Indian Meal and Molasses: The Making of New England Cuisine
Indian Meal and Molasses: The Making of New England Cuisine
NEW DATE If you’ve read enough historical fiction (Laura Ingalls Wilder, I’m looking at you), you’ll know how crucial cornmeal and molasses were to early American settlers. But how did New England colonists come to adopt “Indian meal?” And what is molasses – a byproduct of the Caribbean slavery-fueled sugar plantations – doing on New […]