The Importance Of Christmas Traditions To Colonial America By Nancy Day

Imagine if Christmas dinner was beaver tail instead of ham or turkey. Food is very vital. Food is hunted, grown, and cooked. According to Nancy Day, who wrote the book, Your Travel Guide to Colonial America, Colonial America was between 1607-1750. Food was very simple and interesting. People did not have a lot of materials to help make their food. Christmas was not that popular to celebrate but when people did celebrate they decorated and did things for their religion. Most people just observed as people celebrated. Yes, there are some similarities from Colonial times to modern day American society like their recipes are still used and Christmas traditions are still around. Overall, the way people celebrated Christmas and the ways they made food were very different from Colonial

To begin, the food citizens ate during the Colonial time period were very different and were pretty simple. Food was very important and so was the kitchen and they used a lot of crops just not as much as modern American society. They got any meat they could find, and any crops they could find, for example, beaver tail. One of the most common and tasty recipes was the Red Flannel Hash. According to the author Lucille Penner who wrote the book, The Colonial Cookbook, all of the crops were at easy access. “Red Flannel Hash gets its dark red color from the beets that are stirred into it. The ingredients needed are 4 small beets; 2 large potatoes; 1 pound chopped hamburger or corned beef, chopped; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 1/8 teaspoon pepper; 2 tablespoon butter and 1 medium onion” (Penner 47). This means that food was often very easy to make and the difference between food during the Colonial time period and modern-day American society was very different. Additionally, Penner also mentions how the