Food

Cooking is one of the most important things in Plymouth. The Pilgrims had many recipes. The Pilgrim babies started out eating Pap. Pap is a mixture of milk and flour. The Pilgrim children drank beer because there was nothing else to drink. Pilgrims didn’t eat pie as a dessert. They ate it whenever they wanted to. Samoset helped the Pilgrims plant Indian corn. And Indian corn was good for the Pilgrims. Hasty Pudding is a pudding made by boiling flour and water in a cloth bag. Pilgrims loved pudding! They called salad, sallet and they also called vegetables herbs and roots. The Pilgrims didn’t really eat herbs and roots, they used them for decoration. The Pilgrims also called all kinds of food meat. They made a cereal called Hominy. Bean flour bread was called Horse Bread. It tasted so awful that sometimes they fed it to their pigs. Horse Bread is a coarse bread made from ground peas. It even sounds so awful to me. They ate this type of cake called Johnnycakes. Johnnycakes are little round cakes of cornmeal and water. The Pilgrims called it Johnnycakes because that cake was meant for taking with you when you go on journeys. It was originally called Journeycakes. They called little round breads Hoecakes. Pilgrims made a soup called a Labscouse. A Labscouse is a soup made with spices, dried peas, salted beef, and water. They also drank cider and put their cider in barrels called hogshead. It was very hard for the Pilgrims to hunt for meat because whenever someone shoots and misses, all the animals run away. I picked food for my pilgrim focus because it sounds interesting and because my mom loves cooking and making different types of food. And that’s what I know about food. By: Emma Lee


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