During the time of the movement west, food played an important role in the pioneers day to day life. Food played an important role during the 1800s because it kept people alive during hard times. The pioneers stored their food in many different ways, and they ate, prepared, and made their own food.
The pioneers stored their food in some different ways, being close to how we store it now. The most popular way to store food was to can it. They would cram their food in glass jars in order to make it fit. Once the food was placed into the jars the pioneers corked the jars till it was air tight. You still today can put food in cans to keep it from going bad. Another way they stored their food was put in an ice box. An ice box acted as a refrigerator
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The pioneers ate some kind of bread every meal, especially biscuits. Biscuits were served the most at every meal. They also ate corn bread, toast, cold bread, hot light bread, banana nut bread, and many other kinds of bread. Bread was enjoyed by everyone around. They also ate a lot of what we eat now. For example, they made their own chips. To make chips you first, peel a raw potato as apples are peeled. Then make sure the chips are the same thickness, and let the chips be as long as possible. You then dry them thoroughly with a cloth and put them in the frying- basket. Then plunge it in a boiling hot lard. When the chips are golden color, drain them well in front of the fire. You can then sprinkle fine salt over them and serve them. The chips are very tasty in the end if you do it correctly. Another thing is they drank a lot of beer. Even women would drink beer on a regular basis. Sometimes the water was not super good so, that was their alternative. Most people made their own beer, and even the kids helped brew it. There are beer recipes from generation after generation. Some even had sacred cookbooks with their families beer recipes in it. If you did not have money to eat well, you would drink beer. It was also a lot cheaper to brew beer than to buy food. Some of their meals were different, from what we call them now. For example, lunch was called dinner. Dinner (lunch) was the main meal of …show more content…
When you normally cooked you would use a cook stove. They used cookstoves to cook almost all of their food. Cookstoves also helped to keep water warm during the day. You would generally keep your cook stove burning the entire day. You made the cookstove warm by adding wood. If you used dry oak or other dry wood, you were doing fast cooking. If someone used green wood, or wood not completely dry, then slow cooking was being done. If you were going to to buy a cook stove it would normally cost about $20. If a pioneer had $20 to spend easily on a cook stove, then they were very rich. A cook stove acted as an oven and a stove. Not only did they just cook their food but, they had to get it somewhere. They grew lots of different foods. They grew, sweet potatoes, watermelons, beans, grapes, pumpkins, and lot of others. Of course, it depended on the season on what you could grow, which limited you to what you could eat. The pioneers also consumed many of their animals. Animals such as chickens, chicken eggs, cows, fish, turkeys, pigs, and many others were a source of food for the pioneers. You would want a lot of animals so, you could eat them. They also had to make their own butter. To make butter you had to use a butter churn. There were many different types of butter churns including Rocker Churns, Dash Churns, Wooden barrel churns, Tin churns, stoneware churns, and glass churn jars. You would have a plunger and
Nourishment was also an essential part of their everyday life and just like in the Stone Age era, the natives were classified as hunter-gatherers. The hunting was mainly done by the men and the women would be in charge of the cooking and the collection of edible plants. However; these activities were not set in stone and sometimes men would do the cooking while women made the
Everyone’s got to eat, and for the Seminoles the women did the cooking for everyone. In the center of camp was a cooking and dining house with a fire pit. On the hammocks they grew pumpkins, melons, and beans. Corn was a staple food. It was most important for soups and breads. Sofiki is a popular soup eaten with one spoon, and everyone eats from one large bowl. They also eat a lot of meat, such as alligator, deer, turkey, duck, rabbit, opossum, squirrel, and sometimes bear. They used blowguns to shoot small animals. Plants, nuts, and berries were also important. To make a certain flour, they used the stems of the arrowroot plant. They were well fed.
During that time period, food was a woman’s primary concern, it was up to her to ensure that there was food prepared and ready for others in the household, it was her responsibility. Bynum focuses on emphasizing the fact that food
They were unprepared for life in the wilderness. Most had the impression that everything would be easy in the new world. The men and boys who first settled in Jamestown were townsmen and gentlemen. “They had come expecting to find gold, friendly Indians, and easy living.” (America: A Narrative History, 57) This information was given to them before making the journey to the new world. The settles were also told they would be provided with everything they would need, but supplies from England were undependable. When they arrived there was no town or any shelter waiting for them. They had to learn how to hunt and grow their own food, which they were not use to or even knew how to do in this untamed world. Captain John Smith took charge of the colony ensuring that of the 38 original survivors had to pull their own weight. He used various means to archive his goals and through his efforts Jamestown pulled through. After a period called the “Starving Time,” (America: A Narrative History, 60), where most of the colonist died, a man named John Rolfe provided a way for the colony to survive. He was able to acquire tobacco seeds from the Spanish and with it he made the colony a source of trade (America: A Narrative History, 61). Tobacco and other grown good where used to improve the lives of the colonies, but their daily lives were still very harsh as they were
Without the Westward Movement, where would the United States be today? It’d be much further behind other countries and not the power house it currently is. The pioneers were trailblazers. They took in all the hardships and jumped over hurdles that stood in their way to allow future generations to thrive.
The common people were restricted to products of wheat and barley such as batters , bread and so on . Surely in all classes they used in meals vegetables , cheeses and fruits of the season, depending of course on the region they lived within.
Many African-Americans consume what is known as “soul food”, for which, it is very popular within the black community. Soul food is an African-American cuisine that can be traced back as far as African, however, the term itself was not coined until the mid-1960s. It also comprise an important element of the cuisine of the general American south. Soul food was adopted and modify during the African slave trade and it was during this time food African cuisine and southern European cuisine became one big melting pot.
The earliest known records of the Cheyenne Indians are from the mid 1600s. They were a nomadic peoples whom lived completely off the land. Originally, the Cheyennes lived in larger masses, residing in homes they called wigwams. Eventually, as they became a nomadic peoples, they converted to the usage of a teepee as a home. A Cheyenne teepee was primarily made of buffalo-hide and could be easily moved form place to place, following along behind the buffalo herds. The hunting of buffalo was no easy feat, as the Cheyennes hunted on foot, with bow and arrow. However, the Cheyennes thrived on buffalo; their meat provided food, there hides provided warmth, and the bones allowed for bows, cooking utensils and toys. Also, the sinew made bowstring and sewing equipment.
The Westward Expansion has often been regarded as the central theme of American history, down to the end of the19th century and as the main factor in the shaping of American history. As Frederick Jackson Turner says, the greatest force or influence in shaping American democracy and society had been that there was so much free land in America and this profoundly affected American society. Motives After the revolution, the winning of independence opened up the Western country and was hence followed by a steady flow of settlers to the Mississippi valley. By 1840, 10 new western states had been added to the Federal union. The frontier line ran through Iowa, Missouri and Arkansas on the western side of the river. All parts of the valley except Wisconsin and Minnesota were well populated. Thus a whole new section had been colonized with lasting effects on the American institutions, ideals and ways of living. The far west was the land of high mountains, deserts, strange rock formations, brilliant colors and immense distance. Fur trade with Europe had now become a lucrative business and the fur traders became the pathfinders for the settlers. Migration was now possible by the discovery of paths over which ox-driven carts could be driven through seeking mountains and across the western desert. People wanted to move away from the overcrowded cities and this led to the migration into the uninhabited lands. Increased transportation like roads, railroads and canals and their construction created a demand for cheap labor making it easier for people to get jobs now, in contrast with the cities where there was unemployment. The pioneer movement for 70 years after the revolution roughly represented the form of 3 parallel streams, flowing westwards from New England, Virginia and South Carolina. The first pioneer groups tended to move directly westward. Thus the new Englanders migrated into western New York and along the shores of the great lakes, Virginians into Kentucky and then into Missouri and the South Carolinians and Georgians into the gulf territories. Throughout the settlement of the Mississippi valley, most pioneers did not travel long distances and as a territory had been occupied, families would move into the adjacent one. There were boom periods of great activity, during which million acres of land were sold, alternated ...
One method of the nomadic plains tribes for cooking was to use rawhide cooking vessels which came from the hump of the buffalo, staked over a mound of earth and left to dry in the shape of a bowl. The pot was put in a shallow hole near the fire, and then carefully selected stones that would not shatter easily would be put in the fire and transferred to the bowl with wood or bone tongs to heat the contents of the pot.
In “Promise of the High Plains,” a flyer created in the 1800s, it states, “The finest timber West of the Great Wabash Valley” (The Railroaders) when trying to convince the people why to move west. This flyer shows that Americans were advertising the timber on the western land to convince more people to move. Buffalo was also a very important resource for the Native American culture and way of life. Buffalo was used for food, clothing, and housing. Not only were Buffalo used for survival, but they were also part of their religious rituals.
On February 24, 1864 the first two hundred prisoners of Andersonville Prison arrived at the local train station. The prisoners were then led like cattle to the still unfinished pine stockade. When the prisoners entered the stockade they saw a large open area surrounded on three sides by a large pine wall. There were no shelters of any kind to protect the prisoners from the elements. The underbrush had also not been properly cleared out and there was still vegetation on the ground. The food was issued in small rations, and all food was raw. The cookhouse was still unfinished and there were no pots or pans to cook the rations, so the prisoners had to scavenge some firewood and use whatever implements they could find to cook their first meal(Roberts, 26).
The American diet has changed drastically in the last seventy years in America. From how much Americans consume to how it is produced food has become something totally different than it was seventy years ago. “American are consuming more food and several hundred more calories per person per day than their counterparts in the late 1950s” (USDA). This is a shocking statement because you would think that Americans are becoming healthier than their counterparts in the late 50s. So how has the American diet changed so much over the past seven decades?
American culture is changing dramatically. In some areas it’s a good thing, but in other areas, like our food culture, it can have negative affects. It is almost as if our eating habits are devolving, from a moral and traditional point of view. The great America, the land of the free and brave. The land of great things and being successful, “living the good life.” These attributes highlight some irony, especially in our food culture. Is the American food culture successful? Does it coincide with “good living”? What about fast and processed foods? These industries are flourishing today, making record sales all over the globe. People keep going back for more, time after time. Why? The answer is interestingly simple. Time, or in other words, efficiency. As people are so caught up in their jobs, schooling, sports, or whatever it may be, the fast/processed food industries are rapidly taking over the American food culture, giving people the choice of hot
The chef in the Indian family, Hassan Kadam, has certain ways to handle the food and present it. The Indian culture uses many herbs and spices which is how he finds the perfect taste in every dish. He strives to make every dish a warm and delightful feeling which is very important to Hassan’s culture. Most of the food he served had bread with it, mostly a certain type called naan. The families who were eating, use the bread as utensils because that is proper etiquette within their beliefs. They would also eat in certain orders in the ranking of the family No matter what food was made in the Indian kitchen, there was also something unique about the dish.