Posts voor Chef’s Special: A Taste of the Collections
This recipe for apple biscuits is found in De Orange Confiturier: gebak-bereider en keukenmeester / Abrah Reynders. Amsterdam: published by the firm Wed. J. van Egmont in 1752. Pages 15-16. The recipe looks fairly simple, but after combining the ingredients, they are supposed to be baked in half butter and half lard. Most people today will […]
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A recipe for making apple compote, from the Handleiding voor het maken van jams, geleien, compotes en vla’s. Baarn, circa 1920. Figure 2, pp. 16-17. According to this recipe, you only need a few ingredients to make a tasty apple compote, as long as you have 20 bellflowers.
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Source: ‘Het leerboek der fruitteelt’ / A.M. Sprenger. Zwolle: Tjeenk Willink, 1948. Figure 6, pp. 52-53. This section describes the shapes of various apples and pears. The textbook was used for many years for teaching in Wageningen.
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Pomologia / Johann K.H. Knoop. Leeuwarden: Abraham Ferwerda, 1758. Plate 7 Coloured engraving. The image is from the book ‘Pomologia, dat is beschryvingen en afbeeldingen van de beste zoorten van appels en peeren’. The front page of the book bears the signature of A.M. Sprenger, so this copy probably belonged to Professor Sprenger. The plates
From the ‘Soete Gulderling’ to the ‘Soete Kroon’ Read More »
Testing a beet thinner from 1955. Despite the huge increase in the use of machines in agriculture, manual labour still remained essential for all kinds of work, as can be seen in this picture from 1955. The photo was taken by A. Moens and displays workers thinning beets on the farm of C.J. de Rijke
Machines or manual work? Read More »
Fordson was a brand name of tractors and trucks manufactured by Henry Ford & Son Inc, and later by Ford Motor Company from 1917 to 1964 in the US and after that in the UK. The tractors were first built in Detroit since 1920. Ford decided to reduce the price of the Fordson after sales
Popular in the Netherlands: the Fordson Read More »
Onze Landbouwwerktuigen; Goes, 1909. The locomobile was a portable steam engine that drove the threshing machine. The locomobile, used here for threshing white mustard crops, is on the right in this photo.
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Brinkman & Niemeijer (Zutphen / Dordrecht). Brinkmann & Niemeijer, Landbouwwerktuigen, Motoren; Brinkman & Niemeijer: Zutphen etc., 1920. By the mid-19th century, it was no longer just the local blacksmith who made, modified or sold agricultural tools. The Netherlands now also counted a number of major trading companies that focused on agricultural mechanisation. For example, the
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McCormick Harvesting Machine Company (Chicago). Amerikaansche Photographieën; McCormick: Chicago, 1900. The photo is from a photo album that dates to around 1900 and includes images of the company’s production halls and employees at work. It reveals how mass production was possible even with limited resources. This is a photo of the first Reaper, a mechanical
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[photos of Lanz Bulldog types]; s.n., n.d. This undated photo book provides an overview of the different vehicles built by Lanz for various agricultural work. The first Lanz Bulldogs were equipped with a hot-bulb engine, a self-igniting combustion engine. It was not dependent on fuels like petroleum and diesel, but could also run on vegetable
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