Stay ConnectedStarting with the first English settlements in the 17th Century, this podcasts traces how we went from barrels of salted meat & peas to Korean bbq tacos and the largest grocery store selections ever seen anywhere in the world. We’ll go everywhere – and it is full of surprises.
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Deer are 17th Century Colonial Food. But because they are seen as free, and not well managed, they quickly fall off the regular American Menu. Learn about the toughest meat everyone ate for a few years, but then only the richest and poorest ended up eating… and still eat today.
Venison will go largely into eclipse, but not the deer antler handle.
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17th Century bread had plenty of fiber, and occasionally some very tiny rocks. The hand milled grain - and initially this was mostly corn - that went into to the early breads was more meal than flour, so bread was rather dense. More of an unleavened fireside puck than a familiar loaf.
It would take decades and the settlement of early Pennsylvania before the bread we would recognize became somewhat common. From those earliest colonial campsites… ovens had to be built, the bread tools had to be carved, the wheat successfully grown and to get a regular barm (yeast) supply, they had to get the beer brewing.
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No coffee? No orange juice? No sparkling water? What did the 17th C colonists drink to wake up, to refresh themselves? Beer of course.
The problem was… it was bad beer. Join me to find out why, and how long it lasted.
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Corn bread and Pumpkin beer - that was some serious suffering in the 17th century. Finally the competent farmers showed up in Pennsylvania to grow the real grains the English colonists missed in the New World.
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
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How does milk work so you can take a liquid and make it in to solids?
This episode I talk about how liquid milk, which will just go bad on you in a second was turned into butter and cheese so it could travel around the 17th Century American food world.
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
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Did you know milk fresh from the cow is 101F/38C ?
That's right, a "cold glass of milk" wasn't really a thing in 17th Century Colonial America. But people still drank or supped on liquid dairy. Find out how - and learn about the most cow to table dessert ever.
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Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
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I finally did it - I've covered all the thingies in my logo! Beef, Sugar and Iron (though that cowboy coffee pot will remain empty until the 18th Century). 17th Century beef did not come in steaks - rather gobbets and slices, or reconstituted from salting or stringy, stringy jerky.
And what good is a steak knife if you don't yet have a fork?
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Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
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Another reason for America at all... Cows. Arable England was all out of room - and there were lots of casks of salt beef the Navy needed to buy. So, go grow cows in the New World! This episode looks at just what a cow is, and how they got to Colonial America.
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
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Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
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Digging out the rest of the vegetables our 17th Century pre-Americans were eating. But really showing how vegetables are involved in the North-South rift, and just how early that started. While it was partly the weather, it turns out religion, economics, labor policies and farm kids vs. city kids all had a hand in it. I was surprised how what could have been a very small topic went so for afield.
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
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How and why the 17th century colonists made a distinction between pumpkin and squash. One was good and the other bad. Spoiler alert - those Puritan Pilgrims had some ideas about bright colors and what made a loose woman.
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
Show Notes: https://thehistoryofamericanfood.blogspot.com/
Email: TheHistoryofAmericanFood@gmail.com
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Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
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