- Cherry Pie for George Washingtons Birthday, Feb. 22nd
The day is set aside to celebrate George Washington's birthday and other presidents President Washington was actually born on Feb 22 Thought go on and bump this thread on cherry pie in honor of George Washington Make one today or make one on Feb 22nd In any case, Happy Birthday to our great president George Washington
- April 28 National Blueberry Pie Day | Foods Recipes
In cookbook, "Appledore Cook Book" published in 1872 by Maria Parloa, there is a recipe for blueberry pie She also used blueberries in an English trifle called "Appledore Puddding" Maine's state dessert is Blueberry Pie made from wild Maine Blueberries For National Blueberry Pie Day, make a blueberry pie and enjoy this delicious fruit
- Banana Cream Pie Day | Foods Recipes
About pie, custards creams bananas The oldest recipes we find for banana pie in an American cookbook were published in the late 19th century They employ sliced bananas, not banana cream custard [1880] "Banana Pie "Slice raw bananas, add butter, sugar, allspice and vinegar, or boiled cider, or diluted jelly; bake with two crusts
- Carrot Pudding | Foods Recipes | American Civil War Forums
Carrot Pie, circa 1880s 1 pound carrots 1 tablespoon butter 1 2 teaspoon salt 1 cup sugar 1 2 lemon, zested and juiced 3 eggs 3 cups milk 1 piecrust, unbaked "Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Peel the carrots and cut them into rough cuts Boil them until tender, about 10 minutes, and then strain them by rubbing through a sieve Add the butter while the carrots are still warm, then the salt
- Where did all the wood come for musket stocks come from?
Any good hard wood could be used, which included sugar maple, red maple, cherry, apple, pear and sometimes ash and butternut (for southern rifles) French muskets followed the walnut trail as did most others, but Austrian rifles (Lorenz) could sometimes be made of elm and some German and Belgian rifles had beech stocks
- Confederate Flags in Wartime Photographs - American Civil War Forums
Warfare has changed over the past 150 years and few people today fully understand what the Regimental flag meant to the Civil War soldier Thousands of soldiers gave their all protecting these flags from capture With that said, original wartime photographs showing Confederate flags are
- Spielberg Lays Bare the Ugly Politics of Emancipation
[Cross-posted from DeadConfederates com] Expired Image Removed Smithsonian com has a long feature by Roy Blount, Jr on the making of Spielberg's Lincoln, in particular the way it challenges common tropes about the 16th president The film focuses on Lincoln's efforts to pass the 13th
- Mixed Dishes - Jambalaya | Receipts of the Blue Gray
(from The New Household Receipt Book, by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, 1853) Ingredients: 1 brown or white fowl rice a piece of ham pepper and salt for seasoning Instructions: Cut up, and stew until half done, a fowl, brown or white; then add rice, and a piece of ham well minced; this must be
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