1785 in 2023; A New Year?

 It's true, we will be celebrating a new year and with new years, typically comes new resolutions.  I love a New Year's resolution and often participate in them.  This years resolution of mine will be going back in time...Poldark time.  I am a new fan of the series Poldark, Downton Abbey and the Gilded Age.  For me, that period in time, in this case 1785,  was all about survival.  I've always wondered if I could have survived in that time. If we run out of milk today, we have several options: 1)  We can hop into our cars and go pick up a gallon. 2) We can stay in our cars and have the store employee bring it out to us or  3)  Probably the most foreign to Poldark's day, we can have the store deliver the milk to our home.  Sounds insane when I think about how the Poldarks and other villagers of Cornwall survived the winters waiting for a shipload of fish!  I recently purchased, The Unofficial POLDARK Cookbook.  As with Downton Abbey, I am curious what they are eating with no Kroger nearby as a safety net.  Everything is either grown or killed in which I can do neither. 

 One of my favorite movies is Julie and Julia.  Julie Powell took one year to cook every recipe in Julia Child's cookbook, The Art of Mastering French Cooking.  So taking a page out of Julie Powell's book, I thought it would be fun to work my way through the Poldark cookbook.  There are 85 recipes in the book, to my husband's delight,  so my challenge will be one recipe a month for one year! (If I am surviving, I'll soldier on through 2024)  Can I survive?  Follow along with me on this journey beginning Jan 1st and let's go back to 1785 in 2023!