Fruits and Nuts in the Early 1800s

Did you know …   Strawberries grew wild in the meadows. Children found raspberries and blackberries in such places as fence corners. Wild grapes and service berries grew in the woods and huckleberries grew on hillsides. How many of these fruits have you eaten? Small fruits that children then ate were gooseberries, currant, elderberries, wild cherries, haw, dewberries, mulberries, cranberries, wild red plums, and crabapples. How many of these have you eaten? They also ate peaches, apples, and pears. They dried the fruit to eat during the winter. Boys gathered chestnuts and black walnuts Boys gathered chestnuts, hickory nuts, black walnuts, butternuts, and hazelnuts for their families and animals. They probably enjoyed hiking through the woods to find...

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