See open hearth cooking at the Monadnock Center for History and Culture on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Monadnock Center’s annual fall Hearth Cooking series kicks off with a day looking at foods the 1830s mill house family could forage from the surrounding landscape and the ways foods could be preserved for the winter months.
Visitors can try various dishes made from period recipes using authentic historic techniques and equipment. The day’s menu includes pickled beet-root, sauerkraut, gourd soup, hasty pudding, and beehive oven bread.
Hearth Cooking Saturdays are held once a month from September to December in the Phoenix Mill House, an 1830s mill worker’s home. Located behind the Monadnock Center’s main building (19 Grove Street), the Phoenix Mill House is an historic house that interprets daily life in a New Hampshire mill village in the early years of the industrial revolution.
Hearth Cooking Saturdays are open house programs- stop by for a few minutes or stay longer enjoying good conversation by the fire. Admission is $3 for adults and includes admission to our museum exhibits in the main building. Children under 12 are admitted free of charge.
For more information about this and other programs, visit the Center’s website at MonadnockCenter.org or call 924-3235.