Fresh Bread from Half Crown Bakehouse

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A Loaf of Potato Bread

A limited-run loaf, made of three varieties of 18th-century wheat and three varieties of potatoes—the potatoes were grown on George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate.

This type of bread came to be in the mid-18th century but did not become popular in the newly founded America until the 1790s—most likely due to the scarcity or high price of wheat.

It was also found in an Agricultural journal in the 1790’s that bread was listed as another use of Potatoes.

A Pound Cake with Cherries & Currants

A Common Cake of the 1760s with the addition of fresh currants and cherries grown on George Washington’s Estate.

A Loaf of Bread & Cheese

A proper portion of clothbound cheese is included, in the style of English cheddars of old but made in an American creamery.

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Loaf of Midling Bread

In 1773, George Washington writes in a Letter to Lamar, Hill, Bisset, and Company: ”I expect you will likewise, from Mr. Newton of Norfolk, receive Ninety Barrls of Burr Midlings belonging to me, which in my opinion makes better Bread than common Flour.” 

Midling flour was a coarse middle-grade flour that sometimes matched the price of common flour but was only a step above ship stuff.

A Loaf of Midling Bread and Cheese

Included is a proper portion of clothbound cheese, in the style of English cheddars of old but made in an American creamery.

A Package of Ginger Bread

At Morristown 1780, a receipt was signed by Christopher Ludwick—Superintendent of Bakers and Director of the Baking Department for the Continental Army—that included nine pounds of butter, milk, allspice, caraway seed, and ginger.  The gingerbread was for Washington himself.