Colonial Cooking: Marmalade
Learn to make a 1700’s marmalade recipe in this installment of Colonial Cooking,
Greenwich Historical Society
Colonial Cooking: Pattypan Soup
The hearth was the heart of a colonial home. It provided people with warmth, light, and most importantly, food. Almost everything a colonial family ate would have been prepared on the hearth. In this mini-series, I am going to show you how I make some of my hearth cooking staples. Please note that not all … Read more
Colonial Cooking: Fairy Butter
The hearth was the heart of a colonial home. It provided people with warmth, light, and most importantly, food. Almost everything a colonial family ate would have been prepared on the hearth. In this mini-series, I am going to show you how I make some of my hearth cooking staples. Please note that not all … Read more
Colonial Cooking: A Primer
The hearth was the heart of a colonial home. It provided people with warmth, light, and most importantly, food. Almost everything a colonial family ate would have been prepared on the hearth. In this mini-series, I am going to show you how I make some of my hearth cooking staples. Please note that not all … Read more
What’s in a Name? — Greenwich
Towns and streets follow very similar naming conventions, falling, as they do, into the same twelve categories detailed in my article, “What’s in a Name? — Street Names.” In Connecticut, the vast majority of towns take their names from places in the United Kingdom. Greenwich, Connecticut, is named after Greenwich, England. In this article, we … Read more
What’s in a Name? — Connecticut
Have you ever wondered where the name “Connecticut” comes from? If you read through my article “What’s in a Name? — Street Names,” you might determine that Connecticut is a Native American name. But what does it mean? Who chose it to be the official name for our state? What we now call Connecticut was … Read more