DAY Recipe

This pie needs no introduction. It probably doesn’t even need a recipe—everyone has a favorite way to make it. Here is mine.

Makes one nine-inch pie.

INGREDIENTS
1 recipe thin butter crust

6 to 8 freshly picked firm and slightly tart apples, [...]

It is no coincidence that the method used to bake this bread, steaming, is similar to one used by the native Indians of New England, who taught us how to use corn as a grain for bread. The most famous of our region’s breads, this wholesome blend of wheat, rye, and corn flours is suitable [...]

No Thanksgiving dinner would be complete without cranberry relish. It can be made in large batches if you want to make enough for the winter.

Makes 3 cups.

INGREDIENTS
2 oranges

1 cup sugar

2 teaspoons lemon juice

2 teaspoons fresh ginger, cut in [...]

This recipe is intended as a baked dressing to accompany the Thanksgiving turkey. It can be used as stuffing (a practice I do not recommend for turkey), if you desire. It also makes a good stuffing for capon or pork.

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turkey may not have played as big a part in the first Thanksgiving, held back in 1621, as it does in our contemporary celebration. If turkey was served at all, it was probably one of many game birds, that were served along with venison, oysters, clams, lobsters, and eels, as well as succotash, beach plums, [...]