Coffee, Chocolate, Tea, Spices, and Many Other Items too Tedious to Mention: 18c Imports into Philadelphia
This show-n-tell program details the coffee, chocolate, imported and patriotic teas, spices, sugar, salts, peppers, food colorants, isinglass, hartshorn, gum dragon and Arabic, leavenings, oils, pickles, sweetmeats, syrups, jellies, rose- and orange-flower waters and many, many other items that were part of our nation’s imported foods. A hand-out is supplied.

Interesting Kitchen Items of the Eighteenth Century
This PowerPoint presentation identifies many of the items found and used in an English colonial kitchen. A hand-out is supplied.

Isinglass, Trotters and Hartshorn (Jellies!)
A show-n-tell program about gelatines in English colonial America. A hand-out is supplied.

Sugar: from Harvested Cane to the Table
This PowerPoint presentation deals with the sugar making process. We begin with pressing the juice from the cane, explaining and illustrating the many steps and the equipment needed to do this. The different kinds of sugars will be discussed along with their packaging, export, marketing and uses in the home. A vocabulary hand-out will be given.

Sweet-meats, Sugar plumbs, Suckets, Comfits (and Other 18th Century Sweets)
This show-n-tell presentation focuses on the diverse selection of ‘sweets’ that were available in English colonial America. A hand-out is supplied.

Colonial Chocolate
In this hands-on workshop participants make and consume several dishes made from period receipts (recipes) featuring chocolate as it was imported into colonial America.

Packaging in the 18th Century: what came in what?
This PowerPoint presentation explores the somewhat bewildering world of packaging products for shipment and sale. A hand-out is supplied.

The First Thanksgiving - Plimoth, 1621: Myths, Legends and Facts
This PowerPoint presentation details the myths, legends and facts of the ‘first’ thanksgiving. A hand-out is supplied.

Eighteenth-century Colonial English Foodways of Southeastern Pennsylvania
A show-n-tell program illustrating some of the many foods we ate, with emphasis on seasonality. A hand-out is supplied.

Exotic Spices of the Eighteenth Century
A PowerPoint program illustrating the various spices imported and used by our English colonial ancestors. A hand-out is supplied.

Figgy Pudding: “Now bring us some figgy pudding, Now bring us some figgy pudding, Now bring us some figgy pudding, And bring some out here.”
Popular lyrics from 'We Wish you a Merry Christmas.' This program will cover just WHAT a figgy pudding actually is. Also available as a hands-on cooking program.

Hands-on Hearth Cooking Classes are available. Contact Deborah to discuss your needs.

NOT FOOD RELATED, BUT CAREFULLY RESEARCHED AND AVAILABLE FOR PRESENTATION:

Clothing the Common Sort: What did our Laboring English Colonial Ancestors Actually Wear?
This show-n-tell program explains the clothing of laboring English colonial people with emphasis on the common sort: children’s, women’s and civilian men’s working clothes in the third quarter of the eighteenth century.

The Clothing We Wear, Its Reasons, the Order it goes on, or Why Do I HAVE to wear all this stuff?
This program is tailored to your organization or site. It explains the ‘why’ of eighteenth-century English colonial clothing so staff and volunteers better understand the clothing of the time and avoid making common mistakes. A hand-out is supplied.

The Common Pin
PowerPoint program. A careful look at the straight pin, its importance, uses and the misconceptions about pins in the eighteenth century. A hand-out is supplied.

Colonial Pastimes for Children
What WAS the day like in the life of an eighteenth-century English child? A show-n-tell presentation that covers the daily life of colonial children. A hand-out is supplied.