Genesee Country Village & Museum is conveniently located South of Rt 90 in Le Roy / Mumford, New York. Video by Rena Goff of Merrymeeting Archives LLC.
You can even help in the kitchen!!
or make cheese…
From the category archives:
1800s
Climb down the stairs to the Evansville Historical Foundation’s pioneer root cellar in Evansville, Minnesota to see refrigeration before the electric refrigerator.
From the book, “Five Acres Enough” by R. B. Roosevelt, 1869 …Sold…
…written near the end of the Civil War:
The first necessity…was to have a churn, and to obtain this I
stopped in at one of the numerous stores in and near Fulton Street,
where agricultural implements are sold. I inquired falteringly if
they had churns for sale, not being certain that these came
under that designation, and a good deal confused at the mass of
curious implements and wonderful pieces of mechanism which were
scattered about….
A journey to Ohio in 1810: as recorded in the journal of Margaret Van Horn
East of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
“At last we stopt at Mansfield at an Inn kept by Philip fits ( a little f). We found it kept by 2 young women, whom I thought amazoons– for they swore & flew about “like witches” they talk & laugh’d about their sparks &c &c till it made us laugh so as almost to affront them– There was a young woman visiting them who reminded me of Lady Ki Spanker–for spring from the ground to her horse with as much agility as that Lady could have done– They all took their pipes before tea…Their manners soften’d down after a while & the appear to be obliging & good natur’d…”
West of Fannettsburg, Pennsylvania:
“…about 60 rods near the top [of the mountain] was excessively steep– We found a house at the foot of the steepest part–A woman & her 2 sons live there & keep cakes & beer…”
“Saturday morn…We have nothing to eat & can get nothing but some slapjacks at a baker’s some distance off, & so stormy we cannot get there…”
“I have learn’d…to eat raw pork & drink whisky…”
“I have such an enormous appetite the whole time, that I have been in some fear of starving…”
Between Laurel Hill and Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
“The landlord & his wife…gave us a great many apples & some cherry bounce…”
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Map shows modern approximation (google directions via walking) of 1810 journey:
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–A journey to Ohio in 1810: as recorded in the journal of Margaret Van Horn, by Margaret Van Horn Dwight, pp. 14-15, 34, 39.
The New York Times selected a husband-and-wife chef team to create a new dish based upon their published 1881 Chocolate Caramel recipe.
