Archaeologists Unearth 35 Glass Bottles from the 18th Century at George Washington’s Mount Vernon During Mansion Revitalization, Most Containing Perfectly Preserved Cherries and Berries

www.mountvernon.org ^ | June 13, 2024 | Staff

[Red Badger]

Cherry Cherries Ping!.................

[Red Badger]

[mairdie]

One of my 5th great grandfathers had bottles imported with his name, Sidney Breese, on them:

[Red Badger]

PHOTOS HERE:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/5j82fybakby8wem89hkbm/AHkZyeRJEvjOL4tdwiJwStM?rlkey=8b04pqcperfkfosq1y1qmxiq4&e=1&st=3108zlj1&dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/5j82fybakby8wem89hkbm/AJ0QrGjtV12l4JbK3K1os0w/Bottles%20May%202024/Photos?dl=0&rlkey=8b04pqcperfkfosq1y1qmxiq4&subfolder_nav_tracking=1

[Revel]

And tests will show no radioactive fallout contained in these goods. Something not possible anymore.

[ClearCase_guy]

George and the cherries. Always with the cherries.

[mairdie]

Martha Washington’s Great Cake
Modernized

Take 40 eggs and divide the whites from the yolks and beat them to a froth. Then work 4 pounds of butter to a cream and put the whites of eggs to it a Spoon full at a time till it is well work’d. Then put 4 pounds of sugar finely powdered to it in the same manner then put in the Yolks of eggs and 5 pounds of flour and 5 pounds of fruit. 2 hours will bake it. Add to it half an ounce of mace and nutmeg half a pint of wine and some fresh brandy.

In making the great cake, Mount Vernon’s curatorial staff followed Mrs. Washington’s recipe almost exactly. Where the recipe called for 5 pounds of fruit, without specifying which ones, 2 pounds of raisins, 1 pound of currants, and 2 pounds of apples were used. The wine used was cream sherry. Since no pan large enough was available to hold all the batter, two 14” layers were made and stacked (note: the original was one single tall layer). The layers were baked in a 350 degree oven for 1.5 hours. Should be iced with a very stiff egg-white based icing, flavored with rosewater or orange-flower water.

[Bigg Red]

Very cool.

[Red Badger]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QsTMqUfDDw

[V_TWIN]

WAY off topic but everytime the subject of Mount Vernon comes up I can’t believe the SJWs haven’t threatened to burn down the perfectly preserved slave quarters located on the property......guess it’s a good thing they all failed American history and are dumb as rocks.

[Red Badger]

Canning Ping!....................

[mairdie]

Thomas Jefferson's recipe for ice cream.

[Red Badger]

MARTHA!.................................Slowly I turn...................

[Red Badger]

That is very difficult to read................

[Right Brigade]

When my Grandfather passed away we found old bottles in his barn too,
only they had other peoples names on them.
Mainy Jim Beam and George Dickle

[mewzilla]

🍒 Cherry bounce bump! 🍒

[goodnesswins]

That is written similar to the 1721 copy of the Magna Carta we have...very difficult to read

[mairdie]

An article on wine growing by a 6th great grandfather, Edward Antill, which won him 200 pounds for producing the first acceptable wine in North America from the European vines. It was 50 years after his death before people realized those vines weren't suitable here and they had to develop their own vines better suited to our climate.

An ESSAY on the cultivation of the VINE, and the making and preserving of Wine, suited to the different climates of North-America

By the Hon. Edward Antill, Esq; of New-Jersey, Communicated (in 1769) to the American Philosophical Society

[AndyJackson]

some fresh brandy

Some? How much is some? Is the whole bottle enough?