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more treasure

A couple-three years ago I found this gridiron on eBay: Now, it’s quite similar to those offered by Historic Housefitters and Landis Valley Museum, so it’s possibly just a reproduction. At the same time, however, it’s rather uneven and wobbly and looks handmade, so it may be a bona fide antique. It’s very like these [...]

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picture show

Speaking of the upcoming Fireside Feasts program this summer out at Brooklyn’s Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum, click here to see a slide show depicting scenes from past sessions.* Good company and great food were had by all. HUZZAH! ________________________ *All photos copyright 2007-2009, The Wyckoff House and Association, Inc.

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2010 Fireside Feasts

Yep, it’s still winter, and there’s plenty of snow all over, piled up on sidewalks and at every street corner. Fear not, however. The heat and humidity of summer will be here soon enough! And with that comes another round of my historic cooking series Fireside Feasts out at Brooklyn’s Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum. HUZZAH! I [...]

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A recent purchase through good ol’ eBay. I’d been looking for something like it a long, LONG time. Reminds me of what I used back in the day while at Conner Prairie (when the interpretive emphasis was on life of the 1830′s and not the mish-mash it is today). I love just gazing at it! [...]

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…is the title of the third annual Historic Foodways Symposium, sponsored by Deborah Peterson’s Pantry, to be held Saturday, February 27, 2010. I urge any and all folks who are interested in learning more about the who, what, when, where, why, and how of historic foods (in this case meat), during the 18th Century and [...]

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I mentioned previously that I’m on a quest to find receipts in New York-area historic cookbooks for New-York cake and/or cookies, particularly ones that are not copies from other works. Well, I may have found one. I think. Maybe. Or maybe not. In any event, it’s in the manuscript cookbook of Maria Sanders Van Rensselaer [...]

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In 1837, Eliza Leslie followed up the publication of her highly successful Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats (1828) with the larger work Directions for Cookery in its Various Branches. This new volume contained receipts for a wide variety of dishes and, like its predecessor, went through numerous editions. Although many of the receipts [...]

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Something else that begins to show up in 19th century published cookbooks here in America are receipts for New-York Cup Cake. Yep, New Year’s and now, New York. Before I go any further, we need to look at those two little words “cup cake.” What they do NOT refer to are those small individual fluffy [...]

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“where ya been?”

Howdy. Yeah, I’m still here. Gee, what has it been? Ten days?!? eeegad. It’s amazing how chunks of time can pass by basically unnoticed. It sure flies when you’re…doing other things! dagnabit. There was some personal business, feeling under the weather, then a bit of…well…oh, blah, blah, blah. Excuses, mckooses! My apologies. Now let’s get [...]

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Good, because I have more New Year’s Cake receipts to share! This one is from an 1846 issue of The Genesee Farmer, the first major agricultural journal published in New York. Note the instructions “to roll it thin and cut it in small cakes,” resulting in what we today might call cookies. _________________________ New Year’s [...]

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