Traditional Thanksgiving Foods & Recipes
Pioneering Today Podcast - Homesteading in a Modern World
Melissa K Norris
4.8 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Learn which foods were served in 1621 and how they've changed to what we typically serve now. Plus, how to use some of these traditions in your holiday meal prep from the food you've grown and harvested, along with my families favorite traditional Thanksgiving recipes.
You'll be surprised by the list of foods served back then, and maybe more so by the foods not served at the first Thanksgiving.
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| 1:25.6 | I thought it would be fun to take a look at traditions today. |
| 1:29.2 | Specifically speaking about the traditions of Thanksgiving, both the reason that we have the holiday, |
| 1:35.2 | the traditional foods that were served there, which in some regards differ quite a bit |
| 1:40.0 | from what we now consider in modern times a traditional Thanksgiving meal. |
| 1:46.3 | I always think that it's important to look at our past |
| 1:50.0 | so that we don't forget the things that are important or lose skill sets and then we take those |
| 1:55.2 | and figure out how to use it in our modern world. |
| 2:00.1 | Thank you for joining me on this episode of the Pioneering Today podcast, which is episode number 121, where we are all about helping families raise, preserve, and cook their own food from scratch using old-fashioned skill sets and |
| 2:15.3 | knowledge for a natural and self-sufficient home. So at the time of this recording |
| 2:21.1 | Thanksgiving is coming up shortly. |
| 2:24.0 | In today's time, most of us have a few things, food dishes that are traditionally served at |
| 2:29.1 | Thanksgiving dinner. |
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