June 30, 2011 Last Saturday, the 18th, was my birthday. Being as such we decided to try a new recipe from Fannie Farmer’s cookbook. It’s about time I shared another recipe on the blog, so…
June 23, 2011 Hail last week and strong storms daily this week have left central Iowa very soggy. The constant cloud cover darkens the house out here at the 1900 farm and reminds us that…
June 8, 2011 New piglets are all the buzz at the 1900 farm, and with that in mind, I thought I would take a time out to share on the importance of pigs to 1900…
June 3, 2011 I realize I haven’t given you guys a recipe from the kitchen lately, so I will tell you about last week’s Chicken in a Basket. My lovely assistant found this recipe and…
May 27, 2011 I haven’t posted in over a week and for that I apologize. We have been busy here at the 1900 farm, the last of the corn went in, and all three spring…
May 17, 2011 We are well into the swing of things now at the 1900 farm, but I wanted to take a minute and show a few updates from previous posts. I am happy to…
May 13, 2011 This week, farmers in Iowa have taken advantage of the warm, dry weather to get their corn planted into the ground. Here at the 1900 farm, we’re doing the same. We’re not…
Anatomy of a recipe: How to bake a 1900 coffee cake
Posted on May 7, 2011
May 7, 2011 You may have noticed that some of the recipes in my previous posts are not exactly what we think of in 2011 as complete. As we prepare dinner out here on the…
April 14, 2011 Sarah Gillespie Huftalen writes in her journal on Tuesday April 3, 1877, that, “it is very muddy.”[1] She goes on to comment, “Mud, Mud, Mud.”[2] The Gillespie family lived in central Iowa…
March 23, 2011 What a winter it has been! We have been busy on the 1900 farm, with visitors coming out to dinner, and creating plans for an exciting new season on the farm. Some…
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