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Information from Townsends, specifically from a book meant to aid families in where to apprentice their sons. Focus of this livestream is the food trades: baker, butcher, chandler, cooks, confectioners, cheesemonger, and a discussion of food safety and food poisoning in the era.

Things to remember. Salmonella didn't get into chickens until after World War 2, that was a direct result of factory farming, there's different more hilarious food spoilages you need to keep in mind instead. Food preservations were entirely different without common refrigeration. Instead you had potages sealed with fat, you dried and salted shit, you laid your barrels right and your food became seasonal. You buried things. You pickled and brined your foods. You used spices if you got them, onions and herbs from the garden. You cold smoked meat by hanging it in the upper chimney. And you did not have your own oven unless you were a major household, instead you carried your bread to the local baker and rented space in the communal oven.

And so many pies.