Using recipes from certain periods of American history, she chronicles her cooking and consuming on her blog, Four Pounds Flour.

Ms. Lohman said she had cooked and eaten as a 19th-century domestic servant, and subjected herself to a day of drinking like a man in colonial America, where daily consumption apparently made modern drinkers seem like lightweights. She found historical sources that said adult males at that time typically drank a half-pint of liquor a day.

Her drinking day followed accounts that detailed a series of eye-openers that included whiskey, hard cider and a hot toddy all before noon. Ms. Lohman was drunk in the morning and hung over by 1 p.m. After more hard cider, the posts on her blog became sloppier — she left her spelling errors intact, for authenticity — and she fell asleep by late afternoon. She quit drinking by dinnertime, for her liver’s sake.

Other posts on Four Pounds Flour chronicle unusual early dishes, such as a 1665 recipe for ice cream, which was flavored with ambergris, or sperm whale discharge.

“I found it absolutely revolting,” she recalled.

During the experiments, Ms. Lohman’s blog readers occasionally chime in with helpful information based on their family meals.