A Taste of History at the Open Hearth

Skilled 18th century cook Mercy Ingraham returns to Durand-Hedden for
our perpetually popular open hearth cooking program, which for thirty
years has drawn visitors who are ‘hungry’ for history. Mercy will
reprise that day’s show-stopping fowl-on-a-string, this time, a duck,
and preserved foods from the fall harvest. In addition she will prepare
two of Irene’s favorite teaching lessons -- beaten biscuits using the
reflector oven and Johnny cake, in the Dutch oven, plus seasonal recipes
of her own.
Children will be able to try their hand at old-fashioned cooking chores
like kneading dough and making butter. The intriguing exhibit Where Can I
Mail a Letter, The History of Maplewood’s Postal Service will be on
view.