All posts tagged "recipes"
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21.6K17Business and LaborA Broke Connecticut Housewife Founds Pepperidge Farm
You can be forgiven for thinking Pepperidge Farm was founded by someone like Titus Moody, the old Yankee character who appeared for...
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26.5K12Business 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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20.1K18MassachusettsThe 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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14.5K12Business 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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8.8K13Business 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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10.2K16Arts 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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