Children couldn't even sit down. When a meal was good they couldn't say that it was good.
There was not much milk in the winter. Instead the colonists used sweetened cider thined with water. Sometimes they soaked bread in it.
If you were not as wealthy as your neighbors, you would hide your fish in the cupboard when they came to visit. This is because you wouldnot want them to know that you eat cheap fish.
Once an English gentleman wrote to his family: They sell a fine fresh cod that will weigh a dozen pounds or more for about two pence sterling. He thought the fish was very cheap!
Getting food wasn't as easy as going to the super market. Most of the food was hunted, grown in the family garden, fished for or came from the animals on the farm.
The prople thought water made you sick. There weren't as many cows as there are now, so people did not drink very much milk. You probably wonder what people did drink. Well they drank peach and apple cider. Beer was also a main drink for children and adults!
On Sunday Colonial families ate baked beans. The mother of the family would start baking the beans on Saturday night. She would put molasses and a piece of salt pork, along with the beans into a pot called a bake kettle. She would leave the beans in the fireplace all night. In the morning they were ready to eat.
The Colonial people saved lots of their vegtables by pickling them. This means they put the vegtables in vinegar for a while. The meat was saved by puting it in the smoke house. It would get dry and the smoke made a safe coating.