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To make buckwheat cakes mix buckwheat flour, one egg, some salt, nutmeg,
and water. You cook them for a few minutes and then they are ready to eat.
(Madeline) |
| I love cooking, don't you? Well colonial girls had to help their mothers
from when they were two. Women had to grind their salt, nutmeg, and other
spices. They churned their butter too. They also had to make their own flour
or take the wheat to a mill. (Abigail K.) |
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Did you know that many colonial women died because their dresses caught
fire? (Alaina) |
| Nutmeg comes from a tropical island. It was hard to get and very expensive.
To get the nutmeg into a powder you had to get a grater from the tin smith
and rub the nutmeg against it. It smells good!(Lisebeth) |
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We cooked buckwheat pancakes with jelly. We used a whisk made out of twigs.
We stirred batter. We pounded salt. We learned how to know when the oven
is hot enough to bake stuff in it. (Abigail C.) |
| I liked to grind the salt with the mortar and pestle. I whisked the eggs
10 times to make the buckwheat cakes rise. (Kyle K.) |
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We baked cakes in the open hearth and it was really, really fun. We had
to mix a lot of things together like spices and homemade salt. (Tyler) |
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