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The Spirit of the Coffee
byAll of that great eating on Thanksgiving Day sometimes has natural consequences that lead us to seek entirely different recipes for Friday. If we’ve…
Culinary
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Dessert: Send it to Table
byWhat to serve for desert after a Thanksgiving meal? Pumpkin pie, obviously. Unfortunately for the revolutionary-era aspiring chef in America, pumpkins are plentiful but…
Side Dishes: Serve it Up
byYesterday we saw how to roast a turkey according to a popular 18th century cookbook. It wouldn’t be a Thanksgiving dinner without turkey, but…
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Your Meat: Done Sooner or Later
byIt’s the time of year when Americans are musing over favorite recipes for Thanksgiving meals. Everyone has a favorite dish and there are countless…
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Baked Beans and Johnnycake
byAlthough many immigrants to the American colonies enjoyed a richer and more varied diet than they had in their home countries, as evidenced by…
Hearth Cooking at the Ethan Allen Homestead
byThese articles have, to this point, focused on reproducing the meals of our Revolutionary-era forefathers with all of the conveniences of the modern kitchen. …
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A Yankee Doodle Dinner
byMost of us learned the song “Yankee Doodle Dandy” as schoolchildren, and many of us puzzled over the reference to macaroni in its lyrics. …
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A Fashionably Sweet Dinner
byOver the course of time, many fashions change. The hem lines on women’s skirts rise and fall, folks give up hula-hooping for jogging, and…
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Family Dinner: Soup, Molasses Bread & Jefferson’s Meringues
byOne of the best ways to get a visceral sense of what life in the Revolutionary Era was like is to eat the foods…