When I baked bread for last week’s Fireside Feasts out at Wyckoff, I wanted to use ale as part of the requisite liquid. Now, ale, or any kind of alcohol for that matter, is not something that I keep around the house (I don’t drink). I had to go buy it. What fun! Yes? Maybe? [...]
Archive for July, 2009
carded by the man, er, machine
Posted in Uncategorized on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
more breakfasts and suppers
Posted in Uncategorized on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On June 25, 1805, William Clark (of explorer team Lewis & Clark) wrote: “I had a little coffee for brackfest which was to me a necessity as I had not tasted any since last winter.” The following year, on February 7, he wrote: “This evening we had what I call an excellent supper it consisted [...]
bread stories
Posted in culinary history, historic cookbooks, historic receipts (recipes), research & experiments, tagged historic foods, historic recipes, Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery on July 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ahhh yes, the bread I made the other day. Well, overall it turned out pretty well. I thought perhaps I let it rise too long the second time, but it didn’t seem to matter. It had great texture and good taste. And, like the other loaves I’ve done using the same receipt, it made for [...]
Fantastic “Feasts”
Posted in Uncategorized on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Whew. Finally, a few moments of down time! Seems I’ve been running non-stop since my last post. I’ve done everything from transport a few pieces of cooking equipment and food supplies out to Wyckoff, to printing up my “Receipts Sheets,” to finishing the bread (more on that later), to cooking up some hasty pudding, and [...]
Knead some dough?
Posted in historic receipts (recipes), modern recipe (!), research & experiments, tagged baking 18th century bread, baking bread, baking white bread, historic receipt (recipe), Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’ll be using bread in this Thursday’s session (July 9) of my Fireside Feasts series out at Wyckoff. So, rather than getting up really early to hit the local market where fresh baked bread is sold daily, I figured I’d make my own. Besides, a couple of months ago, I paid good money to attend [...]
Just what the huzzah is a “HUZZAH”?!
Posted in Uncategorized on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lately I’ve been using the word “HUZZAH!” again and again and…. Obviously, I enjoy employing it whenever possible. But if you’ve been wondering, “Just what the huzzah does “HUZZAH” mean?,” here’s a brief explanation that I posted a few months back: ______________________ “Huzzah” is the 18th and early 19th century equivalent of “Hooray” or “Yippee” [...]
Hear ye, hear ye, read all about it!
Posted in Uncategorized on July 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Check it out! There’s a great article by Helen Klein about my Fireside Feasts historic cooking program out at Wyckoff in the July 3 issue of the newspaper Park Slope Courier and in July’s Brooklyn Family magazine. HUZZAH!
HUZZAH! It’s Independence Day!
Posted in current events, tagged Independence Day on July 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today is Independence Day, the anniversary of that fateful day back in 1776 when representatives of 13 British colonies banded together in Philadelphia and signed a one-page document wherein they declared the right to be free. HUZZAH! On the Glorious Fourth 50 years later, the lives of two of our earliest Presidents came to an [...]
Eggs!
Posted in Uncategorized on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I’m looking for a specific dish in historic cookbooks, I’m often amazed at what I find. For instance, in Robert May’s The Accomplisht Cook, or the Art and Mystery of Cookery (1685), there’s an entire chapter (or section, as he calls it) on eggs. Yep, just eggs! “The exactest Ways for the Dressing of [...]
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