Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | October 12, 2014

Pair of Sabotieres

IMG_0228-002  A pair of pewter sabotieres are on my work table.  The original sabotiere is on the right and the reproduction sabotiere is on the left.  It is my reproduction that I will use to make the peach ice cream.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | October 11, 2014

Where is the Ice?

IMG_0232-001   Many hands had fun preparing the ice for the Peach Ice Cream in September.  Children have used wooden mallets to break the ice  and are gathering it in wooden firkens to add to the coopered bucket for the sabotiere.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | October 8, 2014

Squash and Cranberry Beans

IMG_0034-001  The freshly picked, hand-sized squash is cut into pieces and the historic cranberry beans in the green stage shelled.  Both are combined in the trade kettle to prepare squash with beans.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | October 7, 2014

For Now and Later

IMG_0033-001   Some of the newly harvested squash ( the size of a hand) has been prepared in rings for drying on the drying rack and some cut up to prepare for now to cook with the beans in the green stage.

 

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | October 5, 2014

Beans in Green Stage and New Squash

IMG_0031-001   My 2014 cranberry beans in the green stage in the wood bowl with freshly harvested new squash (the size of a hand) are next to a basket of dried squash.

 

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | October 3, 2014

Baked Dried Squash Cake

IMG_0032-001   The dried squash cake prepared from pounded dried squash soaked in water with enough  bear grease added to form a cake or small “bread”.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | October 2, 2014

Dried Squash “Cake”

IMG_0030-001  After the pounded dried squash has soaked in water until pliable, bear grease is added and a
“cake” made for baking.  A small amount of bear grease was placed on the stone first.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | September 29, 2014

Soak in Water

IMG_0019-001  After the pounded dried squash is sifted through the grape vine basket, those particles fine enough to pass through the basket are soaked in water until re-hydrated enough to be pliable to form a cake.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | September 28, 2014

Only the Finest

IMG_0018-001  Only the finest of the  particles of the pounded dried squash sift through the grape vine basket into the wood bowl for preparing a dried squash cake.

 

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | September 27, 2014

Grape Vine Basket

IMG_0015-001  The dried squash that has been pounded in the corn pounder is emptied into a grape vine basket to sieve out the larger squash pieces not suitable for the baked squash cakes.

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