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Canada’s Hudson Bay Blankets History

August 31, 2020 By Innat Hudson Leave a Comment

As you see in the picture above, this Hudson Bay Blanket looks like any other normal blanket from anywhere around the world. But, as the history of Hudson is different, these Hudson Bay blanket’s history is also different. It all started when colonization started in the Northern America by the Europeans. There started the exchange of different goods while they first connected with the European natives.

The American Indians offered a number of products that included tanned and untanned fur and leather goods, also, they exchanged other products like moccasins, hand-made products, and many such Artistic things. In return, the Europeans offered knives, needles, pots, alcohol and many more products. One thing the used to offer the most were wool blankets.

History of the Hudson Bay Blankets

As per what the historians say, these wool blankets played a very important role while the America was trading with India (Indian goods that came through Europe) and about 60 percent of the entire trade with Europe constituted of these unique wool blankets. And so, since 1600’s these became a high-quality loved item by most of Americans like the Hudson Bay Bread.

So, they are not just the ordinary household blankets, they have come from history and have been used by most of our ancestors. The French also started manufacturing and offering such wool blankets but couldn’t reach the quality standards of the European wool blankets.

These blankets have narrow lines in their fiber and then this woolen fiber is dyed with indigo or black colors. They are 10-15 cm long and are woven from all the edges. The size as well as the weight of this blanket is determined by the number of lines it has in it. Along with these full length lines, there are half-length lines that makes the folding easier and possible.

Hudson Bay Blanket Colors

The Hudson Bay blanket initially had only white color but later it started getting dyed and came in other alternatives like black, blue and many more. The most common were the white blankets and so, is quite wide spread and usable. When you visit places around Hudson Vally, you will find the manufacturing unit of this beautiful Blanket.

Conclusion

The Hudson Bay Blankets mark its presence since 1600’s and still has a variety of cool products under its name. Many people from Hudson as well as from around the world own this beautiful and unique blanket that are historic and worthful collection. Inn at Hudson has a display one such historic blankets at the entrance. This blanket is owned by the hotel since decades and it has been kept in a way that there is no major damage caused to it.

You can find these blankets still at a number of shapes when you visit Hudson county. They come in different sizes like 32” * 46” then there is, 36” * 51” blankets and many more sizes. You can select the one that best suits your requirement and of course the budget. You can definitely show off with these amazing looking blankets.

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Hudson Restaurant Week at Hudson County NJ

August 28, 2020 By Innat Hudson Leave a Comment

You must have heard of several food festivals at different places around the world. But as the history of Hudson is different, so is true with its tours, foods and also festivals. So, this is not just the food festival but a complete restaurant festival. This restaurant festival goes on for a week’s time and gets you all the delicious meals of different restaurants at one place.

Here, you get to taste and enjoy cuisines of different countries, same kind of cuisines but different taste, and many more. It is a festival that is conducted in around first quarter of the year and people from different countries as well as different states come in to enjoy the wide varieties of dishes.

Hudson Restaurant Week

Like the most recent one was conducted in the January End – February Start week. At this time, we – Inn at Hudson were super occupied with completely full rooms, waiting lists and so much. At around that time of the year, the environment at Hudson is most blissful and so, people love to visit places like Hudson Valley and Hudson County more at that time compared to the other months of the year.

The fee per person for enjoying the meal is $30 – so you can pay for yourself and your friends can pay for themselves – simple and best design. Then about the food, you can enjoy the appetizers, then the main course and then dessert. There are vast varieties out of which you can choose out the foods you want to have.

There are two good news when we talk about this amazing restaurant week fest. These two things are:

  1. Really good restaurants from Hudson NY as well as restaurants from Hudson Ohio participate – this way, you can enjoy the taste of their dishes at one place
  2.  They serve normal as well as vegan varieties of food – so if you are a vegan, do not worry about the food you wish to have at Hudson, you will definitely have a variety of choices of everything to choose from.

Not only that, you can also get gluten-free food choices along with other facilities like Parking, BYOB, Skyline View, socializing and many more (as mentioned by the fest website!). Before visiting the fest, you can yourself check out what all restaurants are participating and what all do they serve the best – so you can order something of your convenience like the Hudson Bay Bread!

Restaurant week fest celebrated its sixteenth year of participation in the year 2020. Where you can find a number of appetizers like French Onion soup, salads, Mussels, Brie, Ravioli, then for main course you can order from Frites, Snapper, Pot Pies, Salads and many more, then for desserts, you can enjoy puudings, sauces, ice creams and many such things.

Enjoy this amazing festival at Hudson County NJ. They announce their festive dates beforehand for you to quickly book tickets and come to the fest. Visit Inn at Hudson and we will give you a complementary visit at this great place.

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Hudson Bay Bread Recipe (Outward Bread)

August 27, 2020 By Innat Hudson Leave a Comment

Hudson has been famous for its bread since long, as the history of Hudson too is long. So, we Inn at Hudson also have a numerous variety of bread but so many of our in-house guests loves to have the uniquely baked and tasty Hudson Bay bread. The name for this bread is given by the Sommers Canoe Base. It was first baked in 1960’s by Base at the Barbara Ann Bakery in Aly. He prepared or baked this unique tasting bread in a convection oven for the first time.

Since then so many bakers have tried baking the similar versions of bread yet this one remains unique and is served by several well-known restaurants in Hudson NY as well as the restaurants in Hudson Ohio (we also serve the bread). The most unique ingredient used in this bread is the rolled oats not the instant oats that gives it a flavory yet salty taste.

Hudson Bay Bread Recipe

Using a food processor will reduce your efforts to a greater extend but if you do not have one, you can try out using a blender, it will take a little time but will give fairly good results. We offer bay bread to our guests specifically for their lunch meals for it is heavy, healthy and goes with many other dishes that can be served with it. Let’s now look the delicious recipe.

Ingredients

  • 1 and ½ Cups of Butter
  • 2/3 Cups of Corn Syrup
  • 4 Cups of Sugar
  • 2 Tsp of Maple Flavoring
  • 2/3 Cups of Honey
  • 3 Tablespoons of Corn Starch
  • 10 Cups of Rolled Oats
  • 1 and ½ Cups of Sliced Almond

Directions

Step 1: Take a large mixing bowl and add butter to it. Let it heat to get soft at a medium to high flame

Step 2: Now, add sugar to the butter and beat. Just beat it towards one side for around 1 minute. Then add honey, con syrup, maple flavoring and corn starch to it and beat the mixture again for half a minute

Step 3: Now, slowly add oats and almonds little by little and keep beating. You will get a crumbly dough

Step 4: Now, press the oats mixture firmly in the baking pan which would be around 15*10*1 inches in size.

Step 5: Then bake it in the oven at around 375 degrees Fahrenheit for around 20-25 minutes or until you get a light brown colored bar shaped, completely baked dish read.

Now cut the flat bread into 12 piece and you will get your tasty baked dish ready! Now that you know to prepare this tasty dish, doesn’t mean that Hudson doesn’t have much more to explore about. Its quite a lot big and beautiful place that you will definitely want to explore and learn about. Check out the things you can look for at Hudson valley and Hudson County. Enjoy the tasty dish and do visit our hotel to have a wonderful and blissful stay.

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Best Restaurants in Hudson NY (New York) – Dine and Drinks

July 10, 2020 By Innat Hudson Leave a Comment

After checking out restaurants at Hudson Ohio, you must be curious whether you can find a good restaurant at Hudson New York. Hudson has a number of places to roam around at and so is the restaurants. You might not get as great food restaurant as that of Hudson Ohio. This is because this place is more into providing a very normal meal and limited options are available.

Although there are limited options, some places like the ones mentioned in the list below are really good. When you look for things around Hudson valley to roam around, you can also look for these really good restaurants and their food menus for you to plan your day meal and even your dinner.

Best Restaurants at Hudson New York

The restaurants mentioned here do not provide a wide variety of diet optional dishes. This means, if you want to have a vegetarian or a vegan or a gluten-free dish, you must visit that specific kind of restaurant only rather than looking for an all-round restaurant. Let’s now have a look at some good options of restaurants at Hudson, New York.

Swoon Kitchenbar

This restaurant has been here from more than two decades providing quality food items for all of its visitors. Here you get all the seasonal as well as normal dishes. This royal looking restaurant has varieties of snacks, and other dishes. You can also find a bar in there where you can enjoy your drink with your food being served.

American Glory

If you love having barbeques than this is the perfect place for you. The American glory is set on a former firehouse and so has that heat taking capacity that is the basic requirement of a barbeque restaurant. It has several other fast food dishes in their menu like sandwiches, pickled red cabbage and many more. They make all these barbeques on their special barbeque grill.

Wm. Farmer & Sons Barroom

This is a beautiful family owned restaurant that offers you lunch, dinner, kid’s menus and many more. The speciality of this restaurant is their pickled foods. They provide a number of dishes that are loved by many of our customers. We recommend this restaurant for some varieties of their foods and their fine cocktail menu that is completely different as compared to the other restaurants.

Backbar

A royal patio-setting bar is what you will love to see at the Hudson. Looking at the history of Hudson, there had to be some places that have really good drinks and have a great bar environment. It also has some variety of dishes available at this bar restaurant. You can try out different curries that they serve the best along with the drinks and cocktails.

Conclusion

You might find some good restaurant at the corner but it is not the part of this list because either it is not as popular as these restaurants or may be because it doesn’t have as many good dishes as that of these restaurants. We definitely recommend these restaurants over the others. Mostly, the Hudson, New York is famous for its bakery products so you might find a number of good bakers at the Hudson.

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Popular Attractions in Hudson County NJ

July 9, 2020 By Innat Hudson Leave a Comment

Although Hudson county, New Jersey is little away from Hudson city, New York, we recommend our customers at Inn at Hudson to visit this beautiful place too. After tourists visit places at Hudson valley, they then prefer going to Hudson county. As per the history of Hudson, this entire stretch was one which is now divided into two.

The Hudson county has so many cool places for you to visit and enjoy with your family or friends. It has historic places, rivers, soccer ground and many more to definitely look at. As a tourist, you will hardly find these places together in one city. This place is suitable to visit for everyone, people from all age groups will love to visit the places in this list.

Places to Visit at Hudson, New Jersey

Once you enjoy your visit at Hudson New York and enjoy the tasty cuisines from Restaurants at Hudson, New York, you can they move towards Hudson, New Jersey. All the places there are close and you won’t have to travel much to visit these places. Let’s have a look at some of the best places to visit at the Hudson, New Jersey.

The Hudson River

The best and the most visited place when anyone talks about Hudson is the Hudson river. At this super romantic place, you can enjoy doing a number of things like spirit cruise or sailing or even sit there and enjoy the beautiful atmosphere in the evening. You can enjoy the cruise as well as sailing experience that you will never ever forget.

Bayonne

In the middle of the Hudson river, you will find this museum that is the part of the National Register of Historic places. This place had the artifacts that share the history of firefighters of the Hudson county. You will be able to see the Bayonne bridge from this island which is the longest arched steel bridges in the world. You can also dine at this beautiful place at the restaurants like Casa Lupita and Paesano’s Pizza.

Harrison/Kearny

This soccer stadium has a world class design that you will realize the difference when you visit the place. This stadium is the home for Red Bill Arena in Harrison. While you enjoy the game, you can also enjoy the delectable diner food like sandwich and other American fast foods.  

Jersey City

How can we not go to the New Jersey city and roam around the liberty state park and other places while we are at Hudson, New Jersey? So close to the main city. There are so many places you can visit at the Jersey City while you think of spending a day there.

Other than these places, you can visit Hudson’s liberty science centre, Hudson river walkway, rooftop XP, the Hudson and Manhattan railroad powerhouse, and many more such beautiful places. But do not ever miss to visit the four places while you are planning to visit the Hudson at New Jersey. Post this, you can also visit the restaurants at Hudson Ohio.

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