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Nov 18, 2011 · For many Americans, the Thanksgiving meal includes seasonal dishes such as roast turkey with stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie. The holiday dates back to November 1621 ...
- Turkey. There’s a good chance the Pilgrims and Wampanoag did in fact eat turkey as part of that very first Thanksgiving. Wild turkey was a common food source for people who settled Plymouth.
- Mashed Potatoes. Keep dreaming. At the time the Pilgrims celebrated their first Thanksgiving, most Europeans had never even seen a potato, let alone learned to mash them and drown them in gravy.
- Cranberry Sauce. By fall 1621, the Pilgrims were essentially out of sugar. Translation—no cranberry sauce. Even with sugar, the Pilgrims still wouldn’t have used it to sauce cranberries.
- Corn. It’s very, very likely the Pilgrims and Wampanoag ate corn for the first Thanksgiving—but not the frozen kind that you heat up in the microwave (obviously).
May 2, 2024 · 2 cups heavy cream or milk 1/2 cups brown sugar 1 tablespoon molasses 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon ginger 2 tablespoons butter Whipped cream, optional. Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Cut lid off pumpkin and scoop out seeds. Mix remaining ingredients except butter and pour in pumpkin. Top with butter.
Nov 23, 2021 · What They (Likely) Did Have at the First Thanksgiving. Venison. Fowl (geese and duck) Corn. Nuts (walnuts, chestnuts, beechnuts) Shellfish. So venison was a major ingredient, as well as fowl, but that likely included geese and ducks. Turkeys are a possibility, but were not a common food in that time. Pilgrims grew onions and herbs.
2 days ago · When we think of Thanksgiving meats, turkey is top of mind for most of us, and indeed the Pilgrims did eat turkey in 1621, as reported by Plymouth governor William Bradford. Most of the fowl shot by Pilgrim and Native hunters, though, were ducks and geese, as Plymouth lies on a bustling migratory flyway , and waterfowl would have been plentiful at that time of year.
2 days ago · A giant Pilgrim-themed turkey float is a fixture in New York’s annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Hiroko Masuike/Getty Images Did they or didn’t they eat it? The only firsthand record of what the Pilgrims ate at the first thanksgiving feast comes from Edward Winslow. He noted that the Wampanoag leader, Massasoit, arrived with 90 men ...
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Nov 21, 2011 · Senior Editor. November 21, 2011. Traditional Thanksgiving dinner includes turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes but the First Thanksgiving likely included wildfowl, corn, porridge and venison ...
