When the first settlers arrived in Jamestown in April 1607 and raised a cross at Cape Henry, claiming the land for England, they may have had a thanksgiving predating their first known observance in 1619. In that year, Berkeley Hundred was settled, one of a number of plantations granted by the Virginia Co. of London to its stockholders.

The fairytale-like story of Pilgrims and Native Americans supposedly breaking bread together is a misleading version of real-life events.

According to the History Channel, the first Thanksgiving was celebrated by the Pilgrims in Plymouth, Massachusetts in November of 1621. While the traditional story says the Pilgrims shared a feast with the nearby Indigenous peoples of the Wampanoag tribe, first hand accounts and modern historians tell a different story.

When the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag shared the first Thanksgiving in 1621, sweet potatoes, apple pie, and turkey were missing from the table.

For being the most famous meal in American history, we actually don't know all that much about what was actually served. Today we will answer that burning question and make a dish that may very well have been served that day in 1621.

One event that has seen plenty of evolution and additions is the American Thanksgiving. Believe it or not, early settlers lacked the chef resources to create dishes like green bean casserole, cranberry sauce or marshmallow sweet potato bakes.