Transcript Colonial Meals

Colonial Meals
What did people eat for
breakfast, dinner, and lunch?
They DID not have steak for
dinner btw 
By Amy Xu 7A3
An Introduction
People had to eat even back in the colonial times. They aren’t superman or
have abilities to generate food inside their stomachs. If you didn’t know
that, I have no comment…. MOVING ON, they had different meals from
ones we have today. They had to eat what accordingly to the seasons, even
if they didn’t want to. They had no refrigerators to keep the food cold.
Oh, and just a sneak peak of what's coming up, lunch did not exist. A
“typical colonial meal” did not exist as well.
Eating Utensils and Rules of
People even backEating
in the colonial days used
utensils to eat. They usually used flat knives and
spoons to eat, and don’t forget the plates! Cups were
used to drink (duh?) Spoons were made of either
laurel, or pewter. Colonial plates were actually homehewed wooden tresses. Cups were hollow gourds.
Families today eat dinner and talk about their day.
This didn’t happen in colonial times. In fact, the
children never spoke to the adults during eating time.
Sometimes, they even ate at separate place than the
adults. At the dinner table, the children only ate and
filled their plate.
What did people eat?
Yes. They had to eat. Do you? Well, heres a list of
some of the things they ate:
-Fruits (grown by colonists)
-Corn
-Bread
-Grains
-Vegetables (all grown by the colonists)
-Fish (vital importance. At first, they were less eaten
because colonists didn’t know how to catch them)
-Meats (bear meat, deer meat, lobster, what the men
hunted)
Cooking Roles + Tools
Woman had to prepare the food. (No, people COULD NOT
snap a finger and wa-la! Instant meal. WRONG, just wrong -___-) They
would start fires, go milk cows, pick
vegetables, and hang meat for it to dry, and
many other chores. This took a long time,
many hours. They used all sorts of utensils.
Quern, peel tool, and fire spoon just to
name a few. A quern was used to turn
grain into flour (which was used for
breads, etc). A peel tool was used to take
bread out of the oven conveniently. A fire
spoon was a tool used to transport hot
coals from one place to another.
The first course:
Breakfast
What do you eat at the beginning
of a new day? Breakfast of course!
During colonial times, the time
you ate breakfast varies. If you
were poor, you would eat it
early. If you were wealthy, you
would eat it later than the poor
people. Later in the 19th century,
breakfast was eaten at 9 or 10
o’clock. Poor PeoPle had to wake
up early to do their many chores.
As a result, breakfast was quite
simple.
Breakfast Foods
As said before, breakfast was
actually quite simple.
People drank cider or beer.
Even the kids. This was their
beverages with EVERY
meal. People didn’t eat bacon
or scrambled eggs. In fact
they ate porridge, corn mush,
molasses, bread, etc. Milk
was also drank. In New
England, milk was drank
more often.
Dinner
Dinner was eaten in the afternoon. It was
the biggest meal of the day. Also,
lunch didn’t exist. Like breakfast and
supper, it was simple. They had onepiece meals. With meat in a big kettle
with vegetables (personally grown
ones). Venison, pheasant, wild hare,
squirrel, pigeons, and different types
of fish were the basis of this one-piece
meal. People of the colonial times also
ate lobster, oysters, and corn (this was
always served!). Corn can be served in
many ways. It can be eaten with bread
or made into stew. Pudding can be
made too!
Supper
Supper was a light meal. It was served in the evening. Unlike,
nowadays where we serve dinner in the evening. This meal
was eaten late. It could’ve been leftovers from dinner or
gruel. Cider, beer was also eaten with this. In the 19th
century, its importance grew.
Sources
SOURCES (information)
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http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodcolonial.html#colonialmealtimes
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http://oldrecipebook.com/colonialbreakfast.shtml
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http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/1989294
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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081109091137AAx9J2h
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http://oldrecipebook.com/colonialdinners.shtml
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http://www.ssdsbergen.org/Colonial/food.htm
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http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/forestoakms/site%20pages/academics/social%20studies/colonisl%20times/baker.html
IMAGES
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http://4photos.net/photosv2/195782_colonial_dinner.jpg
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http://www.recipetips.com/images/glossary/g/gruel.jpg
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http://www.ratebeer.com/beerimages/full_size/84861.jpg
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http://www.history.org/history/teaching/enewsletter/volume3/images/dinnerlg.jpg
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http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-oSao-7qG_j0/ToMuX5NyNtI/AAAAAAAAB9Q/cGsYHMd4nB8/s1600/gruel.jpg
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http://www.spinarecipe.com/userfiles/image/Cooking%20Tips/wooden-spoon.jpg
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http://images.fastcompany.com/upload/Simple.jpg
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http://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/autumn04/images/food_group.jpg
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http://www.ssdsbergen.org/Colonial/food%201.jpg
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http://www.ssdsbergen.org/Colonial/food4.jpg
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http://www.ssdsbergen.org/Colonial/peel.jpg
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http://www.tonychor.com/archive/bacon.jpg
BOOKS (so little, sorry )
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Colonial Food by Verna Fisher
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I also have to thank and give credit to last year’s PowerPoint presentations for giving me ideas.