Posts About Historic Recipes

Bake the Old-School Way at the Pumpkin Pie Open-Hearth Cooking Class at Landmark Inn

Thursday, November 17, 2016 - 8:00am

By Brandon Aniol, Landmark Inn State Historic Site Educator

Pumpkin pie is perhaps the best pie you’ve never actually made. With Christmas rapidly approaching, Landmark Inn State Historic Site in Castroville has the solution for you. Through May 2017, Landmark Inn’s open-hearth historic cooking classes will explore how common dishes were prepared over an open-hearth fire 150 years...

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From Corn Smut to Mexican Truffle

Tuesday, October 27, 2015 - 8:00am

By Lester Velazquez-Po, Casa Navarro Customer Service Representative

You may have heard about “corn smut”—a parasitic fungus that attacks corn—impeding the normal growth of the plant and its produce. Predictably, many corn growers worldwide destroy the crops affected by it.

However, this seemingly destructive fungus is actually fit for human consumption. In Mexico, it is known...

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Salsa Navarro

Friday, August 8, 2014 - 10:15am

By Georgia Davis, Casa Navarro Site Manager

Casa Navarro State Historic Site recently hosted Salsa Navarro: Historic Cookbook Recipes in the Modern Kitchen. This event was the site staff’s first effort at engaging the public in historic Tejano gardening and foodways. The goal of the interpretive program was to expose attendees to primary resources in the community and have them...

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