#colonial cooking

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Colonial cooking: REAL apple fritters

by Lindsay Weiss posted in Life & Home Growing up, I thought apple fritters were the donut-like things you bought in the grocery store bakery. They were 99.9% fried dough with a little hint of apple essence. They were delicious, but there was no real apple in them. So last week, when my daughter asked... Read more » Want to get the full story? Click on the headline above. And thanks for reading the BabyCenter Blog. http://bit.ly/1Ss0jxv

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Fireplace Cooking: Baking Bread

Fireplace Cooking: Baking Bread

Fireplace Cooking

With record-breaking cold spells of late we’ve had a fire every night. I love how cozy and homey a roaring fire makes the dark winter evening. Each January, I experiment with fireplace cooking. Being a recovering history major I am very interested in historic foodways. This past New Year’s Eve we cooked a leg of lambon a vertical colonial cast iron spit. I have also recently put…

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The Art of Cookery was an extremely popular cookbook in colonial America. This copy is from the 1777 printing, but it was first printed in 1751. One of the things that made this book unusual was that it was the first cookbook in America to have the recipe for "ice creem", which would end up being one of George Washington's favorite desserts.

Records show that Martha owned a copy of this cookbook, and when Washington was President records show that he purchased several items for ice cream serving, including an ice cream serving spoon, two "dble tin Ice Cream moulds", "2 Iceries compleat", 12 "ice plates", and 36 "ice pots" (which is basically a small cup designed for ice cream--in colonial times it was more liquid than it is now).