Hearth Cooking Programs at Windsor Historical Society!
Second Saturdays Open Hearth Cooking with Becky Hendricks

We’re cooking up something for everyone this fall and you can join the fun! Open hearth cooking expert Becky Hendricks offers three “second Saturday” programs in the historic Strong-Howard House this fall. Participants prepare sumptuous dishes over an open fire and in the bake oven under Becky’s experienced tutelage, then sample each other’s creations and take home their leftovers. Learning never tasted so good!

Sign up now as programs fill very quickly. Preregistration is required. Each program is limited to 6 participants. Ages 12 and up. Max 2 participants per family. (Note: your registration date determines the order in which you get to pick amongst the selected dishes, so register early!) Cost for programs: $65 per person plus estimated $10-15 food costs.

This fall’s monthly programs include:

Saturday, September 9, 11 AM to 4 PM, Historic Foodways from the Colonial Garden.

Explore historic garden bounties while working with foodways expert Becky Hendricks over an outdoor

fire! Selections include cabbage sallet, parsnip fritters, Pepy’s sallet of cold roast chicken, and more.

Saturday, October 14, 11 AM to 4 PM, Pies, Puddings, and Tarts.

Choose between apple pye, bread pudding, Cheshire pork pye, chicken pye, cranberry taert, Marlborough pudding, pear taert, and pompion pye.

Saturday, November 11, 11 AM to 4 PM, Everything but the Turkey.

Choose between sherried sweet potatoes, sauced apples, carrot pudding, onion pye, wild

mushroom pye, sweet potato biscuits, creamed celery with pecans, and apple-currant relish.

More information and registration at: windsorhistoricalsociety.org or 860-688-3183.       

The Windsor Historical Society, founded in 1921, invites visitors to explore the people, places, and events that have shaped Windsor for over four centuries. The Society’s museum and research library is located at 96 Palisado Avenue (Route 159) and is open Wednesday through Saturday from 11 AM to 4 PM, with house tours at 11:30 AM and 1:30 PM. General admission to the library and historic houses is $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and students and free to children under 12 and WHS members. Visitors are free to browse the museum store and exhibit galleries at no charge, thanks to generous support of the Town of Windsor.

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