Across Indiana
Ever dined like it's 1839?
Clip: Season 2026 Episode 9 | 2m 43sVideo has Closed Captions
What’s your favorite course?
Dinner’s ready! Join Across Indiana as we visit Stone’s Tavern in Ligonier, Indiana, where the annual Hearthside Dinner serves up 19th century inspired cooking with every plate. Follow along as Wendy Howard with the Stone’s Trace Historical Society walks you through each portion’s ingredients, background, and inspiration.
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Across Indiana is a local public television program presented by WFYI
Across Indiana
Ever dined like it's 1839?
Clip: Season 2026 Episode 9 | 2m 43sVideo has Closed Captions
Dinner’s ready! Join Across Indiana as we visit Stone’s Tavern in Ligonier, Indiana, where the annual Hearthside Dinner serves up 19th century inspired cooking with every plate. Follow along as Wendy Howard with the Stone’s Trace Historical Society walks you through each portion’s ingredients, background, and inspiration.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipAll right so your first course it says spiced apples.
So if you envision making an apple pie and when all the children come and snitch the apples before you get it made that's kind of what you have here.
with a thickened cream on top.
And then there's cloves and cinnamon which you do not need to eat those.
They're just to be pretty.
For the next course that we have coming it says sippets and jam it's buttered and grilled toast.
And then there is a strawberry jam a black cherry and then it's like a whipped honey for you to try on it.
So enjoy.
most of us think of a fancy charcuterie board.
Charcuterie actually was a smoked meat.
The word broken down is cooked flesh.
They did not have refrigeration or anything like that So we have salami there is a rose and then we've got mozzarella cheese a lot of things were pickled.
it was to preserve again they did not have refrigeration.
for this course it is a it's called Ragout Bouillon.
The ragout technically is a stew.
But the bouillon means broth.
Again it was for more of the lower class because they would use a lesser quality of meat because they didn't waste anything and they would cook it all day real low and slow And they used a lot of root vegetables.
After that we have I believe the fish.
So that's going to be pan fried bluegill.
we'll have some lemon wedges and things in a homemade tartar sauce and everything to go with it.
For our next course we have mint cherry ice.
So it's an ice.
There's no milk or anything in it.
I make a mint tea with fresh mint and then it's grapefruit squeezed grapefruit and lemon then it has a cherry sauce on top but it's like to cleanse after the fish because fish lingers.
you have dressed chicken it has a wild rice stuffing in it So the carrots are a Williamsburg recipe and it has honey and ginger with it.
And then mushrooms would have been you know prevalent.
They could you know forage for anything like that.
The mushrooms and it's just an herb butter mushroom.
For our dessert we have a BlackBerry Fool.
which is basically it's blended blackberries on the bottom and then it's sweetened whipped cream mixed with the blackberries that gives you that intermediate.
And then the cream on top with it's a pizzelle.
cookie biscuit the little the cookie in there and then some blackberries.
So enjoy To learn more about the Hearthside Dinner visit WFYI.org/AcrossIndiana
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