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Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries: Quotations

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Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America

By Andrew F. Smith

Published 2004

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They had large kettles which they traded for with the French long since, and do still buy of the English as their need requires. Before they had substantial earthen pots of their own making.

—William Wood, New England Prospect (1634)

Thin cakes mixt with bear’s oil were formerly baked on thin broad stones placed over a fire, or on broad earthen [earthenware] bottoms fit for such a use, but now they use kettles.

—James Adair, The History of American Indians (1747)

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