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Question: What did people in colonial times eat !?
please give me a list I have to do A oral report on colonial time food!.
and also please don't say just one thing !.!.!.!. Thanks


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I take it you are asking about the English Colonies in America !?

Macaroni & Cheese!.!.!.!. seriously, it was one of Washington and Jefferson's favorites !!
Baked Beans
Corn Meal Mush
Corned Beef and Corned Beef Hash
Clam and Fish Chowders
Pea Soup
Succotash
Bean Soup
Fruit pies
Mince pies

Beef, Chicken, Turkey, Venison, PORK, Fish and Shellfish!.!.!. breads, grains, vegetables!.!.!.

Here are a number of recipes:
http://colonialcooks!.com/
http://www!.1771!.org/cd_recipes!.htm
http://www!.gaspee!.com/ColonialRecipes!.ht!.!.!.
http://www!.history!.org/Almanack/life/foo!.!.!.

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In America's Women, Gail Collins describes the kitchen garden of one colonial woman, Martha Ballard, a Maine midwife!. She grew:

beans, cabbage, lettuce, parsnips, carrots, turnips, beets, cucumbers, radishes, onions, garlic, peppers, squash, peas, muskmelon, watermelon, pumpkins and a variety of herbs!.

Colonia women made cheese, and when the pigs were butchered they cleaned their intestines for sausage casings and stuffed them with herbs!. They smoked meat and made ham and bacon!. They reared chickens, and collected the eggs!. They brewed beer and cider, which most people drank instead of water, as water was not safe to drink!.

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Turkey, chicken, deer,lamb, potatoes, carrots, beans, cabbage, apples, peaches, wheat for bread, pies, honeyWww@QuestionHome@Com

Turkey, deer, and other wild game!. Fish (which they were also taught to use as fertilizer by native americans), Corn, potatoes, and other veggies that they were taught to grow!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Umm, Colonial Bread!. Duh!.

oh, and something called "pemmican"!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

About the same as today, roots,they dug out of the ground, things that grew on trees and dead animals!.Www@QuestionHome@Com