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