Cooking



My focus is cooking. I chose cooking because I love to cook! On the ship the Pilgrims ate hard biscuits and everyone drank beer, including the children! They drank beer because they hated water. The Pilgrims dipped the biscuits in the beer to make the biscuits softer. The Pilgrims also ate salted fish and meat. They called all food meat but I don’t know why.

Once in a while Pilgrims families on the ship got to cook a meal for their family. It was a real treat because all the rest of the Pilgrim food was cold and dry.

I also learned that the Pilgrims never ate bear until they came to America. It was the same thing with corn! The Pilgrims rarely ate bear because they were horrible hunters. When the Pilgrims were in England they couldn’t eat deer because only the king was allowed to eat it, and if you were caught hunting for deer you would get sent to jail! The Great thing about the new world is you can eat all of the deer you wanted to!

One of the Pilgrims told me that her favorite recipe was pancakes with sugar on top but they never tasted the sap of a maple tree before. Some of the foods they made are fresh corn soup, red pickled eggs, hot Indian pudding and succotash stew. 

When I went to Plimoth I got a cookbook with six or so recipes, I bet they will taste really good!

-Sophia Francis 10/27/10