Early America: 18th-C. Hearth Cooking

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Recommended for grades K - 12

Feeding a family in pre-industrial times took resourcefulness, and hard work. Travel back to the 1700s and experience open hearth cooking over a wood fire. Read a historic recipe, weigh and measure ingredients on kitchen scales, and bake over hot coals using 18th-century tools and techniques. Get a taste of global trade by working with exotic spices and other foreign trade goods brought by New England traders. Tour an 18th-Century store to see how all the ingredients got to America.

Supports NH Frameworks: Language Arts W:OC:1, Social Studies EC:4, EC:5, GE:2, HI:2, HI:4, HI:5

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