Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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This was such a fun video to film... with an obvious caveat (made in the video itself) that I only have a cold and was therefore barely unwell... Which is also though the reason I had the energy to film this! I find the whole practice so interesting, and I hope you learn something too!

Further Reading:
Girl's Own Paper (1880-1881 annual).
Convalescence in the Nineteenth-Century Novel: The Afterlife of Victorian Illness by Hosanna Krienke
Find Convalescent Recipes here: victorianvoices.net/topics/cooking/invalid.shtml

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