Middle Atlantic And the Eastern Heartland
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland make up the Middle Colonies, that were among the thirteen original states.
EGG CREAM
Egg creams exist no where else but New York. It does not have any egg in it, but made of chocolate syrup, milk, and carbonated water.
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AMISH
Amish people were called the Plain People, because of their plain dress and their life style. Amish people do not believe in cars, electricity, telephones or tractors.
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SCRAPPLE
For making scrapple, people say that they use all parts of the pig except the squeal. Leftover scraps of pork are mixed with cornmeal and herbs, and cooked in a loaf pan.
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SAFFRON
Saffron is the world's most costly spice. It takes 75,000 handpicked stamens to create one pound of Saffron.
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SOUP
Chicken corn soup is one of the most famous Pennsylvania Dutch dishes that haw saffron inside. Souprs are a very important part of the cuisine and made from most every type of food.
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7 SWEETS AND 7 SOURS
These food would be served with the main dish of meat and potatoes. Relishes such as pepper cabbage would be served with sweet and sour dressing. Some sweets would be desserts like puddings.
SHOOFLY PIE
It is a one crust pie with crumb toppings. Its fillings molasses, boiling water and baking soda. The name is from the fact that the pie is so sweet, you have to shoo the flies away.
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FUNNEL CAKES
Funnel cakes are often enjoyed in fairs and festivals. The batter is placed in a tin funnel with hot oil and cooked into a spiral shape.
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APPLES
Pilgrims brought apple seeds with them from England in 1620. When the Americans went west, the apples followed. Johnny Appleseed actually existed and planted nurseries of more than ten thousand square miles.
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NEW ENGLAND AREA
are Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Vermont. Foods typical in New England Area are combination of Native Americans' and adapted English food, and bounty of the ocean.
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CAPE COD DINNER
The Cape Cod dinner is boiled salted cod served with white sauce and accompanied with bacon, carrots, potatoes and head cabbage. This recipe was formulated for salted fish back then.
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LOBSTERS
New England or Maine's lobsters are considered gourmand's lobsters. At fast food sea food shops in New England, popular is Lobster Roll, bite sized lobster pieces in a hot dog bun.
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MOLASSES
Yankee ships would take salted cod and trade it for molasses, a product for rum-making, in the Carribean Islands. New Englanders would use cheap molasses to sweeten their foods.
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JOURNEY OR JOHNNY CAKE
Early settlers learned from Native Americans to take corn with them during journeys. Travelers would mix maize with water and sometimes cook it. This would be called Johnny or Journey Cake.
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CRANBERRIES
The Native Americans would take meat and grind it up with cranberries, giving them vitamin C. They also used cranberries as dye or for arrow wounds.
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RED FLANNEL HASH
Vermonters would eat salted meat boiled with potatoes, cabbage, carrots, and beets. After the dinner, they would ground it and make it into hash. Because the beets made the hash red, it is known as red flannel hash.
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MAPLE SUGAR
Early settlers learned how to make maple syrup from sap from the Native Americans. In Vermont, after most of the sap is boiled into syrup, guests to "sugaring off" party will have pans of clean packed snow and the syrup is poored into it, hardening immediately to create candy.
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