What did the Puritans eat in the 1600's?

Question

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Answer 1

If you are thinking of the first settlement, they ate very little because they were so short of food.  The Indians and one in particular, who had returned from England to find his tribe vanished, saved the settlement, by showing them how to plant crops.  They also ate pumpkin and wild turkey, hence Thanksgiving.

Answer 2

Depends on the exact area and season.  Some were real bad off and it was rotten meat and moldy bread. Other places had a great deal of seafood, available hunting, and managed to get crops going. Everything was seasonal so food was "put up for winter" which means canned and jerky or salted meat.  Everything got used. Pies were a common way to use up bits of leftover scraps. Spices were expensive but very necessary for preservation in times without refrigerators.

Answer 3

Read about the Salem witch trials.  You will learn that a certain fungus that lives in the rye they made bread with caused the insanity that instigated the hangings.

Other than that, they ate jerky because it was preserved, fish they caught, vegetables they planted and breads from the grains they harvested.