Tin Baker for Biscuits
The Lincoln biscuits were place on tins and baked in a tin baker. To obtain the most heat from the fire, the embers are exposed and the hand is used to determine the adequacy and evenness of the heat across the front of the baker.
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Cutting Biscuits
This past President’s Day, I did a program re-creating Abraham Lincon’s “lunch”. John Hay, one of Lincoln’s two personal secretaries, noted that Lincoln’s lunch consisted of a biscuit, a glass of milk in winter, some fruit or grapes in summer. The receipt I chose to prepare belonged to Mary Harlan Lincoln (1846-1937) who married Abraham’s son Robert Todd Lincoln. The biscuits are being cut with a tin biscuit cutter.
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Apples are Roasted
The aroma and appearance of the apples tells you when they are done. Notice the apples on either end have a more shriveled appearance as they have received the most heat. To make the apples more uniform, the end apples could have been moved from the ends to a center position during the roasting process.
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Apples Roasting
The apples roast with the tin roaster reflecting the heat from the fire. With the use of a hand to measure the heat, the distance of the roaster to the fire is determined. The reflective side cooks first so the apples do need to be rotated for even roasting.
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Tin Apple Roaster
Roasting apples in a tin apple roaster is a simple way to produce a flavorful apple. There is no peeling or coring. The whole apple is placed in a reflective tin and there were tin forms that were made just for this purpose.
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Apples
Apples stored in a root cellar or in a cool, dark place where it does not freeze, will keep until February. The main causes of apple spoilage are time, bruises and contact with an apple that has some rot. In my reproduction 19th century tin bowl, the apple to the far left needs to be used quickly.
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Sweetmeat Cone of Ginger-Bread Cakes
The very old term sweetmeat has nothing to do with meat and EVERYTHING to do with sweet. The Ginger-Bread Cakes are held together with an icing made of whisked egg whites, double refined sugar powdered fine and rose flower water. The cone is decorated with candied orange peel and candied violets.
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To make Ginger-Bread Cakes
Reently I prepared Hannah Glasse’s 18th century receipt for To make Ginger-Bread Cakes. They were so well-liked that I am posting the receipt (recipe): Take three Pounds of Flour, one Pound of Sugar, one Pound of Butter, rubbed in very fine, two Ounces of Ginger beat fine, a large Nutmeg grated; then take a Pound of Treakle, a quarter of a Pint of Cream, make them warm together, and make up the Bread stiff, roll it out, and make it up into thin Cakes, cut them out with a Tea-Cup, or a small Glass, or roll them round like Nuts, bake them on Tin Plates in a slack Oven. Treakle is molasses.
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The Pretzels are Ready
With the painting The Baker by Adriaenszoon displayed, I am blowing a cow’s horn as the painter depicted letting all know that the pretzels (arranged on the pretzel hanger) and in the basket and breads are out of the oven. (See the previous post for a closer look at The Baker)
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The Baker-Berckheyde, 1681
The Baker by Job Adriaenszoon (1681) is one of the better known 17th century paintings of a baker with a pretzel hanger selling pretzels. Note that my pretzel hanger (see post Pretzel Hanger) was constructed from this image.
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