Cooking Workshops

Researching and developing cooking workshops is my favorite part of my job. The following workshops were developed for Open Hearth and Woodstove cooking at Historic House Museums. I have listed the recipes that were taught at each of the workshops.

Curious about what a hearth cooking workshop looks like? Here is a short video of one in action.

 

In 2015 I volunteered at Pickering Museum Village to develop and facilitate this workshop with a fantastic group of historic cooks.

• Potato Bannock
• Pounded Cheese
• Glazed Ham
• Carrot Fritters
• Corn Soup
• Rumbledethumps
• Apple and Blackberry Charlotte
• Custard Sauce

All About Chocolate workshop was run at Gibson House Museum in 2017.

• Chocolate Puffs, The Professed Cook, 1812
• Duchess Sauce, The Early Canadian Galt Cook Book, 1898
• Chocolate Pastils, The Cook’s Dictionary and Housekeeper’s Directory, 1833
• Chocolate Cake, Mrs. Rorer’s Philadelphia Cook Book, 1886
• Chocolate Cream Pots, The Art of Cookery, 1758
• Chocolate Tart, The Complete Confectioner, 1800

The Sweet Tooth workshop was run at Gibson House Museum in 2017.

• Apple Pie, The American Frugal Housewife, 1833
• Common Pie Crust, Eliza Leslie’s Directions for Cookery, 1851
• Eve’sPudding, The Cook Not Mad, 1831
• Cranachan, The Scots Kitchen
• Derby Cakes, The Cook Not Mad, 1831
• Ice Cream, Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats, 1828

All About Oats workshop was run at Gibson House Museum in 2017.

• Scotch Eggs, A New System of Domestic Cookery, 1808
• Parkin, Gibson House Recipe
• Cranachan, The Scots Kitchen, 1929
• Soda Bread, The Scots Kitchen,1929
• Vegetable Soup, Gibson House Recipe

Dinner With Grace workshop was run at Gibson House Museum in 2018.

• Roast Chicken cooked on a bottle jack
• Baked Potatoes baked in a brick oven
• Cabbage and Onions, The Virginia Housewife, 1762
• Creamed Carrots and Parsnips, The French Family Cook, 1746
• Tea Biscuits, The Cook Not Mad, 1831
• Apple Pandowdy, Directions for Cookery in its Various Branches, 1849