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Revolutionary War Recipes You Can Cook at Home: Part #4 of our American Revolution Food Series

We're cooking 8 shockingly simple colonial recipes today. From George Washington's hoecakes and Jefferson's famous mac and cheese to the cherry bounce that took us three months to make. It really is easy to do 1776-style.

You probably assume Revolutionary War recipes are fussy, obscure, and impossible to make today. In this America 250 grand finale of Family Tree Food & Stories, Nancy May and Sylvia France prove that colonial cooking slides straight into a modern kitchen, no hearth, no weird 1776 ingredients, no fear required.

If you have cornmeal, peanut butter, chicken, elbow noodles, navy…

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