Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | May 3, 2020

Pandemic Cooking-A Taste of Hearth Cooking

This is the first post of my experimental archaeology of food during COVID-19 pandemic.  Pictured is my equipment set up on my sidewalk at my house for the receipt (recipe) "Past of Oringes: My Lady Howe's Receipt"

This is the first blog post of my COVID-19 pandemic experimental archaeology of food during the stay-at-home guidelines.  Pictured is my equipment set up on the sidewalk in front of my house for the receipt (recipe) Past of Oringes: My Lady’s Howe Receipt.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | May 1, 2020

Sprinkle with Cinnamon-A Taste of Hearth Cooking

After the receipt (recipe) "To make a Plum-taert" has been baked in the bake kettle without an upper crust then sprinkle with Cinnamon and it is ready for the table.

After the reciept (recipe) To make a Plum-taert has been baked in a bake kettle without upper crust then sprinkle with Cinnamon.  The cinnamon was grated on quickly in this picture as the 18th century dinner was ready to be presented to table.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | April 29, 2020

Baked Without Upper Crust-A Taste of Hearth Cooking

The receipt (recipe) " To make a Plum-taert" was baked in a bake kettle on a burner of hot embers covered with its lid and more embers without an upper crust until done.

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The receipt (recipe) To make a Plum-taert  was baked in a bake kettle on a burner of hot embers with embers also on the lid of the kettle without a upper crust.

Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | April 27, 2020

Place in Crust-A Taste of Hearth Cooking

After the plums preserved in sugar have been mixed with egg yolks, cinnamon, cloves and melted butter for the receipt  (recipe) "To make a Plum-taert" place them in your crust.

After the plums preserved with sugar have been processed through a sieve and mixed with egg yolks, cinnamon, cloves and melted butter for the receipt (recipe) To make a Plum-taert place them in your crust.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | April 25, 2020

Dress with Egg Yolks, Cinnamon and Clove-A Taste of Hearth Cooking

After the preserved plums have been rubbed through a sieve for the receipt (recipe) "To make a Plum-Taert", dress them with Egg yolks, Cinnamon, Cloves and melted butter.  The sugar that is written in the receipt is not used as the plums were preserved in sugar.

After the preserved plums were rubbed through a sieve for the receipt (recipe), To make a Plum-Taert, dress them with Egg yolks…and Cinnamon, Cloves , and melted Butter.  The receipt has the plums dressed with sugar but this is omitted in the winter as the plums were preserved in sugar.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | April 23, 2020

Rub Through Sieve-A Taste of Hearth Cooking

In the winter for the receipt (recipe), "To make a Plum-Taert", after taking preserved plums from a gally pot, rub them through a sieve.

In plum season fresh plums would be boiled and then rubbed through a sieve for the Dutch receipt (recipe), To make a Plum-Taert, but in the winter plums preserved with sugar and stored in a gally pot are rubbed directly through a sieve.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | April 21, 2020

Take Plums-A Taste of Hearth Cooking

The first step in the receipt (recipe), "To make a Plum-taert", is to "take plums cook them until done".  In the middle of winter when plums are not in season that step becomes to "take" your gally pot of plums that you preserved in sugar when plums were in season.

The first step to prepare the Dutch receipt (recipe) To make a Plum-taert, is to take Plums, cook them until done.  In the middle of winter when fresh plums are not available this becomes take your gally pot of preserved plums that have been preserved with an equal weight of sugar.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | April 19, 2020

Cut in Five Slices-A Taste of Hearth Cooking

 

After the dumpling was boiled in a cloth for the receipt (recipe), "To make a Raspberry Dumpling", take it up and cut it in five slices.  Pictured are the seven slices that were needed to fill the pewter serving dish.

After the dumpling is boiled in a cloth for the receipt (recipe), To make a Raspberry Dumpling, take it up and cut it in five slices, and lay one in the middle and the other four around it.  As you can see in the picture, in order to create the flower-like design to fit my pewter serving plate, the dumpling was cut in seven slices.  A little good melted butter was poured in the dish and fine sugar grated around.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | April 17, 2020

Boil It in a Cloth – A Taste of Hearth Cooking

After the cold paste with the preserved raspberries spread over it has been rolled up for the receipt (recipe) "To make Raspberry Dumplings", it is rolled up and wrapped in a cloth and boiled for at least an hour.

After a cold paste pie crust) is rolled and spread with preserved raspberries and both rolled up for the receipt (recipe), To make Raspberry Dumplings, boil it in a cloth for one hour at least.  Two dumplings were made per this receipt and each wrapped in a cloth and then both wrapped in a yard square pudding cloth.  The pudding bag was tied with a string,  hung by the trammel so the cloth would not touch the bottom of the kettle, and placed carefully into water that was already boiling.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | April 15, 2020

Roll it Up-A Taste of Hearth Cooking

After the preserved raspberries have been spread on the rolled cold paste (pie crust) for the receipt (recipe) "To make Raspberry Dumplings" roll it up.

After a good cold paste has been rolled to a quarter of an inch thick for the receipt (recipe), To make Raspberry Dumplings, roll it up.  This receipt is rolled the same way as if you were making a jelly roll and use moisture to seal the paste.

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