From The Pilgrim Garden 2014

Looks like the muskmelons are getting their netting in the the 2014 Pilgrim garden- yipee!
won't be long now!

A Pioneer Garden Day in the Kitchen

To see the photos go here

https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Prairie-Mercantile/857561767602737

Prairie Goodes for Sale

Olde Barnwood Peg Rack

Made from olde barnwood with square head nails for pegs.
7 inches high x 12 inches wide.
Great early look, functional decorating piece.
22.00 plus shipping

Olde & Early Washboard

Made from olde barnwood and rusty corragated tin.
12 inches high x 7 inches wide.

26.00 plus shipping

This sweet box is shown with eating utensils but it can be used for so much more. Use it to display bars of lye soap, candles, salt & pepper shakers. a bunch of dried Sweet Annie . You can do so much with this piece. In the Fall it would look great with some small gourds in it and at Christmas time- greenery.

Made from lightly weathered wood with an old piece of leather strap for the handle it measures 6 1/4 " wide and 3 3/4" high.
24.00 plus shipping

Weathered Olde Cutting Board

This is a great display piece. It can be hung on a wall or used to display faux biscuits or bread, use to display a bar of lye soap or a candle, a bunch of drieds. The possibilities are endless.
6 1/2" wide x 9 " high.

22.00 plus shipping

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This Pioneer is Moving!

Yes we are leaving the house my husband's grandfather built. It is bittersweet for me. We have lived here for 12 years and the house is full of memories for my husband and full of history for me.
The house is made of stone that his grandfather dredged for a local creek making it unique in these parts.
That being said the house is disintegrating both inside and out. It need a new sewer system and with modern county guide lines there is no place to put one, among other things that are just too costly to do.

So we will be moving here:

It is bigger than it looks- 4 bedrooms, big kitchen, big living room and 2 full baths, a full basement and a den , 2 car garage and a double lot. Neighbors only on one side. I can still have a garden and with the double lot it won't feel so "townish" to me.

I am excited and a little sad at the same time.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone.

Make merry but stay safe!

St. Nick's Cabin

This Pinkeep is for sale @ http://primitivepeddler-pilgrimsandpioneers.blogspot.com/
St Nick's Cabin has been sold!

Home Canning- Preserving My Heritage

This year I am canning. It started with a few pints of tomatoes from my garden. Once I heard the lids "ping" I was hooked. I moved on to apples and peaches and then I bought a pressure canner. This photo shows the results a few days ago. I have since canned more.  It has given me a new respect for my ancestral grandmothers, I am happy to carry on the tradition. I feel like I am preserving my heritage- one jar at a time.

Yes, I am home canning !

About 15 years ago I decided to try my hand at home canning. After 6 hours in the kitchen scalding , peeling and, chopping tomatoes, processing them I got a yield of 6 quarts of tomatoes. I decided that for .59 a can I could by tomatoes and vowed never to can again!
Well this year my Pilgrim garden produced a multitude of tomatoes and after giving many of them away I ran across 4 wide mouth pint jars someone had given me. I knew my husband's grandmother's water bath canner was in the storage closet and with all of those tomatoes I caved in. I bought bands and lids, cleaned up the canner and canned 3 pints of tomatoes. Once the jar lids sealed properly I was hooked!

Once I canned those tomatoes 6more pints followed.

Then I decided canning apples would be nice . I went to the produce market and not only got apples but also a bushel of peaches. So the next few days were filled making canned peaches, apple and peach pie filling. Then I remembered Cinnamon applesauce made with cinnamon red hot candy. I have always loved this when made by relatives now it was time to can my own! Here is the recipe:

wash jars and lids in hot soapy water then keep the jars and lids warm in a pan of hot water. Peel. core and slice or chop 24 medium apples, cook apples in 3 cups of water, Simmer for 15-20 minutes until apples are tender. Add tree cups sugar and 3/4 cup of Cinnamon Red Hots candy. Continue to cook uintil sugar and candy is melted. Fill hot jars and process in a water bath canner for 25 minutes, Yields 4-6 pints depending on the size of the apples.

I then decided it was time to branch out and do vegetables and meat dishes so I bought a pressure canner. Today I used it to make stewed tomatoes ( 2 pints). 2 quarts for beef stew and 2 quarts of vegetable beef soup and , of course 4 more pints of the cinnamon applesauce. I think my ancestral grandmothers and my Mom would be proud!

The Pilgrim Garden 2013

The Pilgrim Garden I and flowers are doing so well this year- this is not everything in the garden but it was too hot to take too many pics.

Olde Bunny

Olde Bunny Needlepunch
Olde buuny with water color effect background- edged with fluffy, bumpy yarn-mounted on Rusty candle pan with 4 legs.
Design 4" x 4 1/4" Candles pan 5 1/8 " x 5 1/8 "
32.50 plus shipping
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Spring Bunny Needlepunch

Spring punchneedle mounted on a painted wood.
The piece was coffee dyed and baked and attached to the wood with double faced tape. The wood was antiqued after painting. Has hole on the back side for hanging.
40.00 plus shipping
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Primitive Old Cabin Punchneedle

This sweet primitive punchneedle has a primitive cabin with uneven logs and a big prim sunflower. It is 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" and has been coffe dyed. It is backed with old brown wool and finished with a shaggy wool strip.

40.00 plus shipping

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Christmas Sampler

Christmas Sampler 2

2- Cookies for Santa ( shortbread, caramel and, chocolate)
2- Prairie Cabin Christmas ( Pine, cedar, cinnamon. clove and mistletoe)
2 Spiced Eggnog
5.00 plus shipping

Christmas Sampler 1
2- Prairie Christmas Pine
2-Gingerbread House
2-Christmas Berries- ( spiced cranberry)
5.00 plus shipping( only one of Christmas Sampler 1 available)
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Biography of a Pilgrim

Life in New England: Edward Bumpas arrived in Plymouth as a single man. He lived in Duxbury by 1639 and Marshfield by 1643. The bounds between Duxbury and Marshfield were redrawn in 1643, so it might have been the town line, rather than the Bumpass family, which moved. Edward Bumpass might have run into financial difficulties later in life.He was the recipient of a cow from Marshfield's stock for the poor in 1656.
Family: Edward Bumpas married Hannah _____ by 1631 and had twelve children. She died in Marshfield on February 12, 1693.
Children of Edward and Hannah _____:

• Sarah was born on March 9, 1631/2. She married Thomas Durram in Marshfield on March 31, 1659.There is no further information.
• Elizabeth was born on March 9, 1633/4. She married Joseph Rose in Marshfield on June 6, 1653, and had at least seven children.They both died sometime after January 29, 1710/1.
• John was born on June 2, 1636. He married Sarah _____ by 1671, and had nine children. He died in Rochester shortly before March 7, 1715/6.
• Edward was born on April 15, 1638. He died in Marshfield on April 3, 1693, unmarried. In July 1679, he was whipped for “striking and abusing his parents,” but his punishment was reduced “in regard hee was crasey brained.”
• Joseph was born on February 15, 1639/40. He married Wybra Glass by 1669 and had eight children. He died in Middleboro on February 10, 1704/5. She died in Middleboro on December 27, 1711.
• Isaac was born on March 31, 1642.There is no further record.
• Jacob was born on March 25, 1644, in Marshfield. He married Elizabeth (Banks) Blackmer/Blackmore on January 24, 1676/7, in Scituate and had three children. He died in Rochester before September 5, 1720.
• Hannah was born on April 3, 1646, in Marshfield. She died sometime after March 4, 1672/3, when she was described as “a distracted person.”
• Philip was born in Marshfield about 1648. He married Sarah Eaton by 1686 and had eight children. He died in Plainfield, Connecticut on January 24, 1724/5. She died after Februry 24, 1725/6.
• Thomas was born in Marshfield about 1650. He married Phebe Lovel in November 1679 in Barnstable and had ten children. He died before 1724.
• Mary was born in Marshfield about 1652. She married Daniel Crocker on January 2, 1682, in Marshfield and had four children. She died after his death on February 5, 1692.
• Samuel was born about 1654. He died, unmarried, at Pawtucket on March 26, 1676, fighting in King Philip's War.

Eating at Plimoth Plantation tomorrow

This is the menu this year ( there is also a buffet menu)

Menu

Menu Accompaniments:

• Fall Harvest Fruits and Assorted Nuts
• Relish Tray
• Wood Pressed Apple cider

Appetizer

• Split Pea Soup

Main Course

• Roast Native Turkey with Giblet Gravy
• Traditional Stuffing with Bell’s Seasoning
• Mashed Potatoes
• Butternut Squash
• Steamed White Turnip
• Harvard Beets
• Creamed Onions
• Cranberry Relish
• Hot Crusty Rolls
• Cider Cake
• Ginger Bread

Desserts

• Indian Pudding
• Homemade Pumpkin Pie
• Apple Pie

Adults - $88.95
Children under 12 - $64.95
Couldn;t be a Poor Pilgrim to eat there.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-JxjIVLWC4&feature=youtube_gdata