MA's Top Dessert And Most Googled Recipe May Surprise You

Thanksgiving is this Thursday, Nov. 22, and you know what that means: copious amounts of savory turkey, creamy mashed potatoes and fluffy bread rolls. And in Massachusetts, at least, a whole lot of ... homemade cranberry sauce?

The most commonly Googled Thanksgiving recipe in the Bay State wasn't turkey or mashed potatoes, it was the homemade purple sauce that can sometimes be quite different from the canned stuff. The only other state in America with the same obsession was Oregon.

That’s according to a new report from SatelliteInternet.com, which analyzed the top-searched recipes on Google Trends from November 2017. Turkey and turkey-related recipes were searched for in 13 states, tied for most with green bean and corn casseroles. Thanksgiving dessert recipes, such as pumpkin pie, pecan pie and Jell-O, were searched for the most in 12 states.

After you gobble the cranberry sauce (or pass on it,) consider busting out what the Daily Meal recently called Massachusetts's most iconic dessert: Boston cream pie.

It's not even a stretch: About 22 years ago, the state legislature named Boston cream pie our "Dessert Emblem."

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The annual holiday has clearly come a long way since the nation’s first Thanksgiving feast in 1621, when the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony held a three-day festival and ate seafood with the Wampanoag Indians to celebrate a bountiful harvest. Thanksgiving is now celebrated each year on the fourth Thursday of November, and the average meal for 10 people costs about $49.

About 54 million Americans travel at least 50 miles from home over the holiday, and about 46 million turkeys will be eaten — more than twice that of Christmas and Easter.

Patch national staffer Dan Hampton contributed to this report.

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