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The focus of this past week’s final Fireside Feasts workshop at Wyckoff was the one-pot dish. Take a meat or fish, put it in a kettle with a vegetable or two, add spices, stew the whole for several hours, and you’ll have a meal for today, tomorrow, and maybe even the next day. There’d be [...]

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Well, this summer’s Fireside Feasts historic cooking workshop series out at The Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum here in Brooklyn has come to an end. This past week’s final session, which focused on one-pot dishes, was another rounding success. Everyone dined on delicious food and enjoyed some mighty fine company. My thanks to all who attended, assisted, [...]

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At this week’s session of Fireside Feasts out at Wyckoff, we’ll be preparing a dish I’ve wanted to do for a long time. We’re gonna jug a hare! Or, rather, jug a rabbit, as that is the available animal. (and yes, there’s a difference*) So, I contacted a vendor at my local Farmer’s Market, we [...]

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I’ve been diligently working on plans for the fourth and final Fireside Feasts workshop out at Wyckoff this coming Thursday. One of my tasks has been hunting down and purchasing all the various ingredients we’ll need. Most I’ve found at local supermarkets, but a couple were a little more illusive, namely saffron and dates. They [...]

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It’s just arrived, all the way from jolly ol’ England. My latest acquistion, purchased on e-bay. What is it? A simple, yet remarkable, little nutmeg grater. HUZZAH! So, of course, I just HAD to try it out: According to the seller, it’s an antique, dating “probably” from the 1820s. It’s made from a coquilla nut, [...]

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real cool relief

Summer has finally arrived here in NYC. June was cool and rainy. July was cool, but not so rainy. Then August arrived, complete with its typical heat and humidity. We even had an “official” heat wave when temps hit 90 and higher on four straight days. yikes. Hence, I’ve tried to think cooling thoughts in [...]

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I was asked recently about the spice cardamom. Now I’ve not used it often, if at all. I haven’t really noticed it in too many historic receipts, either, although I’m sure there are a few. Cardamom, native to India and China, belongs to the ginger family. It was imported into Europe sometime during the 11th [...]

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Check out this video of a goofy conversation about food blogging, featuring Anthony Bourdain and Steven Shaw (incidentally, both of whom have such blogs), sitting street-side here in NYC. Yes, I’m one of the “poor misguided souls” who took “sage” Steven’s class, but also, the woman he describes as “an expert on historical hearth cookery” [...]

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I’ve been nose-deep in historic cookbooks the past few days, searching for just the right receipts to use for the next session of my Fireside Feasts program out at Wyckoff. The focus will be one pot dishes, so I’ve been looking at potted this and that, hodge-podges, pottages, hutspots, even plain ol’ “soopes.” Then, as [...]

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Several people have asked me for specific directions on how to make Mrs. Lydia Child’s Raspberry Shrub from The American Frugal Housewife (1833). Since summer is waning fast and berries are becoming scarce, I reckon I better do it now! First, here again is Mrs. Child’s receipt: Raspberry Shrub Raspberry shrub mixed with water is [...]

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