Here are photos of the goodies everyone enjoyed during the August 6th
Fireside Feasts workshop out at Wyckoff. Not to mention there was
a movie afterwards! And it was “Ratatouille.” HUZZAH!
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First, we made Washington Cake, using a receipt from the manuscript
cookbook of Catharine Rapelye Wyckoff, wife of Peter Wyckoff, who was
the great-great-great-great-great-grandson of the original inhabitant
of the Wyckoff farmhouse, Pieter Claus:
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Next, we used a receipt from the Ashfield Family manuscript cookbook
to make Queen Cakes. This book was kept while the family lived first
in New York and then in New Jersey from the 1720s to the 1790s.*
According to the OED (Oxford English Dictionary), queen cake is
“a small currant-cake, usually heart-shaped.”
Ready for baking:
Hot from the bake kettle and ready to eat:
*The Ashfield manuscript has been published by the New Jersey Historical
Society under the title Pleasures of Colonial Cooking.
