Food in Doctor Dolittle | Hugh Lofting (Food Reference List)
cracker
porridge
cake
omelettes
vegetables
pilot bread/ hard tack
beef in cans
suet pudding
lemonade
herring
onions
salmon
cocoanut milk (coconut milk)
“They always had plenty to eat and drink’ because Chee-Chee and Polynesia knew all the different kinds of fruits and vegetables that grow in the jungle, and where to find them–like dates and figs and ground-nuts and ginger and yams. They used to make their lemonade out of the juice of wild oranges, sweetened with honey which they got from the bees’ nests in hollow trees.”
cocoanuts
bananas
pineapples
mangoes
honey
roast beef
brown gravy
dried apples
sugar-cane
pork chops
roast duck
rum
tea
strawberry jam
bread
parsnips
soup
candies
horseradish
toasted muffins