Jane wrote a letter to her sister Cassandra saying that she wanted to join her on her trip to Bath, but didn’t want to inconvenience their hosts, so she would fill up on bath buns for breakfast ...

On the Block For sale: 18th-century homes with original beehive ovens Find charming details from the past in these Marlborough and Stow homes.

The Easy-Bake oven might be the most widely recognized cooking toy ever made. But it's just one chapter in the century-old history of working toy ovens. We've cooked up a few examples of the Easy ...

To complement the restored Germanic bake oven and cooking hearth of the kitchen, New Hanover Historical Society members recreated an authentic 1850’s era kitchen garden on the eastern side of ...

There’s nothing quite like the cozy, comforting taste of baked macaroni and cheese. It’s the perfect combination of crea ...

Most Germanic houses built in Southeastern Pennsylvania in the 18th and 19th centuries had bake ovens; it was almost a requisite for Pennsylvnia Dutch dwellings. When kitchen stoves replaced ...

A few rooms of the Goundie House in downtown Bethlehem have been nearly gutted in search of their original construction and more precise evidence of family life in the early 19th century community.… ...

A woodburning fire heats the inside of this replica of an 18th-century-style clay oven that Justin Cherry uses to bake the bread. Known as a beehive, ovens like this were commonplace in households ...

Cherry, who researched 18th century foodways in a fellowship at Fred W. Smith Library at Mount Vernon, explains that similar ovens were common in the colonies and in New France.