Colonial cooking

As promised, here’s a recap of my trip to Colonial Williamsburg with American Heritage Chocolate! I drove down on Thursday afternoon and got settled into the hotel. We stayed at the Williamsburg Lodge, which is the same place we stayed when Matt, Mazen and I took a trip here a few years ago! It was...

The Williamsburg General Store in Williamsburg, Massachusetts, where I worked for a summer during college, is a favorite stop on the old two-lane highway from Boston to the Berkshires. Now refashioned for tourists, the store has an ice cream shop, a wall of penny candy, hundreds of kitchen gadgets, and a bakery where customers line up for fresh-baked breads, cakes, and Wrapples, the signature pastry rolls stuffed with apples and cinnamon and glazed with sugar. They're like apple pies…

Colonial Cooking: Making Sam Fraunces' Carrot Cake — Fraunces Tavern® Museum

Now that I’ve made the former first lady’s peach preserves, I needed some bread to enjoy it! I chose this recipe, again from the Martha Washington’s Booke of Cookery for the fun e…

This 1892 recipe for Composition Cake is lightly crackly on top, with a delicate crumb, and just the right combination of spices and raisins.

Vintage Cooking From the 1800s - Poultry by Angela A Johnson

August 8 2015—Tiffany was roasting coffee beans in the Armoury Kitchen.

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Step back in time with our guide to Cooking Oatmeal in a 19th Century Hearth. Experience the nostalgia of preparing this classic breakfast dish using traditional methods reminiscent of yesteryears. Learn how to recreate this vintage culinary adventure and savor the hearty simplicity of oatmeal as it