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Cape Cod Recipes
Old & New Meats & Game  Captain Edward Penniman's House My Great, Great Grandfather While
the Cape's cooking is best known for fish and shellfish, plenty of good
meat and game dishes were and still are made.After all,
it's not as if there was a supermarket or butcher shop handy in 1803.
Or perhaps there was, it was just a little more direct.
There were and still are deer, rabbit, quail, ducks and geese there for someone who wants to make the effort, and you can of course find all sorts of good things in the local butcher shop. Some of these are original recipes, dating back as far as the 1700's, or earlier. You see they were passed down , Mother to Daughter, but not usually written down. Some are not. When at all possible I will try to use modern methods to make it clearer. Here is an exerpt from the pilgrims 1st couple years here to understand how they survived. The
first Pilgrim Thanksgiving in the fall of 1621 was a bountiful feast,
but the inventory taken afterwards in preparation for winter proved the
Pilgrims had grossly overestimated their harvest. The only way they
could possibly get through the winter was to cut in half the already
weekly rations of food. To make matters even worse, the ship Fortune
arrived shortly thereafter with 35 new settlers. Only three were women.
They came empty-handed and poorly clothed; ill-equipped for the
approaching winter. Bradford wrote, "They were lusty young men, and
many of them wild enough, who little considered whither or about what
they went.-But there was not so much as biscuit or cake or any other
victuals for them, neither had they bedding, but some sorry things they
had in their cabins; not a pot nor pan to dress any meat in; nor over
many clothes.-The Plantation was glad enough of this strength, but
could have wished that many of them had been of better condition, and
all of them better furnished with provisions...to learn more click
here...
The First Years You can also take a visit to a website that includes my ancestors. John Alden and Priscilla Mullens, and Capt'n Edward Penniman.There is also a website on my great Aunt, and her husband who saved the Hawks on Hawk Mountain. I am also related to Longfellow, and Marilyn Monroe. It's a small world isn't it? Back home we have Willow trees my grandfather planted, he took the clippings from Longfellows grave. There were 13 of them that survived, but now I'm not sure how many are left. It's been a hundred years. When I left Cape Cod twenty years ago they were all 4 to 5 feet around in diameter, and some bigger than that...and very, very tall. Life is amazing, the circle.... http://www.mayflower.org/ http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/112penniman/112penniman.htm http://www.hawkmountain.org/default/irma_broun.htm |