I'll post the answer later.
2006-08-31 03:44:38 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Actually it wasn't specified what class the childrent were in. This was a trivia question in the food section of my local paper. It's really odd, something you wouldn't think was eaten back then, much less for breakfast.
2006-08-31 03:59:21 · update #1
I'm going to answer now just because I have class soon:
Popcorn with a bit cream.
2006-08-31 04:05:43 · update #2
I would guess that the main answer would be cornmeal.
"The day began with breakfast. Breakfast usually consisted of a hot cereal-like dish called samp, which was corn pounded into a powder and eaten hot or cold with milk and butter. Sometimes, if one was lucky, a little molasses was added."
Second article said cornmeal because wheat flour was too expensive for most.
"Breakfast. The Colonial Amerian breakfast was far from the juice, eggs and bacon of today. The stoic early settlers rose early and went straight to the chores that demanded their attention. 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...In the towns, the usual mug of alcoholic beverage consumed upon rising was followed by cornmeal mush and molasses with more cider or beer. By the nineteenth century... "
---A Cooking Legacy, Virginia T. Elverson and Mary Ann McLanahan [Walker & Company:New York] 1975 (p. 14)
P.S. My quick research would indicate that your answer from the trivia section of the paper was wrong. Unless by popcorn they meant cornmeal/mush/porridge (and the cream I believe).
2006-08-31 04:08:57 · answer #1 · answered by Will 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Milk& Bread
2006-08-31 10:52:09 · answer #2 · answered by Adnan Sallam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gruel
2006-09-04 10:52:46 · answer #3 · answered by Beejee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gruel,bread,bacon,egg.
Depends on the class they're in (low,middle,high?)
They will have more proper,well cooked breakfast if they were in the high class.
2006-08-31 13:01:41 · answer #4 · answered by radioconcrete 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quaker Oats?
2006-08-31 10:50:30 · answer #5 · answered by ladywheeler2002 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would guess..bacon , eggs, bread, mush(oatmeal) , and maybe fruit.
Most of the time it was "leftovers" from the previous day
It would also depend on the class of people..rich , middle, or poor?
2006-08-31 10:51:33 · answer #6 · answered by elvisdan77 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Porridge, bread soaked in milk.
2006-08-31 12:17:45 · answer #7 · answered by Marie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Scotland it would be porridge and wild fruits if in season.
2006-08-31 11:09:50 · answer #8 · answered by Norman H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mcdonald breakfast....
2006-09-04 10:35:30 · answer #9 · answered by samdesign78 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they ate porridge and fruit and veggies..but no pizza!!ór M´cDonald´s!
2006-08-31 10:51:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋