Thanksgiving dinner, served up colonial style

PORT JERVIS, NY — The Minisink Valley Historical Society will present its final fall program, the cooking of a colonial Thanksgiving dinner, on Saturday, November 29 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Fort Decker Museum of History. The society’s 1793 stone house museum is located at 127 West Main Street.

The all-day program will demonstrate colonial cooking techniques including the baking of bread, roasting of ducks and turkeys, baking of pumpkin pies, and making cranberry sauce and hot mulled cider the old-fashioned way. Society volunteers will demonstrate how a typical late 18th-century Thanksgiving dinner was cooked.

Visitors can also pick up last-minute hard-to-find holiday items in the historical society’s gift shop. Robert Schultz, the society’s president, said: “We are the only area historical group that attempts to recreate a colonial Thanksgiving dinner and we hope that you will join us. Visitors will get a real sense of the very difficult times that our ancestors lived through and how making a holiday dinner was filled with hard work. Visitors will also be able to pick up the recipes that are being used that day.”

For more information visit minisink.org or call 845/856-2375.