I’ve quite a few photos to sort through that I took this weekend during Deb Peterson’s “Historic Baking Symposium.” I’ll share most of them soon, but I’ve more work to do. Meanwhile, here are several that are ready to go from this past week’s Fireside Feasts program out at Wyckoff. We enjoyed preparing, cooking, and [...]
Archive for August, 2010
this little piggy…became sausage and more
Posted in historic cooking, historic cooking/classes/events, Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum, tagged hog butchering, open fire cooking, pork!, sausages on August 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
butcherin’ time
Posted in culinary history, historic cooking/classes/events, Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum, tagged butchering scenes, food history on August 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I mentioned at one point during yesterday’s Fireside Feasts program that there was a book illustration of a family doing various tasks associated with butchering, including the making of sausage. However, I’ve since discovered it’s in a different book than the one I said. It’s actually in America’s Kitchens, by Nancy Carlisle and Melinda Talbot [...]
this little piggy…vanished!
Posted in culinary history, research & experiments, tagged Dutch Genre Scene, hog butchering, Michiel van Musscher on August 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As usual, I’ve been prepping for this week’s Fireside Feasts workshop out at Wyckoff. It’ll be the fourth and final session, so if you’ve been meaning to partake, but haven’t yet, it’s now or never. Well, now or next year! (8/26, 5-7 p.m.) In any event, this Thursday we’ll be dealing with a typical activity [...]
what’s that, Mrs. B? don’t eat raw veggies?!
Posted in culinary history, historic cookbooks, research & experiments, tagged books on British food history, Colin Spencer, food history, food myths & legends, garden vegetables, Isabella Beeton on August 24, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Apparently, the theory that people in past centuries refused to eat raw vegetables for fear of becoming sick (or worse, becoming dead) began in the mid-nineteenth century. Or, rather, it was true during that time, at least for some people. There were possibly two reasons for this. One was the discovery of germ theory in [...]
about those veggies…
Posted in culinary history, research & experiments, tagged fruits, garden vegetables, historic foodways on August 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I thought I’d share a few tidbits of the research I did as I planned the menu of dishes to be prepared during the recent “Garden Goodies” segment (Aug. 12) of my Fireside Feasts program at Wyckoff. Of course, I consulted various books, including C. Anne Wilson’s Food & Drink in Britain, from the Stone [...]
garden goodies (despite a little rain)
Posted in historic cooking/classes/events, Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum, tagged garden vegetables, historic cooking, historic foodways on August 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It was cloudy all day this past Thursday, and rain seemed imminent. Indeed, it was, for it sprinkled off and on, now and then, and steady was the word by about 4:45. It eventually tapered off, however, and so, despite a smaller group than normal, the Fireside Feasts program at Wyckoff went on as planned. [...]
up next: dishes of the garden
Posted in historic cooking/classes/events, Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum, tagged historic cooking classes, Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum on August 11, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I’m busy with preparations for this coming Thursday’s Fireside Feasts historic cooking program out at Wyckoff. This time we’ll be raiding the garden for our ingredients. And yes, as in past years, tomatoes will be scolloped! HUZZAH! This week’s workshop is one of the remaining two for the year. So if you haven’t yet been [...]
blogs, weddings, & cod fritters
Posted in historic cooking, living history museums, tagged BlogHer, cod, fritters, Plimoth Plantation on August 9, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Saturday night I attended several of the parties that closed out the 2010 BlogHer Conference here in New York City. Of course, food was available at all of them, but one in particular had…drum roll, please…cod fritters! Can’t say I’ve ever seen cod fritters served at a party, or anywhere, for that matter. I don’t [...]
the original gazpacho
Posted in historic cooking/classes/events, historic receipts (recipes), Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum, tagged gazpacho, historic recipe, Juan de La Mata on August 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In good ol’ hazy, hot ‘n humid summers like the one we’re experiencing now (Thursday’s high was a muggy 95), recipes for gazpacho seem to pop up everywhere. The virtues of this tasty and cooling dish are extolled in magazines and newspapers, on TV and radio food shows, websites and blogs, and even in cooking [...]
more photos: OSV pottery & kiln firing
Posted in living history museums, tagged kiln firing, living history, Old Sturbridge Village (OSV), redware pottery on August 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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