Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | January 19, 2014

Tie Them Up

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After the beaten mustard seed and shredded garlic are placed in the hollow created in the melon, put the pieces you cut out into their place again, tie them up.  Linen twine was used to tie the melon piece in place to create the receipt (recipe) To make Melon Mangoes.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | January 18, 2014

Beat Mustard-Seed

IMG_7861-001  After the seeds and inside of the melon has been removed, the receipt (recipe) for To make Melon Mangoes states to beat mustard-seed, and shred garlick, which mix with the seeds, and put in your mangoes.  The mustard seed was beat in the brass mortar pestle and the picture shows the “mix” in the melon.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | January 17, 2014

Inside Very Clean

IMG_7858-001   The next step to prepare the receipt (recipe) for To make Melon Mangoes is to take out the inside very clean.  The pewter spoon for the table was used to remove all the seeds.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | January 16, 2014

Melon Mangoes

 

Take small melIMG_7856-001ons not quite ripe, cut a slip down the side.  This is the first line of the receipt (recipe) To make Melon Mangoes.  I cut the slip like a wedge that will allow the pewter spoon for the table to be used to remove the seeds.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | January 14, 2014

Dragoon-1790

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The largest Laxa family reproduction gingerbread mold used to print the receipt (recipe) To make Ginger Bread was titled Dragoon, circa 1790.  More information about the Laxa family molds and the receipt To make Ginger Bread can be found on recent blog posts.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | January 12, 2014

Happy Rooster-1730

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The receipt (recipe), To make Ginger Bread, was printed with a reproduction gingerbread mold, Happy Rooster, circa 1730, from the Laxa family collection.  (See previous posts for more information on the Laxa family and the receipt To make Ginger Bread.)

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | January 11, 2014

Twins

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The receipt (recipe), To make Ginger Bread, was printed with a reproduction gingerbread mold, Twins, circa 1650 from the Laxa family collection.  The Laxa  family, up-rooted by the political forces in Europe that started with Hitler in 1939, eventually were able to immigrate to the United States in 1968 and supported themselves with their family collection of original gingerbread molds.  (See previous posts for more on the receipt To make Ginger Bread)

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | January 10, 2014

Dust Your Moldes

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When the grated bread, ginger, cinnamon, aniseeds, and claret wine have been combined to a stiffe paste for the receipt (recipe) To make Ginger Bread, the paste is driven thin and printed in the moldes.  Dust your moldes with Cinamon, Ginger, and liquorice beeing mixed together in fine powder.   One of my reproduction Laxa family gingerbread molds, Mini-Madonna (circa 1670) is to the right of the molded gingerbread.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | January 8, 2014

Coming to a Stiffe Paste

IMG_8412-001  The grated stale Manchets, ginger, Cinamon, anniseedes, sugar, and claret are boiled all together in a posnet till they come to a stiffe paste.  The stiffe paste of the To make Ginger Bread receipt (recipe) is now in my red ware bowl cooling.

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Posted by: hearttohearthcookery | January 7, 2014

Claret for Red

IMG_8434-001  The receipt (recipe) for To make Ginger Bread is made red with a quart of claret.  The basic ingredients are bread crumbs, ginger, cinnamon and claret.

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