indian corn

基本解释

Holiday meals. A time of turkeys, stuffing, and pumpkin pie. A time for Indian corn.
感恩節的食物非常有特色：塞滿餡的火雞、南瓜餅和玉米等等的美味。
Because it could be produced almost anywhere and because its yield even on poor land was satisfactory, Indian corn was the chief crop.
由於幾乎任何地方都能種植，而且甚至在貧瘠的土地上的産量也令人滿意，所以印第安玉米成了主要作物。
Since the pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians had no refrigeration in the seventeenth century, they tended to dry a lot of their foods to preserve them. They dried Indian corn, hams, fish, and herbs.
17世紀，清教徒和萬帕諾亞格印第安人還沒有掌握冷藏方法，他們縂是用風乾的方法來保存食物，有印第安玉米、火腿、魚肉還有香草。

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