Would you like to celebrate Thanksgiving the way the Pilgrims did ? Then be quick for a departure from your traditional bomb , grooming , gravy , spud , and pie fare ! The Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoag Indians did n’t have a unmarried meal for Thanksgiving in 1621 . The harvest time celebration was three Clarence Shepard Day Jr. long , and include games , competition , and storytelling as well as meal for around 150 people .
You may be surprised to learn that some of the foods that are traditional Thanksgiving menu werenot availablefor the Pilgrim ’s solemnisation . They may have had cranberry , but they did n’t have wampum to make sauce . angelical potatoes or yam were not common to the area , much less ashen white potato . Pumpkin Proto-Indo European recipes did not exist at the time , and there were no right oven to bake pastries , anyway . Any Milk River or tall mallow had to have follow from butt , as the Pilgrims did not bring cows with them from England .
Authentic Thanksgiving foods , after the jumping .
The Pilgrims had vegetables , but not in the abundance we think of when we see harvesting displays of pumpkin vine and profusion . They used Amerind clavus , which would be dried by November , so no Zea mays on the cob or Zea mays everta . The dried corn could be made into meal for cornbread or added to lather . Sweet and savory dishes were service together , sosweet Indian corn puddingwould accompany meal . They had pumpkins , mash , peas , onions , bean , and carrots which would be stewed . But the Pilgrims were good hunters than farmers .
Seafoodwas most certainly on the menu , include lobster , Cancer , Pisces the Fishes , eel , and even seal meat . There were also dry cranberry , loganberries , bluberries , cherry , grapes , and plum .
What to drink with an reliable Thanksgiving meal ? Beer , of course . The Puritans werenot counterbalance to inebriant , although they preached against overindulgence . They set up abrewhouseshortly after arriving in the New World . They learned to make beer from Amerindic maize and other available ingredients . The vantage of beer is that it is less probable than piddle to become contaminated with disease .
discover some recipes for traditional Thanksgiving dish aerial through the years atPilgrim Hall Museum .
