FIND & LIST DILEMMA Visit the FREEMAN FARM HOUSE. Look around the Imagine you are making a cake in your bake oven. You lose kitchen, buttery, and storage areas. track of time and burn your cake. You don’t have time to make another cake before your guests arrive for tea. FIND & LIST all of the food items you see. COOKING AND ______________ ______________ ______________ What do you do? ______________ ______________ ______________ EATING! ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ ______________ BIG QUESTION: How did people feed their families? CIRCLE the 5 foods you think people ate the most. CHECK YOUR GUESSES by asking the costumed historians. INTERVIEW DRAW MAKE INTERVIEW the costumed historian who is cooking. Your goal is to find out what people were eating and how food was Find a kitchen where people are cooking. DRAW the items Cook this delicious recipe at home! preserved. you see around the hearth. LABEL everything. Q. What does it mean to preserve food? CUP CAKE Cup cake is about as good as pound cake, and is cheaper. One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, and four eggs, well beat together, and baked in pans or cups. Q. What are the ways that food was preserved in the 1830s? Bake twenty minutes, and no more. – Mrs. Child, The American Frugal Housewife. 1833. Q. How is food preserved now? CUP CAKE Ingredients: Q. What did people eat for breakfast? Lunch? Dinner? Snacks? 1 cup butter, softened 2 cups sugar 3 cups all purpose flour WATCH 4 eggs Visit the TIN, BLACKSMITH, or POTTERY Cream together butter SHOP where cooking tools were made or and sugar. repaired. Watch the tradesman closely. Add eggs, 1 at a time Add flour and stir until combined What are they making? Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Test to make sure it’s done. Cooper Shop Freeman Barn* Museum Welcome! Education Center * Blacksmith* Start of Shop to Old Sturbridge Village Freeman Pasture Walk Sawmill Carding * Gristmill Mill Farmhouse Use this map and list of today’s activities to explore Old Sturbridge Village. Learn about Start of Bixby River Walk House life in rural New England between 1790 and * Kiln Powder House Start of 1840, and how early American living applies to Pottery Pasture Walk Mill Pond Shop* your life today. Talk with costumed historians District and artisans, meet our heritage breed animals, School* Start of see 19th-century demonstrations and witness Vermont Covered Town Woodland Simple Bridge* Pound Walk history coming alive! Machines Shoe * Shop Parsonage* Goods from River Barn the Woods* FOR THE SAFETY & COMFORT OF ALL: Ride* Graveyard • Silence all mobile devices to help us preserve the Bullard Tin Parsonage Law Asa Knight 1830s experience. MAP KEY Towne * Store House Tavern* Shop* Office * Center • Please do not touch or feed the animals – both * Meetinghouse farm and wild! * Drinking Fountains Quinebaug Thompson • Walk carefully on the Village’s natural roadways. River Miner Grant Store Bank Food & Beverage Towne Horsesheds • Please do not walk or climb on fences, walls & Bake Shop Fenno * Old Sturbridge Village Road to Museum Education Old Sturbridge Village * Barn* Fenno Barn* and trees. Restrooms (All ) Fitch House House • Eating and drinking is not permitted in historic Baby Changing Stations & Barn buildings and exhibits. Cider Mill* Printing * • Smoking is not permitted in the Village. Wagon Ride Pick-up* Office Playground * Friends • Tripods and selfie-sticks are not permitted. Stagecoach Ride Pick-up Firearms Glass* Meetinghouse* • Soliciting is not permitted unless authorized A Child’s & Textiles* Small by management. Wheelchair World* Bake Shop & Clock House* Accessible Exhibit Village Scoop* Gallery* PHOTOGRAPHY Early Shopping Lighting Fuller Photography in Old Sturbridge Village is permitted * First Aid/Security/ Telephone Conference Country Bank Lost & Found for personal use only. By entering the museum, Center Kidstory* Beekeeping * Visitor Center* you agree to the use of your image for publicity ATM PARKING purposes. Herb Theatre* Garden Picnic Area * ACCESS INFORMATION Seasonal Museum Store Many exhibits are accessible. See the symbol on Ex rking & Bookshop* the map. Wheelchairs are available on loan at the First Aid/Security it to Pa Visitors Center. Village Café* CONNECT WITH US Oliver Wight Tavern* MUSEUM MAIN ENTRANCE MAKE HISTORY! WWW.OSV.ORG To Route 20 and I-90 Mass Pike OSV787-020817 Stallion Hill Road to Museum Main Entrance.