hearth cooking - Kirsten Hammerstrom

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...

History/Living History/Reenacting

Petticoat Burns

Posted on February 5, 2013 by kittycalash

You know this site, right? History Myths Debunked examines the stories about the past many like to think are true, and Death By Petticoat is one of the favorite...