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Research Questions What types of utensils did they use? What was their usual fare for breakfast? Lunch? Dinner? Did they grow their own food or buy it at a market? Did they put up food by canning, freezing, or pickling? What were market like in their town? What types of food did they eat? Did they have a cook or housemaid to do the cooking? Did the family eat at the kitchen table or dining room table? Did the husband hunt to feed his family? Who prepared the food? Did they use a fireplace or stove? Did they raise animals for the purpose of providing food? What was a typical family dinner? |
Resources on the Web What did the colonists
eat? Cooking
Recipes from the Colonial American Times Gode Cookery Feeding America:
The Historic American Cookbook Project 18th Century Recipes presented by the Claude Moore Colonial Farm at Turkey Run Food of the 19th Century 1800-1900 Civil
War Recipes Vintage Recipes from 19th and Early 20th Century Cookbooks, an article by Leisa Johnson and Audrey Marshall, Michelle Evans, and Conner Prairie. Old West Cookin' offers recipes that came from the chuck wagon. Foodways during the Depression: Farming in the 1930s What's Cooking America - rediscover the flavors and traditions of true American cooking. Food in America from Digital History. |
Print Resources An abundance of print resources are available to help you research the food our ancestors ate. Cookbooks are a wonderful resource. Many of these books are available at your local library, favorite bookseller, or online at www.amazon.com. Log
Cabin Cooking: Pioneer Recipes and Foodlore Depression
Era Recipes Stories
and Recipes of the Great Depression of the 1930's and More from Your Kitchen
Today Whistleberries
Stirabout Depression Cake: Food Customs and Concoctions of the Frontier
West Old
Time Farmhouse Cooking: Rural American Recipes and Farm Lore The
City Tavern Cookbook: Recipes from the Birthplace of American Cuisine American
Cookbook: A History Food
in the United States: 1820s-1890 America's
Founding Food: The Story of New England Cooking
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Social History Resources: Food