Pioneer Cooking

Grades 1-3

Subject Areas: Home Ec., Social Studies, Science

Objective: Students will experience cooking and eating common fare of pioneers.

Materials: Depends on recipes chosen.

Activity: The students will experience what foods were available to the pioneers.

1. Through discussion the students will learn that food was restricted largely to what the country provided: buffalo, other wild meat, roots and berries. Pioneers who had stoves were lucky; most had fireplaces and all burned wood.

2. Invite students to tell what they think pioneers ate. Write list on blackboard. Vote on which food to make. Ideas: Funnel cakes, Applesauce, Taffy pull, Johnny cakes, Biscuits, Dumplings, Milk Carton ice cream, Butter making, Gingerbread, Fruit Leather, Jerky, Hard tack, Ranch stew, Cowboy beans.

Extensions:

1. Create a cookbook of tried recipes with historical and nutritional information.

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