A SUPER Feast for a New England Patriot (1775)...
Breakfast/Brunch
Get up early, there are chores to be done. Great way to keep the mind off the big event coming later in the day. If you're a farmer or living in the outposts, porridge and cider or beer were slowly cooking over the embers of the hearth fire. Grab some and go. Delish! If you're a city dweller, grab a mug of something alcoholic, throw down some cornmeal mush and molasses, and wash it down with more cider or beer. Just the thing to get you started on this special day.
Lunch
OK, so you don't really have any. We're talking Dinner at around 3-4 pm. Just before the coverage of night begins. You'll want to start your preparations early. Start by making a trencher. Take a stale loaf of bread and make it into a plate. In the future, hopefully someone will put one on the other side and call it a "bun" or make it thinner and crisper and call it a "taco shell." Make a stew. Make it from pork (Porkers of Foodsville take note) add vegetable and roots that are available: corn and cabbage; potatoes and celery; whatever you've got left in storage in this deepest part of the winter. Put the stew on the trencher and serve. Your guests may not be inclined to eat the trencher, although mine would. Your guests might rather put it out for the animals. If you're rich and want to really impress your guests, serve a soup and make a shepherd's pie or a meat pudding, add some fritter and sauces and pickles. Serve a sallat (salad). It looks decorative in the middle of your serving table. For dessert: cakes, tarts, fruits, and custards. Then sit around and consume plenty of beer and cider. Toast your favorite New England patriots. Let the games begin.
Supper
Your patriot friends might be excited to party all night long, especially if there is good news. Sing Yankee Doodle. Eat the leftovers. Make some gruel by mixing oats and corn meal in boiling water. Drink more beer or cider.
Now you are truly a New England Patriot. Go Pats!
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