Cinnamon Tea Cakes from 1796 |How to Use an Earthen Oven|
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Let's make tea cakes in our wood fired oven. Today's recipe (or receipt as it used to be called) comes from the first cookbook published by an American!
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These tea cakes are easy to make and are a fun way to experience food history. Please make them at home! Below you will find the recipe translated into modern instructions from the original. During this week's chew and chat on Frontier Patriot we are sampling some locally blended teas at our town's tea shop ^_^ !!!
Tea Cakes (American Cookery, 1796, New York)
1 & 1/8th cups of sugar
1/4 pounds of butter, softened
3 & 1/3 cups of flour. I used whole wheat flour
2 eggs, whisked
0.5 cups of sourdough starter
^ OR one 5 gram packet of dry yeast + 0.5 cups of warm water if home grown yeast is not available
The zest of 3 oranges
1 tablespoon of cinnamon
In a bowl combine your flour, sugar, cinnamon and orange zest. Give it a good mix then pour in your wet ingredients the butter, eggs and yeast. Mix till smooth. Set the bowl aside in a warm place to rise for 1 hour. Preheat an oven to 350 degrees. Once an hour has passed gently knead the batter and place on a well buttered pan. Shape them like you would with cookie dough. Let the tea cakes rest for 10 minutes before baking. Bake for 15 minutes.
Tea is beautiful
Will definitely try it ! Sounds delicious!
I see that you've made the recipe smaller basically that's a recipe for a large amount similar in its asking of the same amount as a pound cake pancake used to be a pound of sugar to a pound of everything else pretty much that's what it was called a pound cake here we see that they put a pound of sugar to a half a pound of butter and 2 lb of flour the amount here would probably be enough to probably feed more than 20 people or more than a hundred 200 worth of those little tea cakes maybe I'm wrong and it's closer to 2000 to 1,000 tea cakes it's hard to tell.
When I have an oven that works I will try it.
You’d cook high heat items like bread right after the ashes were removed, then cakes or pies, then cookies or biscuits, perhaps a stew, milk puddings after that, then the last cook could be drying herbs, fruit, or stale bread. The early settlers didn’t waste anything, even heat in an oven. Truly remarkable this channel is to let us catch a glimpse 🙂
Yes! We have a wood fired pizza oven and while it doesn't work exactly the same (you don't remove the wood, for one), we also pretty much follow this pattern! Pizza first at around 350 degrees Celsius, then bread or focaccia at around 220, then roasted vegetables or a stew for meal prep at around 180, and then finally toasting croutons and bread crumbs at around 90. It's fun!
I much prefer when there is no music at all. So much more soothing and relaxing to watch 😊
I've been wondering for a bit how that outdoor oven works! Fascinating! Thank you. This is one of the best channels on RUclips!❤
Me too! I said the same thing!
Always love when you pair food with history. An absolutely beautiful house and kitchen. And lovely orange-infused tea cakes.
Oooo someone got to bake in the oven at the Buldoc house!! ❤❤ im so jealous! Need to bake some more bread in the fall! Love the Sunday morning tea time asthetic with the music playing, Justine and Mr Geoff having a morning tea time together. Two thumbs way up! 👍 👍
Hey Mike, if you want, you can use the beehive oven again at the fall encampment. Your bread last year turned out great!
Looks great! Takes meal prep to another level. Can’t forget to heat up the oven! ❤
I finally got time to watch your wedding documentary…. Loved it 😍 😍😍
Aw thank you for watching it!!! I'm glad that you enjoyed it.
Where can I watch the wedding documentary???
@@lauragriffin6214 a production company called Believe+ made it. It's available here. It costs $2 to watch if I remember correctly. www.believeplus.com/browse?case=2
@@EarlyAmerican Thank you!!🙏
That house is gorgeous! And those tea cakes look amazing. I had no idea that the outdoor oven had to 'burn' for 5 hours. I thought 1 or 2 would have been plenty. I'm glad I learned the truth of the matter. 😅
I think, it's one of the reasons, communal baking was a thing - at least in European villages.
With the amount of time and fuel needed, it makes sense to bake everyone's bread and cake in the same big oven.
@raraavis7782 Yeah, that would make sense. I think we had those here also. At least we should have.
Yes! They would have one bake day, maybe on Saturday to bake for Sunday and the coming week. They would start with whatever needed the hottest oven and then as the oven cooled off cook things that needed cooler and cooler temperatures.
Everything about this video is lovely. 💕
Tea cakes and warm tea on a not-so-humid Sunday afternoon? Yes, please! There's a part of me that really wishes we had a national "tea time" like the English do. One can dream, anyways… 😋 Another excellent video, you two! Thank you, as always! 😊
that's treason, Loyalist! 😁
@@iraqvet87 HA! The only kind of loyalist I am is a tea loyalist! 😆
The quality of this video is 10/10!! I love the new environment and lighting... you're skills are outstanding❤
So interesting how you heat that oven. Thanks for teaching me something new!
For some reason it’s easier and homier to watch you cook in your regular setting
Beautiful flower path!💕🦋🌻
Yes! It really is a lovely wild garden!
The tea cakes look scrumptious. The house is lovely.
It's an absolutely ingenious way to make an oven. That was technology back in the day.
As a traditional catholic this will be on my bucket list. Absolutely beautiful and thank you for sharing. Wonderful video, now I want an outside bread oven. Lol
What a beautiful house..you are so lucky to be enjoying all the wonderful things you get to do Justine..❤
Your shoes are adorable. ❤ I love them. You must be a genius to be able to decipher those old receipts. I'm lost when I read them.
Thank you!!! I've had them for 10 years. They've seen a lot of miles
These sound delicious. What's funny is....this past Friday evening, I mixed up dough for snickerdoodle cookies, went to put the first batch into my oven. That didn't happen since right before my very eyes I watched the bottom heating element in my oven surge, spark, and then melt through itself in one little spot. 🤦🏻♀️😳 I quickly searched online if they could be microwaved and discovered that I could smash about 4 of my cookie balls together, microwave for 50 seconds, and Voila! - a snickerdoodle tea cake is born. So not exactly old school, but it was tasty. 😁 And maintenance in my apartment complex changed out the element yesterday and I baked the rest in the oven as normal cookies. 😁😍😋😋😋
Love this video very much! So beautiful. You and Ron are truly wonderful in the way you share history with us!
I've been wondering too!! Thanks for letting me know!
Justine you were so beautiful in your wedding dress💝Congratulations to you and Ron. You are so sweet together ❤️❤️🙏❤️
My favorite episode so far
Thank you Tess that means a lot. I wasn't sure how this one would be received as it's at the museum that I work at rather than my cabin. I'm relieved!
I love that you did a video there! The kitchen, dining room, bread oven, flower garden, I loved it all!
Thanks for letting us into that lovely house. The use of the oven is very interesting.
Someday y’all need to do a video of how to build those ovens and what type bricks to use.
Wonderful video. Great to have a variety of styles of presentation. Keeps your creativity flowing!
I love it i love this pretty recipe and this lovely video.
Thank you so much
I love what you've done with the cabin😊
Thanks for explaining the outdoor oven, I've been so curious! The teacakes look delicious!❤
Great show today! I can't wait to taste the tea cakes, they look delicious. The house was gorgeous and your tea set is so beautiful. Thanks
I love the history you two share with us. Such a beautiful home you are in. I do love your cabin the best
Beautiful home. How fun to have gotten to use today!
@@scrapykat3028 and still love the cabin most.
Very interesting...you adapt so easily to your surroundings,skills Justine skills!!!😁
Me and my wife have never tried tea cakes before,we would like to try them. The oven looks nice like the appreciate the history lesson on the old houses! Me and my wife like history of old houses! If the old houses could talk the stories behind them. Glad to se Jack again.Rebecca and David Back.
Well you look cooler today. I watch your episodes to get ideas for outdoor cooking and they work out well so far. Thank you for sharing.
I would so love to spend a couple of weeks visiting Ste. GGenevieve! ❤
The tea cakes look delicious 😋🤤. And seeing the house that you're in is simply beautiful. I wish that I'll go to St. Genevieve, Missouri someday.
Fresh ingredients, yummers!!!
Thanks!
Thank you! ❤
They look so yummy yummy I love anything with cinnamon in it
BEAUITFUL HISTORICAL HOUSE!!!! Do take care. Fl.
Really enjoyed listening to it, the history of the old days of drinking tea and cake
Such a lovely home. My family lives near you. I really hope I have time to visit next time. 🙏
Beautiful Settings 😊
Hi Justine, I have been a fan of both your channels of Early American and the Patriot. I want to personally say thank you for bringing american culture to those of us who can't afford to go and see it for ourselves. I wish you and Ron the best and I look forward to seeing more videos like this in the future! (p.s. great choice of Piano music during your cookng segment!!!) Again, always delighted to watch your videos and see the history of food come to life. Thank you!
I love the setting such a relaxing video ❤
I always wanted to know how those outdoor ovens worked and held Heat thank you for another great video blessings to you and yours
WOW to see how much work went with just preheating the oven I can’t even imagine! Just goes to show how very much we take for granted now a days! 😮 ALSO I LOVE your pretty pink bonnet in this video 😊👒🤗
Beautiful scenery and loved the house . Thanks for sharing.
Loved the tea video , I think I would enjoy the lavender teas . The mint chocolate sounds Delicious too!
Justine thank you so much for the modern recipe great addition for your viewers!
The tea cakes looks amazing and delicious. Thank you so much Justine for the recipe. Beautiful house.
LeMeilleur means TheBest 😊 it is a beautiful home!!!
wow! i didnt know they had a Zester tool back in then. I always wondered what other kitchen tools they had.
fantatstic to an old fashion house without a modern day oven in the kitchen as the real oven old fashion oven was outside like the olden days to prevent house fires and over heating indoors. also neat that there was no air conditioner yet somehow everyone remained ok without it
Awesome video, appreciate y’all.
I always learn something new from you two! Im back home to NJ after 26 days in California getting a home sold. In bed with the flu...appreciate the diversion that your videos give. Cheers! 🎉
Your ability to bring history to life through the flavors of these cinnamon tea cakes is simply enchanting. It’s as if each bite carries the essence of a time long past, allowing us to experience the warmth and simplicity of 1820 in the present day. And I am Floating Village Life, Hit follow and let's explore together!
LOVE THE HOUSE THE TEA CAKES LOOK DELICIOUS ❤😊
Justine...you must have the patience of a saint bc I'm an old bag...and I can't abide handling such a wet dough. Just something about it stickin' all over my hands...even the thought of it...makes me super cranky!
This video was so calming to me. Thank you for sharing.
I imagine this is what it would be like if computers, the internet and this platform existed back in 1820! So neat!
I'm interested to know much more about the ingredients in a historical sense. For example- how common were they in a typical household for that time and how much effort or expense was required. I did see a healthy amount of cinnamon used for this but it would've been very expensive no?
Love your videos and the recipes you follow. It's interesting that the ovens used to be like our modern traditional pizza ovens. Hope those tea cakes taste yummy! 😋❤
Looks delicious, Justine! Have a glorious and blessed week! xoxo
That house is beautiful. What a treasure. ❤
I clicked in to the video too quickly and accidentally skipped a bit. First thing I saw was “Once dead, remove the ashes” and I got real concerned til I went back 😹😹😹
Wow ❤😍😍 old is gold ✨️ 👌 from colombo sir lanka 🇱🇰
Congratulations on your marriage.
Thank you!
The house is beautiful. JUSTINE YOU BRING IT TO LIFE. have a blessed sunday.
Love the new scenery 😮😊❤ love this vlogs 😊❤
Great channel!Love all your content.
I wondered how this type of oven worked. I thought maybe there was something underneath keeping everything hot. I learn something new everyday!!!!
Beautiful house and the flowers to what a great video thank you ☺️
Awesome 👍
Wow ! I loved this one!! Not my grandmothers tea cakes but I want to try this one for sure! Thanks so much and please keep making these wonderful videos!
Blows my mind how they would do this for parties or weddings!
Thank you for slowing the 21st C down a bit to catch our breath with music and history. I so enjoyed listening and learning about your area.
love the new kitchen--hope you get to use it often--it fits you perfectly...dts/usa
the homes look a lot like the old homes in Louisiana (Nachoditches)...dts/usa
Thank you for taking us in a field trip! I really enjoyed.
I love all of this so much! I would love to dress in period clothing and help. I actually hand sewed a regency era dress that would fit the occasion. 😊
I was curious about the oven you use occasionally, because there never seemed to be any smoke or chimney to it. Thanks for showing it. I really wish we could come and visit, but just getting too old to travel that far. It looks lovely there. Enjoy you all.
I was wondering the same. So neat how those old ovens work!!!! Is it just made of clay and brick?? Very cool 😎
Oh i've been wondering for a while how that works. Thank you for showing us
Cool 😀
Owww lovely teacakes justine
These look so good! I am so thankful for modern ovens. I don't think I would had been a great cook if I was born and raised in those times😅
Born and raised in St. Louis and I had no idea this was so close to me. Only an hour away!
I'm in St Louis allllllll of the time! Hi neighbor! Kirkwood especially. I love Kirkwood.
As always a fantastic video! I love your pink dress...it so much gives a beautiful highlight to your rosy cheeks! Very becoming on you J!
Oh thank you!!
You won't believe it, but I found in a store in the city where I live (not my hometown) a sweet hat like yours, in white color
Those tea cakes look good! Nice property there as well. Don't see that often in the videos.
LOL, someone's iPhone got a text message at 5:24!
Those are fine-looking tea cakes ! I am sure your hubby will enjoy them with a cup of tea. Blessings.
I bet you could make delicious pizzas in that oven!:) Though perhaps not 1820s style pizza Wink. Looks like one of those pizza ovens.
Damn, I'm fresh out of fugar.
😂❤
I also wondered how the oven worked. They must of cooked as much as they could at one time. Stays hot for 5 to 7 hrs, wow amazing.
Thanks for teaching how to use the outdoor oven. I was so surprised to see you had to warm it up for 5 hours first!
They do look good and simple! Will have to try... once we're out of the heatwave. Right now baking doesn't appeal. 😅
Those look delicious Justine. My grandma used to make tea cakes by the dish pans full. She also made homemade bonnets similar to yours, some with tails and some without.
It only takes two hours to heat up the brick oven I get to use, but a whole lotta wood.😊
For a moment I thought you were cooking at your new property. I know you two will fill it with cool old school furniture and appliances, but must importantly, with love and good memories.