Cooking on the Trail

Pioneer people were also called early settlers. They did not have many of the foods we have today. Almost every meal they ate had corn as one of the dishes.  They ate things like dried corn, cream corn, hull corn, dried corn mush, and sometimes they ate corn bread. Some people still eat these foods.  Another thing they had was crabapple jelly, and sun-dried fruit. Sometimes for dessert they ate huckleberry pie, and pumpkin pie. Pioneers collected blackberries, gooseberries, and blueberries. Another common pioneer food was doughnuts. To read a recipe for doughnuts click here. If  you would like to learn how to make raspberry quencher click here. Pioneers could not eat meat all the time; they needed vitamins so they collected all kinds of fruit that grew wild in the woods.

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