1840 Farm - Living and writing in a circa 1840 New England Farmhouse with three generations of my family

Top Recipes of 2021

Well, 2022 is officially underway even if I feel like I am still trying to tidy up the final pieces of 2021. It’s a footrace and I am focusing on putting one foot in front of the other as we wrap up last year’s projects Read More

Onion Dip

This recipe came about in a purely pandemic sort of way. During a time in the late spring/early summer of 2020, restaurants were closed, and the local businesses were struggling to pivot. A local restaurant wholesaler found themselves with goods to sell and no restaurants Read More

WWII Navy Sugar Cookies

Every year, I spend the weekend after we have shipped out the last basket from The 1840 Farm Mercantile Shop making cookies to send across the miles to our friends and family. It’s a tradition that started a few years ago. As a person who spends a lot of Read More

Brown Butter Shortbread Biscuits Ted Lasso Style

I didn’t expect to fall in love with Ted Lasso, but I did. He’s that guy you meet in some innocuous way. You like him well enough but don’t expect to like him so much. Yet you just can’t help yourself. He’s just so, well, Read More

How to Make Brown Butter

First things first, butter is delicious. Straight out of the wrapper, it has the ability to add wonderful flavor and silky texture to anything I add it to. It’s so versatile and is one of the ingredients I do my best to always have on Read More

Farmhouse Favorites

Over the years, we have received many requests to share our favorite products with you. These products are what we like to call our Farmhouse Favorites and we just added a special section to our Mercantile Shop to share them with you. They have been put Read More

The Respair Basket

During the last year, my creative pursuits in the kitchen and the studio provided me with a way to keep my hands and mind busy, to make new things while the world felt so shaky around me. It was my respite, a moment to immerse Read More

Penny Lane’s Gotcha Day

Today is Penny Lane’s gotcha day. On this day six years ago, we woke up early for a drive to The Animal Welfare Society in West Kennebunk, Maine. We hoped that we would find that the puppy’s face we fell in love with online would Read More

Mini Egg Chocolate Chip Cookies

This recipe comes from the humblest of beginnings. It wasn’t a thunderbolt moment when I had an unbelievably delicious idea to try. It wasn’t from reading one of the treasured cookbooks in my collection. No, it was because I was disappointed to open a new Read More

Introducing 1840 Farm’s The Notebook

Look closely and you’ll see the first glimpse of something you’ve been asking about for years. I kept telling myself that we’d work on it someday. No, it’s not the calendar or the wheel cipher. It’s the first glimpse of The Notebook, a publication full Read More

Sourdough Brownies

Weather wise, we’ve had an odd week. We had sunny days with warmer than usual temperatures for March. I liked those a lot. We also had days with temperatures that barely made it to the 20s with winds clocking in at more than 50 miles Read More

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