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Thanksgiving
and the New England Pie:
Cranberry Tart |
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Native Americans introduced the American
cranberry to the English settlers. Cranberries, however, would not have been completely
unfamiliar. A small variety of cranberry, known as a "Marsh Whort," is found in
England and an herbal known to be in the library of Mayflower passenger
Myles Standish described the plant.
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| Cranberries were part of the New England diet by 1650.
According to John Josselyn’s 1672 New Englands Rarities Discovered, |
"The Indians and English use them much, boyling them with Sugar for Sauce…
Some make tarts with them as with Goose Berries."
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| Most directions for cooking cranberries, whether 17th century or 20th
century, are still simply "boil them with sugar." |
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| "Flour and dough, and plates and pans. So many sleeves rolled
up, so many white arms made whiter with flour dust. Such pleasant South Sea smells of
spices, and such clouds of irresistible steam and odors. … And large pans of stewed
pumpkin, strained through sieves, and colored richly with milk that blankets itself, every
night, with cream. And dishes of cranberry, all prepared for its deft transmutation into
tarts." |
Homespun; or,
Five and Twenty Years Ago
by Thomas Lackland, 1867. |
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| Click HERE for a 1796
recipe for Cranberry Tart |
| Click HERE for an
1891 recipe for Cranberry Pie |
| Click HERE for an
1897 recipe for Cranberry Pie |
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