Colonial Time

In Colonial times children had to follow some very strict rules such as, not moving their mouth with any noise and the same for all their other body parts.
Children couldn't even sit down. When a meal was good they couldn't say that it was good.
There was not much milk in the winter. Instead the colonists used sweetened cider thinned with water. Sometimes they soaked bread in it.
If you were not as wealthy as your neighbors, you would hide your fish in the cupboard when they came to visit. This is because you would not want them to know that you eat cheap fish.
Getting food wasn't as easy as going to the super market. Most of the food was hunted, grown in the family garden, fished for or came from the animals on the farm.
The people thought water made you sick. There weren't as many cows as there are now, so people did not drink very much milk. You probably wonder what people did drink. Well they drank peach and apple cider. Beer was also a main drink for children and adults!
On Sunday Colonial families ate baked beans. The mother of the family would start baking the beans on Saturday night. She would put molasses and a piece of salt pork, along with the beans into a pot called a bake kettle. She would leave the beans in the fireplace all night. In the morning they were ready to eat.
The Colonial people saved lots of their vegetables by pickling them. This means they put the vegetables in vinegar for a while. The meat was saved by putting it in the smoke house. It would get dry and the smoke made a safe coating.