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  • Learning from Home
    • Cooking and Drinking
      • Drinking Chocolate
      • Make 18th-Century Punch
      • Make an 18th-Century Toast
      • Shrub or Drinking Vinegar
      • Negus
      • Rarebit
      • Kush
      • Sweet Potatoes Broiled
    • Gardening
      • Gardening from Your Pantry
      • Making Rosemary Stem Cuttings
      • Sweet Potato Slips
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      • Design Your Own 18th-Century Kite
      • Make a Whirligig
      • Make a Nine Men’s Morris Board
      • Make a Kite
    • Investigating Primary Sources
      • Make Your Own Battledore
      • Translating the Virginia Declaration of Rights
      • Keeping a Diary
      • Supplies in the Revolution
    • History in the Kitchen
      • History in the Kitchen: Cracknels and Drinking Chocolate
      • History in the Kitchen: Cooked Greens
      • History in the Kitchen: Pumpkin Fritters
      • History in the Kitchen: Peanut Butter
      • History in the Kitchen: Batter Cakes
      • History in the Kitchen: Stewed Parsnips
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      • George Mason’s Pursuit of Religious Liberty in Revolutionary Virginia
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      • George Mason University Student Project: “The Enslaved Children of George Mason”
      • George Mason’s Views Regarding Slavery
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History in the Kitchen: Batter Cakes

History in the Kitchen: Cracknels and Drinking Chocolate

History in the Kitchen: Cooked Greens

Stewed parsnips in a blue bowl on a brown table.

History in the Kitchen: Stewed Parsnips

History in the Kitchen: Peanut Butter

History in the Kitchen: Pumpkin Fritters

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