Food In TheColonies

By Susanna Huang and Tiffany Chea

• Today, it would be common to find the kitchen inside your house. In the colonial times, you might of found the kitchen in a separate building. If you were lucky enough to have the kitchen inside your house, it would be the main room.

• Almost every kitchen had a fireplace. It was used to bake bread and cook meat. It’s like a stove that you would use today!

COLONIAL KITCHENS

The background is an image of a fireplace that would be found in a colonial kitchen. You can even see the pots that were used!

• Porridge was eaten if you lived on a farm.

• Cornmeal mush and molasses was eaten if you lived in the town.

• In the 19th century wafers, muffins, and toast was served at about 9 or 10 o’clock.

• If you lived in the south and were poor you would have eaten cold turkey.

• All these different foods were paired with an alcoholic beverage or cider.

The muffins in the background probably look better than they did when they were eaten in the 19th century.

What was eaten for breakfast?

What was eaten for lunch?

TRICK QUESTION!They didn’t eat lunch!

Their mid-day meal was calledDINNER!

• Stews that included pork, corn, cabbage, and other vegetables

• Meat puddings• Deep meat pies• Salads• There were

sometimes cake and tarts

THEN WHAT WAS EATEN FOR DINNER?

Eaten by slaves

Eaten by average family

Doesn’t that meat pie look good? Yum!

• Supper was normally a snack of leftovers before going to bed.

• Sometimes, gruel was eaten -Gruel mixture of boiling water and oats

What was eaten for supper?

This bowl of gruel resembles oatmeal, doesn’t it?

• Cheesecake, Pound Cake, Spice Cake• Indian pudding on special events• Sweetmeats(jelly)• Tarts and Custards• Cooked or dried fruits• Small cakes – now called cookies• Nuts• On special occasions, there were dessert

pyramids.

Any Dessert?

The dessert pyramid was what it sounds like. It was layers of sweet desserts, therefore the name the dessert pyramid. To make this, they put berries and candied fruit into a tin. On top of that, cake and larger fruits were stacked and held together with icing. In Europe, it was a custom to put a dessert pyramid on your dinner table. As you can probably tell, the tradition of putting one on your table has vanished.

Dessert Pyramid

Candy was eaten, but not until the 17th or 18th century. According to foodtimeline.org, the first Americans used syrup from maple trees to sweeten their food. This syrup was also made into sugar candy! *Sorry, no Pop Rocks and Skittles were invented yet . Well they were, but later on!!

What other sweet foods were eaten?

• 1 stick of butter• 1/2 cup vegetable shortening/oil • 2 cups sugar• 4 eggs• 3 cups all-purpose flour• 1/4 teaspoon salt• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder• 1 cup milk/buttermilk• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract• Directions• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.• Make sure the butter is at room temperature. Mix the butter with the sugar for

about 2 minutes. Add the milk, vegetable oil/shortening, and vanilla extract. Then, beat the eggs into it. In another bowl, stir the flour, baking powder, and salt. Add them together and mix. Bake for 1 hour.

RECIPE FOR POUND CAKE

• If it was a baking day, the main meal would most likely be cold meats.

• The English thought that beer was good for them!

• According to preservationviginia.org, it’s been proven that the 104 men and boys who landed in Jamestown survived on mostly fish and turtles!

FUN FACTS!!!

ANY QUESTIONS???

• http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodcolonial.html#colonialovens

• http://www.history.org/foundation/journal/christmas05/food.cfm

• http://library.thinkquest.org/J002132/food.html• http://www.plimoth.org/learn/just-kids/homework-help

/whats-dinner• http://www.preservationvirginia.org/exhibit/eats.html?p

rocess=0• Food In Colonial America by Mark Thomas• Homes In Colonial America by Mark Thomas• Colonial Times From A to Z by Bobbie Kalman ***IMAGES WERE FROM CLIP ART***

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