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Primary
Source of the Month
A page from Mary Randolph, The Virginia
House-Wife, Washington D.C, 1824 (Facsimile
reprint, University of South Carolina
Press, 1984).
CONTENTS
"Smokehouses"
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"Smokehouses" by Michael Olmert
Summertime,
in the eighteenth century, was no time for
eating fresh pork. The oppressive heat that
made quick work of humans in the Middle
Atlantic colonies also turned the choicest
cuts of meat into Petrie dishes of corruption.
The day a pig was slaughtered, it was cooked
and eaten . . . A frosty month, especially
December, was the proper time for pig butchering,
salting, and smoking. It's a tradition documented
to medieval times.
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Primary
Source of the Month:
Page from The Virginia House-Wife
In
the eighteenth century, all cooks had
to learn food preservation techniques.
Young girls learned both cooking and preservation
skills from their mothers and other female
relatives. By the third quarter of the
1700s, many cookbooks and domestic instruction
manuals also provided such information.
This page from Mary Randolph's 1824 cookbook
The Virginia House-Wife offers
"Directions for Curing Beef."
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Teaching
Strategy:
Food Preservation Methods
In
this lesson, students will learn about four
food preservation methods used during the
colonial period—drying, salting, pickling,
and jellying. They will work cooperatively
to identify foods that are preserved in
these ways, and then create an illustrated
booklet describing one type of food preservation..
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Colonial
Williamsburg Teaching Resources for Your
Classroom
Colonial
Williamsburg offers a variety of quality
instructional materials dealing with 18th-century
life, including:
-
Hands-On
History: Lady's Pocket (object kit)
- The Williamsburg Art of Cookery (book)
- If You Lived in Williamsburg in Colonial
Days (book)
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Teaching
News
Constitution Day
Congress has declared September 17th
United States Constitution Day in celebration
of the original ratification, September
17, 1787.The Newsweek Education Program
has teamed with National History Day and
Oxford University Press to bring teachers
a variety of classroom activities to use
in commemoration of Constitution Day. The
activities, along with other recommended
resources, are in a Newsweek ThisWeek Extra!
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Quotation
of the Month
"Waste
not, want not. The less we waste, the less
we lack in the future."
—English
proverb
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