What did algonquins use to make food?

Answer 1

Fish was cooked over a fire or over hot stones, meat was cooked the same way.

The corn was ground up into flour, mixed with water and made into dough. This dough was most likely laid on hot flat stones to bake, which made a kind of flat bread.

Small animals were most likely cut up and mixed with other vegetables to make a stew

Answer 2

The Algonquin did some farming, but were mainly hunters; they hunted, trapped and fished. The Algonquian lived somewhat outside the wild rice region which provided an important part of the diet for other tribes in the northern Great Lakes.

Although a few southern bands were just beginning to grow corn, the Algonquian relied heavily on hunting for their food which made them excellent hunters and trappers. They used fish to fertilize their corn fields and tapped maple trees for sap to make their sugar.

The Algonquin Indians that lived on the coast. They often had clambakes; a sort of picnic where they ate clams, oysters, lobsters, mussels, and other shellfish. During these clambakes the Indians wrapped fish in seaweed then cooked it in a pit dug in the earth.

The Great Lakes Tribes were excellent hunters, farmers, and food gatherers. They ate wild birds, deer, moose, and rabbit and the men hunted moose, caribou, beaver, otter, and other small animals. The women gathered roots, seeds, wild rice, nuts, greens, and berries and grew corn, beans, and squash which were called "The Three Sisters" two other things they grew were potatoes, peppers. A main food was the wild rice the Indians gathered that grew in the marshlands around the Great Lakes. The Indians of the Great Lakes knocked off the grains with sticks so the rice fell into their canoes.

Answer 3

They prepared their food by boiling water over the fire.