From Cape Cod bog’s – Cranberry Walnut Bread

by Patricia Turo | October 16, 2009 at 06:18 pm

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I spent my summers on Cape Cod and picked cranberries from a bog just behind our house. I've always loved watching the colorful cranberry harvest. The cranberries float to the top of the bog as it is filled with water and creates a sea of red. Cranberries are a part of Cape Cod history as it was believed that they were served at the first Thanksgiving meal by the Indians. It is also believed after a few failed attempts by the Pilgrims to settle and survive in Massachusetts that it was the Indians who taught the Pilgrims to search out cranberries and how to hunt in this area that finally they were able to survive in their new environment.

From Cape Cod bog’s – Cranberry Walnut Bread By Patricia Turo
Cranberries are native to North America and it is known that Indians served cranberries at the first Thanksgiving dinner and used them with venison. They are an amazing fruit growing under sand and wetlands. European settlers actually give them their name even though the Indians were eating them long before they came to North America. Massachusetts and Wisconsin are the largest producers of Cranberries in the world.