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Thanksgiving

The American harvest feast, with turkey stuffing seasoned with sage and thyme, pumpkin pie and cranberries.

"The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth" (1914) By Jennie A. Brownscombe
Photo: Jennie Augusta Brownscombe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Spices for Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is built on a mix of native American and European foods. Turkey is stuffed with bread seasoned with sage, thyme, black pepper and sometimes nutmeg; sweet potatoes are baked with cinnamon and brown sugar; pumpkin pie uses cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and clove, a blend sold as pumpkin pie spice. A modern autumn habit of adding the same blend to coffee has made the spice mix a symbol of the season.

The spices

Pumpkin pie spiceThe American autumn blend.NutmegGrated on pie and sweet potato.

Also part of it, and being written: Sage (The herb of the stuffing.).

About this page

Written by the EveryMasala desk with AI assistance. Background: "Thanksgiving (United States)" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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