Dating practices in the european colonies
06-Dec-2019 07:11
Breads were eaten at all times of the day but particularly at breakfast." ---A Cooking Legacy, Virginia T.Elverson and Mary Ann Mc Lanahan [Walker & Company: New York] 1975 (p. Early afternoon was the appointed hour for dinner in Colonial America.Throughout the seventeenth century and well into the eighteenth century it was served in the "hall" or "common room." ..While dinner among the affluent merchants in the North took place shortly after noon, the Southern planters enjoyed their dinner as late as bubbling stews were carried into the fields to feed the slaves and laborers...An everyday meal might feature only one or two meats with a pudding, tarts, and vegetables...The different betweeen the more prosperous households and more modest ones might be in the quality and quantity of the meat served...
In frontier outposts and on farms, families drank cider or beer and gulped down a bowl of porridge that had been cooking slowly all night over the embers...The size of breakfasts grew in direct proportion to growth of wealth.Breads, cold meats and, especially in the Northeast, fruit pies and pasties joined the breakfast menus.Hooker [Bobbs-Merrill Company: Indianapolis IN] 1981(p. 67) "English settlers in teh seventeenth century ate three meals a day, as they had in England...
For most people, breakfast consisted of bread, cornmeal mush and milk, or bread and milk together, and tea.The first course included several meats plus meat puddings and/or deep meat pies containing fruits and spices, pancakes and fritters, and the ever-present side dishes of sauces, pickles and catsups...