New England Cuisine
...ew England Cooking includes delicious dishes for religious feasts as well as recipes for regional holidays such as Patriot's Day Boston Marathon and Rhode Island's May breakfasts. Rich in historic detail and traditional recipes. In New England the fall season brings the most common products they use in traditional cooking, The farms decorates with bright colors, vivid pumpkins and many varieties of gourds, squashes and barrels of ruby red apples. The land is not their only source, as the Pilgrims wrote they have “the fruits of the sea” , the large variety of fish such as Cape Cod named after all the cod they found in the waters of the area, also they have haddock, striped bass, bluefish, flounder and shellfish. The origin of New England Cuisine was created by the Pilgrims that helped by Native Americans learned that sugar most often in the form of maple syrup provided protection and warmth for the body during the cold winters. Blueberries, cranberries and Concord grapes are the most common ingredients in all the wonderful treats they make. Pancakes made with fresh blueberries with pure fresh warm maple syrup is a classic dish that will be traditional and remembered. The berries are interchangeable in most of the recipes, cobblers and jams are often made in season. Boston Brown bread, made in coffee cans is served with Boston Baked Beans, which we had the opportunity to make in class and were flavorful, smooth and sweet. The history of this traditional dish is interesting and was all about the beliefs of early colonists that were not able to work on the Sabbath so they could prepare the ...