A few hobbit meals are mentioned in the Hobbit and LotR.
At 'The Unexpected Party', Bilbo served seed cake, buttered scones, cold chicken, pickles, and ham and eggs for breakfast. Also tea, beer, ale, porter, coffee, and red wine.
At Maggot's Farm a dish of mushrooms and bacon was prepared by Mrs. Maggot. Apparently a hobbit delicacy.
In Ithilien Samwise made some rabbit stew, seasoned with bay-leaves, thyme, sage and salt. He would have liked to have added carrots, potatoes and turnips. Hobbits seemed to know a great deal about roots and herbs. Samwise also offered to make Gollum some Fish and Chips someday.
The Mayor of the Shire was nicknamed 'Flourdumpling'. From this one might assume that dumplings were part of a hobbits diet.
The Gaffer grew potatoes and cabbages. There was a mill for grinding flour for bread. Hobbits made cheeses, wines, beer and ale. I think I remember sausage being mentioned once. Some hobbits fished and hunted. They raised all the usual farm animals. There were apple orchards and probably other fruits but they aren't mentioned specifically. They probably tended beehives.
I suspect hobbits ate about the same thing as Mr. Tolkien when he was a youngster in England. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
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