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Holiday Nights in Greenfield Village Dinner Package at Eagle Tavern

December 5-7, 12-14, 18-23 and 26-27, 2014
Treat your family to a delectable holiday feast.

Holiday Nights Supper with Santa Package

December 5-7, 12-14 and 18-23, 2014
Enjoy a casual buffet-style holiday turkey dinner perfect for kids!
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The Henry Ford has a "tasty" collection of food-related artifacts that let us peer into kitchens from America's past. It is one of the best collections of its kind in the country.

1700-1850
Small Game Roaster
Probably United States
92.0.129.133
Wild game was an important food source for colonial Americans. People ate deer, bear, wild turkey, rabbits and small birds.

This wrought iron roaster, a more specialized piece of fireplace cooking equipment, was used to roast small game like rabbits, fish or birds in front of the fire. Women attached the meat to the rectangular frame by the spikes around its perimeter. A drip pan placed below caught the juices.