Timbrell Cockburn Cunha - The Blog

  • Colouring the Georgian Era

    by Trisha da Cunha
    If you are looking for something to do while staying at home, I created a free colouring book that you can download! Tag or send in your finished colouring pages and maybe we will have an old fashioned colouring contest. Download HERE and enjoy!

  • Recreated the Martha Washington Bathing Gown

    by Trisha da Cunha
    This has been on my sewing bucket list for quite a while now, it is Martha Washington's bathing suit dated to 1767-69. 

  • Testing 18th Century Gingerbread Recipes

    by Trisha da Cunha

    I will be doing a gingerbread seller impression at an upcoming event, so I thought I would test out a couple of 18th Century gingerbread recipes and see which one I liked best to make for the event.

  • A Brief Essay on Tea Drinking in the Eighteenth Century

    by Trisha da Cunha
    By the eighteenth century, tea was already growing in popularity. In 1706, Thomas Twinning opened ‘Tom’s Coffee House’, and was one of the first ...

  • 18th Century Hot Chocolate

    by Trisha da Cunha
    With the cold weather finally upon us, there is no better time to dry some 18th century hot chocolate. Sadly, as we have been quite busy, we have...

  • Real Marmalade, the Portuguese Way

    by Trisha da Cunha
    Marmalade as we know it within North America and Great Britain isn’t quite the same as that consumed around the world. In fact, the citrus based ...

  • The Basics of Being a Fop

    by Trisha da Cunha
    I haven't written about this subject in a while, but I have a few posts lined up about fops, beauty recipes and military hairstyles. There actual...

  • The Secrets to 18th Century Beauty Recipes

    by Trisha da Cunha
    In today’s post I will be sharing with you some period recipes and their modern equivalents. Some of them translate very well into this time period, such as the pomatum, where the ingredients are still known to be safe. Others however, had to be updated as we know that lead is not a safe product to use (although they were aware of that at the time and yet, continued to use it, sometimes even to cover up the damage that the lead caused their skin).

  • Testing an 18th Century Chocolate Tart

    by Trisha da Cunha
    I recently decided to try an 18th Century receipt for a chocolate tart, and I am glad I did because it was better than any similar modern recipe....

  • How to Make an 18th Century Sugar Cone

    by Trisha da Cunha
    Today we will be sharing with you our method for creating a period sugar cone and the best part is that you can make it in one of your reproduc...

  • Styles and Methods for Preparing British Military Hair in the Revolution

    by Trisha da Cunha
    Today we will be continuing our blog series about hair (and makeup) from the 18th Century and will be going into the hairstyles worn by the...

  • Powder Puff Comparison

    by Trisha da Cunha
    I thought I would do an interesting experiment comparing period reproductions of both a silk and feather powder puff. If you are interested in pu...