Homespun Cuisine, Health, Romance, Etiquette. Raising Children and Farm Animals This wonderful book is a reprint of ""Our Own Book"" first published in 1888. Over 600 Victorian era food recipes including Boiled Bullock's Head, Economical Veal Soup, Beef Balls, Frizzled Beef, Knuckle of Veal, Brooklyn Cake, Good Girl's Cake, Railroad Cake, Isinglass Jelly, Gruel, Calf's Foot Jelly, Invalid Apple Pie, Hasty Pudding, Flannel Cakes, Queen Pudding, and Fried Mush. Make your own barn paint, indelible ink, ginger beer, shaving soap, waterproof glue, cologne, violin varnish, and more. How and when to...

Janowski Gardens is proud to present this cookbook filled with healthy farm-fresh recipes from our farm in Elmira, New York. Every recipe includes at least one ingredient that is grown in our garden. Our vegetables, fruits, and herbs can help you eat sensibly and stay healthy - and they taste GREAT, too. Enjoy our innovative, yet simple and easy to prepare recipes. The Janowski Family has been living and working in Chemung County, New York since coming to America from East Germany (Prussia) in 1873. This cookbook honors their emigration, assimilation into the United States, hardiness, and...

This sheet music book is perfect if you enjoy a Victorian themed holiday season brimming with elegance and gentility. Wonderful old holiday songs include "Christmas Bells," "Merry Christmas Polka," "Dear Old Christmas Story," "Santa Claus Galop," and many more written between 1853 and 1885. Sixth in a series of historic American sheet music books. 80 pages.

A beautifully reprinted special edition book by Clay W. Holmes with a new appendix by Diane Janowski. Historian Holmes first published this book in 1912. He shared reports from witnesses, Confederate prisoners first person accounts, the story of the great tunnel escape, the importance of John W. Jones, and the notorious living conditions in the camp. Diane Janowski is the current Elmira City Historian and keeper of the most accurate list of Confederate dead in Elmira's Woodlawn National Cemetery.

A beautiful special reprinted edition of "Zim's Foolish History of Elmira" by Eugene Zimmerman. This book was first published in 1912. This new edition includes a foreward by Diane Janowski.

The Victorian era was a time of refined sensibilities. Parties and social gatherings provided opportunities to display one's status and refinement. Central New York was no exception. Young Edward Sayre was invited to lots of parties.