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Colonial Cooking. By: Ethan. Tools Used to Cook. A peel was used to take bread out of the hot oven Skillets had legs on them so it could stand up on coals Coal was placed in the oven so it could be lighted so they could cook
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Colonial Cooking By: Ethan
Tools Used to Cook • A peel was used to take bread out of the hot oven • Skillets had legs on them so it could stand up on coals • Coal was placed in the oven so it could be lighted so they could cook • Most tools used to cook were make of iron to withstand the fire used to cook
How Colonists Got Food • Men trapped, hunted, or fished for meat • Women grew fruits, and vegetables
What the Colonists Ate A sample of what they ate for breakfast: Cornmeal, and cider A sample of what they ate for dinner( in their time dinner was a mid-day meal) Stew, stale bread, and cider or beer A sample of what they ate for supper: Gruel, and ale (On special occasions colonists ate sweets)
Credits Works Cited • Ariana and Rachel. www.ssdsbergen.org/Colonial/food.htm. Soloman Schechter School, n.d. Web. 5 Apr. 2011. • Eden, Trudy. Cooking in America 1590-1840. Westport, Conneticut: Greenwood Press, 2006. Print. • Montgomery Schools. www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/forestoakms/site pages/academics/social studies/colonisl times/baker.html. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 Apr. 2011. • Olver, Lynne. http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodcolonial.html. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Apr. 2011. • Richard, Nannete. “About Cooking in Colonial Times.” www.ehow.com/about_4566338_cooking-colonial-times.html. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Apr. 2011.