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Monadnock Center workshop on Hearth Cooking

Posted on April 4, 2016 (July 18, 2023) by Jessica Gelter

Learn to cook like your great, great grandmother at the Monadnock Center for History and Culture on April 9 when the center will offer a hearth cooking workshop. Workshop participants will work together to prepare a meal typical of the 1830s over the open hearths in the center’s Phoenix Mill House. The workshop will explore

The Bottom of the Barrel

Posted on March 7, 2016 (July 18, 2023) by Sarah Lennon

The Bottom of the Barrel at the Monadnock Center Peterborough, NH- The end of winter was a lean time in the 1830s and wives had to know how to scrape the bottom of the barrel. Learn about cooking at the lean time of year at the Monadnock Center for History and Culture on Saturday, March