Hearth Cooking for Kids with Felicity
June 30, 2012      Instructor - Linda Zeigler      Fee - $45
This hands-on class for kids 8-12 years old is based on the story and times of Felicity Merriman, an American Girl doll.  Students will use recipes from Felicity's cookbook to prepare a meal and ice cream just as it would have been done in the year 1774.  Enjoy the meal you helped cook in the Dill's Tavern kitchen hearth.  Fun Felicity take home gifts.
  
  
Archeology Workshop
 July, 2012     Instructor - Steve Warfel    Fee - $350
Steve Warfel is one of the foremost archeologists in Pennsylvania and the leader of the recent dig at Dill’s Tavern. Among the topics covered will be: 

1. The nature of archeology: what it is, how it compares with historical research, and how it is used to learn about the past.
2. Control of horizontal and vertical space on an archeological site.
3. Laying an archeological grid.
4. Identifying, maintaining, and using special tools to conduct excavation.
5. Excavating soil using a variety of hand tools.
6. Recognizing and recording distinctive soil layers and disturbances within soil layers.
7. Recovering, handling, and bagging artifacts in the field.
8. Mapping archeological information in plain view and profile.
9. Recording observations in a field journal.
10. Cleaning and labeling artifacts according to professional standards.

The field component will consist of two 5-day weeks, whereas the laboratory component will consist of one 5-day week and one 3-day week (if necessary).  The digging site will be a continuation of the area excavated outside the tavern’s 1819 kitchen in 2011.  This location is loaded with artifacts.  Class size will be limited to 10 individuals.  The senior archeologist and a trained assistant will provide close supervision of all activities.  Participants must be fourteen years of age or older and in good health.  

  
Introduction to Hearth Cooking
Sept. 15, 2012     Instructor - Linda Zeigler    Fee - $80
This hands-on class will introduce you to the basic skills of 18th and 19th century Hearth Cooking in the historic Dill's Tavern 1790 kitchen hearth.  No experience is needed.  Students will learn to build and maintain a cooking fire.  Using pots, kettles, dutch ovens, and spiders we will prepare a variety of foods using 18th and 19th century recipes.  A meal of class prepared dishes will end the day.

  
Bread and Butter
Sept. 29-30, 2012    Instructor - Linda Zeigler     Fee - $175
Churn fresh butter, and bake sweet  and savory breads of the 18th and 19th century in the historic Dill's Tavern 1790 kitchen hearth and squirrel tail bake oven using yeast we make ourselves. Period recipes and equipment will be used.  Each day of this hands-on class we will enjoy a hearth made soup along with our prepared in class breads.