MID-ATLANTIC STATES

SETTLEMENTS

• When you think of that area, you think of pilgrims.
• But the first settlement was the Dutch not English
• The came to New York about 17 years before them
• The Jewish have stamped their mark in New York
• They have very good food which attracts people of other faith

EGG CREAMS

• Egg creams are found no where but New York
• Even though their name, the had no egg
• They are made of chocolate, syrup, milk...
• ...and carbonated water
• A true New Yorkers drink

AMISH

• They are known as plain people do to their clothing
• Women wore hair in braids with bonnets, and me had beards
• They do not believe in cars, telephones, or even electricity at all
• They uses horses to pull buggies and plows to farm the land
• The foods they make are known as Pennsylvania Dutch

SCRAPPLE

• Pork plays an important part of all cuisines here
• In scrapple they uses all part but the squeal
• They take leftover pork, and yes all of it...
• ...and cook it with cornmeal, herbs, and cooked in a pan
• The also use a lot of ham and sausages across the states

SAFFON AND SOUP

• Though the Dutch were thrifty they used a lot of saffron
• They used it in chicken and noodle dishes, soups and gravies
• Chicken corn soup is a famous Pennsylvania Dutch dish
• Using saffron, chicken, noodles and cut corn ears
• Another famous is pepper pot soup

7 SWEETS AND 7 SOURS

• When a Dutch homemaker would cool, they would prepare 7 sweets and 7 sours
• These foods included vinegar, augment, with main dishes with meat and potatoes
• There would be many little bowls with cantaloupe, pepper cabbage, cole slaw...
• ...bread and butter pickles, cranberries jelly, chow chow, pepper relish and more
• Deserts were potatoes. Mashed, creamed, roasted fried any thing

SHOOFLY PIE

• Desert was always pie. It was eaten 3 times a day
• The Pennsylvania Dutch "shoo fly pie" is most identified
• The filling is molasses, boiling water and baking soda
• It was so sweet, it would attract flies
• Other popular pies are: apple, pumpkin peach and many more

FUNNEL CAKES

• They are a Pennsylvania Dutch breakfast food
• The batter is placed into a large funnel where in flows Into hot oil
• One person controls it with their finger, until it is brown them it is flipped
• Traditionally they were eaten with molasses and sausage from a mid morning meal
• Now they are eaten at fairs and festivals with powered sugar

APPLES

• Apples have been a part of our food supply from the beginning
• Pilgrims brought apple seeds over, so did the Spaniards with Columbus
• The Romans enjoyed the fruit a lot too. The spread seeds in travels
• And they're even was a Johnny Appleseed! He was a preacher
• Who brought seeds with him from 1800-1845

NEW ENGLAND STATES

• Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maine, New Hampshire...
• ...Connecticut and Vermont. 4 were part of the origins, colonies
• The costal sates have rocky soil and small farming plots
• Foods from New England very from heritage across
• Foods that are typical are adapted Native American foods

CAPE COD

• When pilgrims first came they couldn't farm, hunt or fish
• So they natives taught them
• They salted cod and used it to provide all winter long
• It is so valuable they they named a place after it
• Is served with white sauce, bacon, cabbage, potatoes and carrots

LOBSTERS

• New England or Maine lobsters are considers the best
• The only place they live us in the cold water from canada to North Carolina
• All flesh is cooked, opposed to rock or spiny lobsters
• Lobster is usually eaten with corn or potatoes
• They're is a lobster roll, lobster in white sauce on a hot dog bun

MOLASSES

• The Yankee ships would be loaded with items for trading
• They gave native Americans cod, for molasses in the Caribbean
• That's how they would make rum
• Early new englanders were thrifty
• They would buy cheap molasses to sweeten their food

JOURNEY OR JOHNNY CAKE

• Indians taught settlers to carry ground corn on a journey
• When the tracker became hungry, they would add water and eat it.
• Sometimes cooking it. Giving it it's name
• Hasty pudding was a quick way to make a nourishing meal
• Today is is called corn mush

CRANBERRIES

• Today in Plymouth there is a whole museum dedicated to them
• It was one of the natives favorite fruits. They would grind it with meat..
• ..and pour fat on it to make pemmican. It was very healthy
• The pilgrims called the "crane berries" becaue of their crane shaped blossom
• Massachusetts and Wisconsin are where majority of cranberries are grown today

RED FLANNEL HASH

• Vermonters were thrifty, making this dish with leftovers
• The took salted meat, potatoes, cabbage, beets & carrots
• And ground them up and baked into a hash.
• Since the beets gave this dish a red color, it was known as
• Red flannel hash.

MAPLE SYRUP

• Coming from Vermont, it is used as a sweetener
• Early settlers observed Indians collecting sap from trees
• Now it is iconic, and every spring they have a celebration
• The put snow in hot pans, and pour hot syrup into it
• That makes delicious candy, eaten with pickles and doughnuts