Create It Yourself

Daily DIY/CIY projects related to Food, Craft, House Restoration, Plumbling, and many more interesting Projects. Follow us now. 

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Free Range Chicken Picatta

Homegrown chicken is a go-to ingredient on our homestead and, of all the amazing ways to prepare it, this mouthwatering dish and its zesty (freshly squeezed!) lemon sauce is our favorite.

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The Art of the Vintage Picnic

James Beard declared that

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18th Century Cornbread

As the population in western Europe exploded during the latter half of the 1700's, wheat became an important export commodity for the mid-Atlantic colonies. It was a natural progression for

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Making Beeswax Candles

How to make beeswax candles from our tin candle molds available here -

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Leaven 18th Century Bread

This is part 4 of our bread series where we start to investigate leavening, leaven, sourdough and yeast. This is getting more complicated by the second.

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Hard Tack

Bread Part 1 - Ship's Bisket AKA Hardtack - from our 18th century cooking series at Jas. Townsend and son.

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What exactly is Farm-to-Table?

Farm-to-table.. what exactly does that mean? Here's a little overview the way people want to eat today.

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Timber Canoe Burn

The first step in our journey to make an Early American Dugout Canoe. Special thanks to Erik Vosteen for his help and expertise on this project!

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Standing Crust

In this video we cover how to make a beautiful standing crust for historical pies.

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1682 Cheesecake

n this episode we make a wonderful cheese tart from a 17th century cookbook. For this recipe see our cooking blog at http:savoringthepast.net

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The Freshest Breakfast Sausage (1808 Recipe)

We have another very special episode today! Marie Schultz, from Genesee Country Village & Museum in Mumford, NY, shares with us a very simple but absolutely delicious recipe for fresh pork sausage. Marie is a long-time historical interpretor at the village. For today's episode, she draws upon Hannah Glasse's 1808 book

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Artisans Spotlight – Scátháin; Object Makers & Craftspeople

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Strong Beer vs Small Beer

We are joined once again by Brian Nagel, Brewmaster at Genessee Country Village & Museum. In today's episode, he discusses the differences between small beer, table beer, and strong beer in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Cheers!

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Arranging Beautiful Farmhouse Flowers

Arranging Beautiful Farmhouse Flowers | Perennials | Farmhouse Gardens | Potager Gardening

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Making Fantastic Doughnuts

Special guest, Michael Dragoo, joins us once again as we make a wonderful doughnut recipe from the 1805 American edition of Hannah Glasse's cookbook,