Open Hearth Cooking Learn to cook over an open fire at the Museum's Lippitt Farmhouse. Using 19th-century recipes, participants will prepare a variety of authentic dishes using period techniques and cooking utensils. Participants will learn how to manage a cooking fire while baking, boiling, roasting and frying. Also, the brick oven will be utilized in this session. The instructors for this workshop will be Gwen Miner and Beth Kalkowsky of the Lippitt House staff.
Class is limited to six.
After producing wallpaper, each student will sew a band box. Newsprint will be used to line the boxes. Participants will enjoy their very own band box covered with hand-made wallpaper. The course instructor will be Wendy Weeks, Supervisor of Wallpaper Exhibits and Printer at The Farmers' Museum. Class is limited to six.