Terrific Tuesdays: Cooking & Baking

Terrific Tuesdays return to Renfrew Museum and Park! Re-imagined as a more in-depth experience designed for elementary and middle school-age children, this popular program for families is being offered as a four-part series in 2022.

Learn about life on our historic Pennsylvania German farmstead by visiting four of Renfrew’s historic features: Pennsylvania German Foursquare Gardens, Milk House, Summer Kitchen, and Fahnestock Farm. Students will participate in an immersive farmstead adventure with special activities inspired by the authentic stories found in our collections, buildings, and landscapes. Families may choose to attend one, some, or register for all four farmstead adventures.

September 27: Cooking & Baking

Ever wondered how early families like the Royers and Fahnestocks prepared their meals? Join Renfrew’s farmers on this very special adventure as we learn about cooking and baking in the nineteenth century. First we’ll visit the 1815 Royer House kitchen, furnished with authentic cookware, tools and utensils from the period, then step inside the relocated 1814 Summer Kitchen where we’ll be able to handle reproductions, try out moving the hearth crane and trammels over a cold hearth, and peek inside the bee hive bake oven as it finishes heating to the perfect temperature for our baking activity! We’ll roll out pre-made pie crust dough, choose either apple or cherry filling, then with the help of our grown-ups bake our mini pies to a golden brown inside the oven*. Once they’re cool, adults and kids can share the tasty snack they prepared together. Yum!

(*Renfrew’s bake oven is heated by burning wood with open flame and gets very hot. Only museum staff is permitted to stand immediately next to the oven, open and close door, insert/remove items, etc. Not recommended for those with gluten, dairy, or fruit allergies.)