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William’s World: To Butter and Beyond

July 23rd, 2012

Just as in the time of William Penn, the work was never done, and so too do we find our fourth post in regards to Dairying! Our first posts covered the Read More

17th century, agriculture, animals, butter, cheese, cow, cream, export, historic site, history, museum, Pennsbury Manor, period clothing

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William’s World: We’re So Cheesy

July 9th, 2012

We’ve recently been discussing just how important dairying was, first as a career for the idyllic milkmaids and as a country business that was transported into towns (resulting in a more convenient, but poorer Read More

16th century, 17th century, agriculture, animals, Bucks County, cheese, country life, cow, curds, dairy, historic site, history, museum, Pennsbury Manor, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, reenactors, volunteers, whey, William Penn

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William’s World: Hi-Ho the Dairy-O!

June 13th, 2012

“My cow is a commonwealth to me… for she allows myself, my wife and son for to banquet ourselves withal.” ~ Food in Early Modern England A while back, we posted Read More

17th century, 18th century, agriculture, animals, Bucks County, butter, buttermilk, cheese, country life, cow, dairy, dairying, farming, father's day, gardening, historic site, history, milk, museum, Pennsbury Manor, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, whey

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William’s World: Ode to the Springtime Milkmaid!

April 26th, 2012

The Milkmaid, Jan Vermeer, 1657-8 I really don’t like to milk cows. I can’t stand to churn butter. I know this is a shocking admission from a so-called history Read More