cooking - Kirsten Hammerstrom

Camp Life

Posted on August 22, 2014 by kittycalash

When I don’t manage to write up the weekend quickly, I risk forgetting what happened, which is sad when you think how intense the time can be. This past w...

Food/History/Research

More historical receipts online

Posted on August 22, 2014 by kittycalash

Thanks to the American Antiquarian Society and a grant from the Pine Tree Foundation, you can now access digitized versions of the AAS’s manuscript recipe...

Events/Food/Living History/Reenacting

Boil and Not Too Much Trouble

Posted on August 19, 2014 by kittycalash

Camp cooking can get old. Stew, sigh. Bread, sigh. Cheese, sigh. Apples, sigh. Don’t get me wrong: all of the above are delicious today. Historically, New Engla...

Fail/Food/History/Living History/Reenacting

Measure for Measure

Posted on August 12, 2014 by kittycalash

or, a boiled Flour Pudding in two tries. Alone in my Ossining ca. 1962 kitchen, I decided to tackle Amelia Simmons. The first task seemed to be to establish mea...