Root House TV

Welcome to Root House TV! Our videos show local celebrities and modern-day historians putting their skills to the test with an array of 19th century challenges and tasks. We hope you'll enjoy them! While you're here, please consider making a donation to help fund more videos!

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Filmed and edited by Eptá Films

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​Preparing a Meal

Food historians and living history demonstrators Clarissa Clifton and Misha Harp show how a quick meal could be prepared during the 1850s using simple and readily available ingredients like cornmeal and greens.

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Filmed and edited by Eptá Films

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​Hosting a Tea Party

We asked our friends from Tiny Bubbles Tea Bar to come set a table for a Victorian tea party. The challenge? They had to follow strict instructions taken from Mrs. Crowen's American Lady's Cookery Book, published in the 1860s.

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Filmed and edited by Eptá Films

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​Trying Popular Foods

​We asked local food historians to prepare popular recipes from the 19th century. Watch to see what our taste testers thought when they tried dandelion greens, cow tongue and ​oxtail stew, and vinegar pie!

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Filmed and edited by Eptá Films

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Baking aN Apple  Pie

​Lauren Bolden, expert pie baker and owner of Pie Bar, came to the Root House to try baking an apple pie using a recipe from 1845. Oh, and she baked the pie using our 1850s cast ​iron wood burning cookstove. Watch to see how it went!