Good ole George

In our history studies, we are starting our George Washington unit.  We are very excited, because we toured Mt. Vernon a summer back (09) and we've always been somewhat fond of our dear first president.  We have been anxiously waiting to get to this section in time...

The books I bought whilst at Mt. Vernon-to add to our collection.

He'll start coloring the pages from the Mt. Vernon coloring book and GW one as we work through the unit.

So in the workbox today-I placed his copywork book on George's Rules of Civility; read more of the wonderful D'Aulaire story-George Washington, and the Fritz book-George Washington's Breakfast. After reading the breakfast book, we decided to give it a go and have ourselves a GW snack.  Off to the kitchen we went to make some hoe cakes, and have some tea.  Now I don't think George ever had Goji Berry Pomegranate Tea (I dunno even know for sure what a "goji berry" is) like we did, but it was fun to recreate a similar experience.  We invited daddy to join us, and the kids even tried to sip a bit of tea (we are not big tea drinkers and the kids could barely swallow a sip or two-but they tried) whilst we nibbled up some 'hot off the griddle' hoe cakes.

 We tried to make these (at first) in great grannie's cast iron skillet-but because it has seen so many days of an open flame, the bottom was chipping/flaking...and don't cha know a big chip broke off and caught on fire (briefly-put out immediately) to set off the smoke detectors for a bit of time there-ah, always something.  Sadly, we had to toss that well used beast...and use our modern day pan instead.

We even used the real china for this.  The table cloth was pretty wrinkly, but we weren't going for looks here-just taste and experience.

Up close of it.  The cakes were not real pretty looking (ascetically) as I was just kinda plopping them in-and we used the basic version of a recipe...next time we'll try Paula Deen's b/cuz it sounds wonderful and more tasty.  Not real sure why the boy thought we'd need 3 sugar packets though-LOL.