Root House TV

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Welcome to Root House TV! Our video series shows 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!
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​Hosting a Tea Party
​1860s-Style

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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​Trying Popular Foods
​from the 1860s

​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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​Trying to Bake a Pie
​1860s-Style

​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!