Heart to Hearth Cookery

Yesterday at ALHFAM, I was able to watch a kiln being fired to 1860 degrees F. with over a hundred reproduction pieces of Moravian redware being fired. The potter at Old Salem Museum and Gardens, Mike Fox, described how he made reproductions for use at the museum by interpreters and molded redware pieces. In the T. Bagge: Merchant store, I found reproduction molded baking dishes. Mike explained that he had copied an original mold to use to reproduce them. I asked if I could take a picture of my baking dishes and the mold he used in his shop in The Single Brothers House and was thrilled when the picture was taken. What was more exciting was taking a collections tour at the Horton Museum Center today and finding the original mold and an original molded redware baking dish.