Time Travel Tuesday At Home - Billings Farm and Museum, Woodstock

Select an area below to learn more about our Time Travel Tuesday’s including fun activities and crafts, videos and educational material.

Activities & Crafts

Lacing Cards
Lacing cards are a fun way to learn how to sew or to practice your skills. You can make your own with following these instructions.

Guess the Artifact Let’s play what is it? See if you can guess what these cleaning tools are and how they were used. Then check your answers here.

Crazy Quilt Bookmark Activity
Make a fun bookmark and learn fun facts about quilts.

Learn More Downloads

Classic Quilting Patterns

Peruse quilts from the Billings Farm & Museum collection and learn about classic quilting patterns such as the Log Cabin, the Crazy Quilt, the Tumbling Block, and the 15-Patch.

Harvesting Ice

Ever wonder how food was kept cold in 1800s? Ice was cut from ponds and lakes in the winter and kept in ice houses. Learn how harvesting ice was done here at Billings Farm and the tools that were used for cutting the ice.

Guess the Artifact

Let’s play what is it? See if you can guess what these cleaning tools are and how they were used. Then check your answers here.

Crazy Quilt Bookmark Activity
Make a fun bookmark and learn fun facts about quilts.

Recipes

Time Travel Tuesday – Vanilla Wafers and Oregano Herbal Tea

As we celebrate pollinators on Time Travel Tuesday, Emery demonstrates a Fanny Farmer recipe using vanilla, a plant which would not grow without pollination by bees. Accompanying today’s Vanilla Wafers is an oregano herbal tea, an immunity booster also made from plants that rely on pollination. Download the recipes here and watch the video here.

Time Travel Tuesday Mac ‘n Cheese
Emery is making Mac ‘n Cheese from the Fannie Farmer 1896 Boston Cooking School Cook Book. Download the recipe, gather your ingredients and follow along!

Oat Wafer Recipe
As part of the Victory Garden movement, families were also encouraged to eat “wheatless” and “meatless” meals to save those resources for feeding the soldiers. Download this recipe and watch as Emery demonstrates this sweet wheatless treat that we can still enjoy today!

Time Travel Tuesdays – Fried Pickles

Whats left in your pantry after the long winter? Download this delicious Fannie Farmer fried pickle recipe and watch Emery as she prepares this yummy treat. Hope this inspires some spring cleaning in your kitchen!

Muffins
Learn about cookstoves and make berry muffins from the Fannie Farmer 1896 Boston Cooking School Cook Book.

Time Travel Tuesday – Shoofly Pie & Switchel

In honor of Draft Animal Week, Time Travel Tuesday is featuring recipes for some old farm favorites. Today Emery makes Shoofly Pie, a classic treat after a day of plowing fields, and the original farmer “power” drink, Switchel. Download the recipes here and watch the video here.