Living and writing in a circa 1840 New England Farmhouse with three generations of my family
Velouté is one of the five French mother sauces. It is a roux thickened sauce that is extremely versatile. If you have made a homemade gravy thickened with starch of some sort, you have made your own version of a Velouté. Don’t let the fancy Read More
Before I explain how to make a roux, I should start off by describing what a roux is. Quite simply, it is the combination of culinary starch and fat. The starch and fat are combined, heated, and used to thicken a liquid. Once you understand Read More
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
Thank you for being a member of The 1840 Farm Community. We hope that you’ve always felt welcome at 1840 Farm and that you feel as warmly about us as we do about you. We’ve been working on something new for the past few months Read More
Thank you for being a member of The 1840 Farm Community. We hope that you’ve always felt welcome at 1840 Farm and that you feel as warmly about us as we do about you. We’ve been working on something new for the past few months Read More
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
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
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
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
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
“What is a cruffin?” became a popular question after I posted a photo of the cinnamon sugar cruffins I made last weekend on Facebook and Instagram.
