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Posted by: Rachel Gordon
Are traditional cakes, cookies, and other baked goods part of your holiday meals, gift giving and celebrations? Some of these treats are purely seasonal. Others, like gingerbread, are eaten year-round but become especially popular between Thanksgiving and New Year. Gingerbread features in our family festivities for dessert (a delicious Christmas Eve gingerbread soufflé), as tree …
Posted in: Cooking, Holidays & Celebrations
Posted by: Katie McCarthy
It’s a celebration of all things baking! Mark the anniversary of a beloved pop culture staple honoring baked treats by digging into images, videos, and recipes related to the delicious art of baking.
Posted in: Activities & Crafts, Cooking, Researching
Posted by: Jennifer Ezell
This summer, teens learned about the Library of Congress as part of the High School Summer Internship. Follow along as five program participants preview The Source, the Library’s new education center, by sharing about historic collections related to leisure, entertainment, and fun that they connected with this summer.
Posted in: Cooking, For Kids, For Teens, High School Internships, The Source
Posted by: Jennifer Ezell
Explore the experiences of high school students over time. From classes to extracurricular activities and school traditions, high school's moments have been captured in the Library's collections.
Posted in: Activities & Crafts, Cooking, For Teens, High School Internships
Posted by: Katie McCarthy
Discover hand-selected wintery images in the Library's collection and then find your own examples of what winter means to you!
Posted in: Activities & Crafts, Cooking, Holidays & Celebrations, Researching, Sports
Posted by: Katie McCarthy
As we reach the end of summer, I’m beginning to feel nostalgic for the hot days I grumbled about. Thinking about the past months, I’ve noticed that there are some foods I eat exclusively (or at least in a much higher quantity) in the summer: BLT sandwiches, corn on the cob, and hot dogs, to name …
Posted in: Activities & Crafts, Cooking
Posted by: Alli Hartley-Kong
This post was written by Alli Hartley-Kong and Sarah Peet, educational specialists in the Library of Congress’s Informal Learning Office. In the Library’s Informal Learning Office, we find ourselves sifting through digital versions of primary sources every day to identify collections materials we want to connect children and families to. Every so often you find …
Posted in: Cooking, Holidays & Celebrations
Posted by: Rachel Gordon
Want to make your own family cookbook? This post by Rachel Gordon dives deep into a late nineteenth-century cookbook crowdsourced from "famous folk" of the time as inspiration for a family craft.
Posted in: Activities & Crafts, Cooking
Posted by: Rachel Gordon
This post explores Library of Congress materials related to the pawpaw and provides a recipe for pawpaw ice cream that your family can make at home.
Posted in: Cooking, Native American History