Extended Hearth Cooking: Bake a Wedding Cake

10:00: 10+ 
1:00, 12+ 

Follow a 19th -century “receipt” for a 19th-century wedding cake! While the cake bakes, we’ll talk about how 19th-century traditions like weddings varied from the ones we know today. We’ll also talk a little about Hepsibeth Hemenway, a Worcester resident and Nipmuc woman who became well-known for her delicious cakes. Ingredients will include: flour, butter, sugar, eggs, nutmeg, mace, molasses