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Christmas Countdown 16 : Suffragette Baked Ham

Madeline McDowell Breckenridge c 1900    As today, 10 December is United Nations Human Rights Day, I have decided to include a classic Christmas food, baked ham,  with recipes from the Suffrage Cook Book. The cook book is  a collection of recipes and domestic tips supplied by women who were also  activists in the Votes for Women campaigns in the United States.  Here is a sample of the tone of this remarkable cookbook  from Julia Lathrop 1858-1932,    an American social reformer in the area of education, social policy, and children's welfare addressed to the "editress"  of the book ....   from  http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26323/26323-h/26323-h.htm Will the following be of any use for the Suffrage Cook Book? Is it not strange how custom can stale our sense of the importance of everyday occurrences, of the ability required for the performance of homely, everyday services? Think of the power of organization re...