Step away from the hustle and bustle of the holiday season to a simpler time at the Monadnock Center for History and Culture on Saturday, Dec. 21 at their monthly Hearth Cooking Saturday event.
This open house program features cooking demonstrations of Christmas dishes prepared over on open fire. Guests will enjoy tasting the prepared treats and learning about the history of the Christmas holiday in America. The mill house will be open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Admission is free.
The day’s menu includes root vegetable and ham soup, Christmas cookies, English gingerbread, lemon minced pie, carrot pie, and Plum Pudding.
Costumed interpreters, Samuel and Nancy Prescott, will their share 1830s Christmas traditions and tell you about daily life in the mill house, a foreman’s home for the Phoenix Mill. Samuel Prescott was an overseer at the Phoenix Mill, a large textile complex that once stood at the corner of Main and Grove Streets in downtown Peterborough.
The Phoenix Mill House is located directly behind the Monadnock Center’s main building at 19 Grove St. in Peterborough.
Hearth Cooking Saturdays are drop-in programs. Stay for just a few minutes or linger by the fire enjoying samples of the historic recipes and good conversation.
To learn more about this and other Monadnock Center programs, visit MonadnockCenter.org or call (603) 924-3235.