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Nantucket Corn Pudding - A creamy corn casserole topped with a buttery, cheesy cracker crust. Perfect Thanksgiving side dish.

Here’s a REALLY yummy cookie that your child can help you make and know what’s really cool about it? It’s from a 1784 Colonial American recipe book. My affiliate links are included below. I may earn a few cents if purchases are made through the links. See my Disclosure policy here. On our visit to this […]

Want to know what the pilgrims ate back then? Take a tour back in time and try these pilgrim Thanksgiving recipes for some flavors of the past.

The tantalizing aroma of this golden loaf baking always draws people into my mother's kitchen. With its circular shape, it's a pretty bread, too. I've never seen it last more than 2 hours once it's out of the oven! — Jeanne Voss, Anaheim Hills, California

Corn pudding evolved from the popular colonial Indian pudding, which was itself a cornmeal adaptation of flour-based English porridge. This dish makes an excellent side at Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner, and kids love it!

Adapted from the City Tavern Cookbook. If you like oysters, give this a try! You can make this ahead if you wish, through the cooking covered for 30 minutes. Cool and refrigerate, then cook the next day uncovered until the top is golden and the stuffing is heated through.

In my search for holiday recipes, I went back to one of my favorite blogs written by the cooks in Colonial Williamsburg’s Historic Foodways. The cooks at the museum and historic site spend ev…

It only takes half an hour to make a batch of biscuits that your guests will never forget.

Don't use self rising flour in this recipe. I got this recipe from an old library book.

Apple pandowdy is a maple flavored or molasses deep dish apple desert. Traditionally the desert is dowdied before serving--that is the crust is broken up with a spoon or knife and stirred into the apple filling. Oddly enough, over the years this type of "messed up" appearance has come more often to be applied to people than to

George and Martha Washington welcomed thousands of guests to Mount Vernon, and were well known for their boundless hospitality, frequent and memorable parties, and for the wide variety of culinary treats served. Explore our 18th-century historic recipes and learn more about food culture at Mount Vernon!

This recipe for George Washington's Favorite Soup makes a meal that is fit for a president! If you have never tasted Virginia peanut soup before, then you are missing out on one of the classic dishes of the colonial era.

Of the one hundred Pilgrims who settled at Plymouth in 1620, nearly half had died within months of hardship, starvation or disease. One of the colony's most

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This is an old recipe that I enjoy making often for my family. I don't think there's anything better than eating hot homemade bread on a cold day.