Heart to Hearth Cookery

To make a potato pye

A workshop in hearth heaven!!  That is what it was like at Old Sturbridge Village’s education center.  I was fortunate to be the instructor at a workshop on the use of roots in 17th, 18th and 19th century receipts.  I had the use of three hearths each equipped with a bake oven.  The participants were divided in groups of 4 and each group prepared root receipts (recipes) from each century.  The picture (left) is a 1682 receipt To make a Potato Pye.  The dish is full of  “boyled” Spanish potatoes (sweet potatoes), marrow, “Raisons of the Sun”, dates, “Orangado” (candied orange peel), and Cittern (candied citron). 

This is the first of a series of blog postings on receipts from this workshop!

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