Does anyone know of any popular foods/dishes from the American Revolution time period?

Question

I need to prepare a popular dish (includes desserts) that people ate during the American Revolution time period for a social studies project. Does anybody know of any?

Answer 1

I ate at the Christina Campbell Inn in Williamsburg (can't get much more Revolutionary War period than that...) several years ago and had a fairly decent meal.

We had creamy peanut soup, a small steak stuffed with oysters (yuk), crab cakes, corn pudding, some roasted root vegetables and spoon bread. Dessert was some kind of a bread pudding kind of thing with a vanilla sauce over it.

Hope this helps

Answer 2

This recipe was made 54 years before the Revolutionary War but would have still been used during the War. It's called Dr. Zabdiel Boylston's Honeycomb Pudding. Dr. Zabdiel Boylston, who braved the threat of mob violence in 1721 in order to get Bostonians inoculated against smallpox, favored this excellent pudding.

DR. ZABDIEL BOYLSTON'S HONEYCOMB PUDDING

1/2 c flour
1/2 c sugar
1/2 tsp each cloves, cinnamon and allspice
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 c butter - melted
1/2 c warm milk
4 eggs, beaten
1 T soda in 1 cup molasses

Stir together the dry ingredients. Add the rest of the ingredients and pour the mixture quickly into a buttered baking dish. Bake in a 350º oven about 30 minutes. Turn out on a hot plate. When the pudding is sliced, the honeycomb will show.

HONEYCOMB PUDDING SAUCE

1 c sugar
1/4 c butter
juice of 1 lemon
1 egg, beaten
1/4 tsp salt
3 tsp cornstarch
1 c boiling water

Cream the sugar and butter, add the rest of the ingredients and cook over low heat, stirring constantly until thickened. Serve the pudding and sauce warm.

Answer 3

Corn chowder, pinto beans and ham, a fish soup of whiting with onion and galic and cellery,you can thicken it with a bit of canned milk and some instant potatoes. Chicken stewed with carrots and onions and cellery and basil -- lots of biscuits and real butter. Most meals were cooked in one pot over a fireplace in the home. Venison stew would also be good, add some beef stock and cabbage and tomatoes and potatoes. They often had no meat at all just veggies, also boiled turnips. Well my mind is running off at the mouth hope this helps some.

Answer 4

homemade bread. its so easy.
white bread recipe

1 1/2 tsp yeast
4 cups bread flour
2 Tbsp sugar
2 tsp salt
2 Tbsp dry milk
2 Tbsp butter
1 1/4c + 1 Tbsp water

Yeast in Warm Water: When you are ready to activate and use the yeast, mix it into WARM water. Not hot, not cold. It should be comfortable against the inside of your wrist.

Cook at the Proper Temperature: It's tempting in our fast-paced world to rush to get things done. Bread takes time to rise and cook properly. Don't try to cut corners and rush it. Bake it at the proper time listed, give it time to rise and cook. You'll be very impressed at how delicious the final result is if you take your time!
hope i helped