[Red Badger]

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

[Red Badger]

[mairdie]

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

[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.

[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.

[mewzilla]

🍒 Cherry bounce bump! 🍒

[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

[Political Junkie Too]

And I bet the gift shop at Mt. Vernon is still selling cherries from the cherry tree that little George chopped down when he was a child.

-PJ

[NH Liberty]

I LOVE this story!

Thank you SO MUCH for posting it.

[Sirius Lee]

Just because he chopped down the cherry tree doesn’t mean he let it go to waste.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Those are mine. Sorry. Was running from the cops at the time. Long story.

[Tucker39]

If the method of preservation of those cherries was much like the canning of food which came into use 100 years later, with mason jars, etc; then part of the process was to bring the foodstuffs to 212°+ in a canning vessel of boiling water. I believe that high temperature would have killed the life germ in those cherry pits, and that when they are planted the won’t germinate or grow.