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They made bread, cookies, and many different pastries. No not really. You would be more likely to find a opossum in the stew pot than cookies in the oven in Colonial Virginia. Venison, rabbit, fish and turkey were the staples and subsistence farming was not yet established to the point of feeding a family. Malnutrition and starvation were common in early colonial history and supply ships and Native-American generosity were needed for survival.

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Wild game and fish (Venison, rabbit, squirrel, turkey, geese, ducks, bear) pork, beef, mutton and lamb, chicken, eggs, breads made from corn, wheat, barley, various beans, squash, and vegetables when in season- not too many ways to preserve food other than smoking, drying, salting or pickling. Greens when in season. Onions and pumpkins. Oysters. Cheese made from goat and cow's milk, and butter. Fruits, both wild (berries, wild grapes) and cultivated (apples, Pears, cherries, grapes. Also they ate Fire cakes which is a mixture of water and flour and it was not even cooked just stirred and a little bit hot and that was a Fire cake!

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They ate corn, deer meat, and fruits. Also seafood

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* Fish * Shellfish * Squash * Venison * Rabbits * Turkey

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* Fish * Shellfish * Venison * Squash * Turkey * Rabbits and in the starving times almost anything.

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Corn, peas, oatmeal, bread, deer but it usually was rare that theve got to eat at all because these supplys were very limited

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they would use a a would buring oven once the flames had cooled down you would put the bread for food in (woman did the cooking)

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They ate corn, and other vegatables.

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