USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Dessert. Prune tart seasoned with rosemary, rosewater, and cinnamon and sweetened with sugar. Pumpkin pie wasn’t served in a pastry shell. Instead, pumpkins were diced and stewed, then seasoned with ginger, cinnamon, butter, and vinegar to make it tart.

Detailed explanation-2: -According to some accounts, early English settlers in North America improvised by hollowing out pumpkins, filling the shells with milk, honey and spices to make a custard, then roasting the gourds whole in hot ashes.

Detailed explanation-3: -There was no pumpkin pie-they didn’t have a baking oven in Plimoth Plantation-but there might have been pumpkin served other ways, since both the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag ate pumpkin and other indigenous squashes.

Detailed explanation-4: -With Squanto acting as interpreter, Chief Massasoit and the pilgrims were able to negotiate an alliance, promising to help each other if they were attacked by enemy tribes. Massasoit released Squanto who moved to the Plymouth Colony to strengthen the alliance.