State-by-State: New Hampshire

New Hampshire, originally one of the thirteen colonies, "created" the new nation by becoming the 9th state on June 21, 1788, meeting the requirement for nine states to ratify the Constitution!  The girls studied this state with the help of G is for Granite: A New Hampshire Alphabet and then completed their Scrapbook Page and Mini-Lapbook.

"N is for Newspaper

The oldest newspaper in all the land:

the New Hampshire Gazette

is published here yet.

Pick it up free on a local newsstand!"

-G is for Granite:  A New Hampshire Alphabet 

New Hampshire Scrapbook Page and Mini-Lapbook

The girls and I decided to make an Apple Tea Cake, recalling the apple orchards that were planted by the early settlers in New Hampshire.  Dad read the poem "After Apple Picking" which was written by American poet, Robert Frost in 1914.

"F is for Robert Frost

Frost is a poet of countryside things:

stone walls and hay rakes,

stoneboats and snowflakes,

orchards and woods where the ovenbird sings."

-G is for Granite:  A New Hampshire Alphabet 

New Hampshire Apple Tea Cake

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 cup flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 apple, cored and thinly sliced
• extra sugar
• nutmeg

Directions:

1. Cream butter and sugar and then add egg, beating well. 
2. Add flour, baking powder and salt, alternating with milk and mix until light and fluffy.  
3. Pour mixture into a greased and lined cake tin.  
4. Place apple slices decoratively on top of cake and sprinkle with the extra sugar and some nutmeg.
5. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-45 minutes.  (Ours took longer since we used a smaller pan, making the cake deeper.)
6. Remove from pan and cool on tray.