Welcome To Pilgrims and Pioneers!

After many years of researching my family geneaology I have been lucky enough to discover actual information about my relatives that lived in the Pilgrim Era and the Pioneer Era- while many people also have realtives from those eras- many do not know their names or where they lived- actually seeing the proof in print makes you much more aware of who they really were.
After discovering these relatives it of course made me curious to learn more about the eras that they lived in and what their lives were like as, the history I learned in grade school had long since been forgotten.
I decided to start this blog for others who are also interested in these eras.
Some of the information here will be actual facts about my realtives and some will be information about the eras in general that I have found on the web.
I hope you will enjoy traveling back in time with me!

Friday, December 19, 2008

1796 Mince Meat Pie Recipe


Four pound boil’d beef, chopped fine, and salted; six pound of raw apple chopped also, one pound beef suet, one quart of Wine or rich sweet cyder, one ounce mace, and cinnamon, a nutmeg, two pounds raisins, bake in paste, three fourths of an hour.Observations : All meat pies require a hotter and brisker oven than fruit pies, in good cookeries, all raisins should be stoned.
Courtesy of www.pilgrimhall.org

2 comments:

Olde Dame Penniwig said...

I think those mincemeat "pies" would sit very heavily on the stomach! They certainly sound hearty, don't they? A main course sort of thing, not a dessert!

I must agree with the cook: Stone those raisins! Nothing is worse than chomping down on a raisin pit!

Debra said...

I certainly do agree- a main dish for certain!
And for the raisin pit- ouch!
You can always make me smile!

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