Our afternoon presentation yesterday at
Hartwell Tavern about got me to thinking about ways I could use the Colonial recipes as a class resource for a lesson for my students. Though it might be fun to do a compare contrast with the food items they used back then and those we use now. Could use a
colonial cookbook to find references to meats vegetables and spices. Have a little show and tell with the different spices, their smells and textures and use this activity for my English class with a little story I found called
Sam the Minuteman by Nathaniel Benchley as well as tie it into my classes Social Group in which one of the topics we cover is healthy eating and nutrition.
That sounds like a great idea...bringing the primary sources to life. I was intrigued to hear about the vegetable-based cookbooks. I didn't expect people to be health-conscious in that way back then (just one of those unexamined assumptions). Adds to how we learned last week that a lot of the abolitionists were vegetarian. I wonder if the students would also be surprised and what they would think.
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