All posts tagged "recipes"
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21.8K12Business and LaborCracking the History of the Uncommon Common Cracker
Every so often when you’re looking through a book of old New England recipes, you’ll find one that calls for the common...
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16.4K18MassachusettsThe Legend of the Baldwin Apple
So revered is the Baldwin apple that Massachusetts has not one but two monuments to the bright red winter fruit. For many...
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10.7K12Business and LaborWas Fannie Farmer a Good Cook?
When Fannie Farmer approached Little, Brown & Co., to publish her cookbook in 1896, the company made her pay for printing the...
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6.9K13Business and LaborThe First Lady of Connecticut Newspapers, Hannah Bunce Watson
As if caring for five children under the age of seven wasn’t enough for the newly-widowed Hannah Bunce Watson, American revolutionaries needed...
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7.9K16Arts and LeisureCatherine Beecher Reluctantly Shares a Plum Pudding Recipe
Catherine Beecher was the Martha Stewart of her day and, like Martha Stewart, lived in Connecticut (Hartford, not Westport). Harriet Beecher Stowe’s...
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20.5K19ConnecticutThe Rise and Fall of the Wethersfield Red Onion
Every year in Wethersfield, Conn., the local historical society pays rent on an 18th-century warehouse not with money, but with Wethersfield red...
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