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We take a closer look at the traditional craftmanship and minimalist design that make a Shaker-style kitchen as popular today as ever.
Spend a day exploring the Village and experience the many reasons the Shakers called it the "City of Peace". Farming was at the heart of all Shaker communities. Through agricultural experimentation and wise use of technology, the Shakers made their farms into models of efficiency and innovation. Hancock Shaker Village is still
One of NYC's best new restaurants, The Commerce Inn takes inspiration from Shaker design. It presents a fresh look back, and style ideas to apply at home.
Isn't this a thing of beauty? A truly ripe blackberry waiting to be picked in my neighbours garden across the street. The last time I had blackberries this good was when I was about 11 years old and went blackberrying with my friend, Helen, near the Twelve Pins Mountains in Galway, Ireland. We wandered through the hedgerows for hours covering ourselves with burs and bites and the juice from a thousand delicious blackberries. We then brought our bounty back to the caravan where we were staying and attempted to make jam...I say attempted because I don't think we knew what we were doing other than attracting huge amounts of wasps and annoying my poor Mother by covering everything in sight with blackberry stickiness....ah - those were wonderful days!! There is a great fondness for blackberries in the UK not only as something delicious to eat but also as an object to be replicated in charming illustrations and my friend Valerie Greeley certainly does know how to illustrate blackberries as evidenced by the beautiful images below. "Bunny and Blackberries" by Valerie Greeley "Dormouse and Blackberries" by Valerie Greeley "Jellies and British Puddings" by Valerie Greeley and on that note should we indulge in a dessert made with blackberries (although I have to be absolutely honest here and say if your blackberries are as good as my neighbours eat them plain as nothing on earth can improve them!)...but if you must perhaps you'd like to indulge in Bramble Shaker-Quaker....a simple little ditty, a Yorkshire speciality batter pudding with blackberries. After I had made it I realized it is just a puffy version of the divine French Cherry Clafouti...maybe we should call it Blackberry ClaPOUFi. So simple: Pre heat your oven to 375F 1. Heavily butter a shallow gratin type dish. I used 4 of the size above. 2. Scatter your berries as ye may...you will notice I added a couple of gorgeous cherries to mine because I happened to have them on hand. 3. Avail yourself of the following ingredients: 3 room temperature eggs separated 2oz / 1/4 cup sugar 2oz /1/3 cup flour 1 3/4 cups/14 fluid ounces whole milk 4. Beat egg yolks lightly with a fork. 5. Mix yolks with milk. 7. Mix flour and sugar together in a bowl. 8. Put liquid into a blender, add dry ingredients and whizz until smooth batter emerges. 9. Whisk egg whites to fluffy peaks. 10. Pour blender ingredients gently into whisked whites and blend timidly until well mixed...do not worry too much if there are some lumpy bits...better to not deflate than overmix. 11. Pour batter over blackberries and then spoon floaty egg whitey stuff over any holes where fruit is peaking through - see below. Now pop into your nice hot oven and bake for about 35 minutes until beautifully browned as below The recipe (from an old British Country Living magazine...my favourite magazine EVER) says to eat hot or warm...I actually preferred it cool for when it's hot it's HOT...those blackberries hold the heat!! You can put a dollop of cream or vanilla ice cream on there and I really don't think it would hurt!! And now for a bit of blackberry frivolity: Available at my CafePress store and a charming and very funny English video that involves said fruit.
Shaker cabinets at Enfield, NH
Our Mission Canterbury Shaker Village was established in 1792 when followers of founder Mother Ann Lee formed their seventh community in Canterbury, NH, which remained prominent for 200 years. The […]
A few weeks back I went to Canterbury Shaker Village in New Hampshire on a frosty morning in search of smart, simple design and storage ideas for the home
PITTSFIELD -- Walnut arms curve smoothly in a chandalier. A wooden clasp glides apart, and a brown oak box opens to show a row of teabags. Shakers did drink tea. But here with a sewing table and golden-grained wall cabinet stands a computer desk.
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Moving from the city to the country, while learning how to garden, raise produce, remodel, decorate, and live a simpler, more stress free life.
Going down Bristol Road in Selly Oak. I walked past the Selly Oak Quaker Meeting on Bristol Road in Selly Oak. Quakers - The Religious Society of Friends Signs near the top of the path. Sign about the Quakers and when they meet.
If you follow along with me on social media, you have been seeing the mudroom tile going in. So, I thought it would be a good time to share with you my vision for the very epic and large mud/laundry room at our latest flip house. Le’ts start with some before pictures so you can […]
Quakers have publicly witnessed for peace on many occasions, often with others who share their concern. For instance, in 1968,...
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By the Quaker artist, Percy Bigland, c. 1858-1926 (active 1882-1925) now in the Bond Hall, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania this picture was exhibited at the 1896 exhibition of the Royal Academy. Percy Bigland was in 1891 a founder member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters. The model was Catherine Nicoll, herself a water-colour artist and daughter of the Scottish journalist William Robertson Nicoll. Photo: Martin Ewing www.flickr.com/photos/martin_ewing/380691942/
A collection of images by featured photographer Jean Schnell celebrating the beauty of Quaker meetinghouses.
Covington isn’t the only bicentennial in 2015. Local Quakers belonging to the Cincinnati Friends Meeting celebrate 200 years this month, and are using the occasion to dispel some long-standing misconceptions.
A QUAKERS' meeting house in Frandley, near Antrobus, has been awarded Grade II-listed status by the government.
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See how Quaker beliefs compare with mainstream Christianity and learn how the worship practices of this religion affect the way Friends live.
In colonial times it was fashionable for wealthy Americans to have paintings or small miniatures made of loved ones. For many this was prohibitively expensive but middle class families, especially those in the country, could have silhouettes made of their family members relatively inexpensively. A silhouette, known then as "profiles" or "shades", were line portraits with no internal detail. Many of these were cut from paper and glued to contrasting paper but some were painted. They typically were 3 to 5 inches in length. Varying methods were used to produce the profile, some used light to trace the shadow of a portrait sitter, others were drawn quickly by artists. One popular method of creating silhouettes involved folding the paper into four so that the cutter could make four copies of the same silhouette at once. These could then be given away or exchanged. Silhouettes could also be easily traced and copied if more were needed. Along with country folk and the middling class, silhouettes appealed to Quakers, even wealthy ones, due to the simplistic nature of the art and the cost. Quakers felt that silhouettes did not emphasize class or vanity as many paintings did. Silhouettes were also of interest at the time as theories of physiognomy at the time claimed that a person's character could be read through the face. Silhouettes were popular until the invention and spread of the Daguerreotype in the 1840s. In modern times, silhouettes are made easily using photography and computers. There are many tutorials showing how to do it. But if you wanted to do it the old fashioned way, profiles tend to be relatively easy for people to draw. Resources: Clark, Joanna. "Quaker Silhouettes." The Friend: The Quaker Magazine. http://www.thefriend.org/article/quaker-silhouettes (accessed April 11, 2013). Verplank, Anne. "The Silhouette and Quaker Identity in Early National Philadelphia." Winterthur Portfolio 43, No. 1 (2009): 41-79.
A collection of images by featured photographer Jean Schnell celebrating the beauty of Quaker meetinghouses.
From the beginning, Quakers testified against ‘vain superfluities’ in dress and furniture, seeing these as expressions of pride. In 1761...
The Shakers are on the verge of extinction following the death of one of its last members. So why is their austere style having yet another revival?
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