Is turkey with cranberry sauce a Native American dish?

Question

Is turkey with cranberry sauce a Native American dish?

Answer 1

Turkey and cranberries were native to North America.

Native Americans used cranberries and other berries to flavor meat and also wild rice.

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Answer 2

hah! turkey "gobble gobble"

Answer 3

I think it is reasonable to guess at some point before European settlement someone has eaten turkey and cranberries together. But I don't know if it was necessarily a Native American *dish* per se.

This wiki link gives a little information suggesting perhaps Native Americans introduced cranberries to the settlers who incorporated them into the Thanksgiving feast.

That doesn't directly answer your question however.

Answer 4

http://www.tahtonka.com/food.html

IDK

I would say no

making the sauce must have come from the Europeans

who made jams and jellies for decades..???

the cranberry is rather bitter raw

Answer 5

Not the way it's eaten today. Turkey was eaten, roasted over a spit and cranberries where boiled and mashed or used with other foods like wild rice.