British Style Food
Due to the US was the Britain's colony, so Britishs bring their food culture to the new world. There is a recipe which describes a US family's daily food:
Dried, salted codfish
Bacon
Cabbage and turnips
Brown biscuits with butter
Apples
White crackers
Indian pudding
Beer
(Reference: http://www.foodbycountry.com/Spain-to-Zimbabwe-Cumulative-Index/United-States-Northeast-Region.html)
As you can see from above food list, their daily foods are pretty European style, you can easily find lots of typical European foods, such as bacon, biscuits and beer. In fact, British style foods dominate the majority part of American food. I will introduce some dishes for British style in following.
Johnny Cake
According to this name, it is a kind of desert in the American's food culture, especially for travelling; it used to be called" Journey Cake", so Americans always prepare it before long distance travelling.
To prepare this cake, the ingredients are quite simple: seven tablespoons cornmeal, one tablespoon sugar, half teaspoon salt, and half cup of milk. The procedure is simplier than this: you only need to mix those ingredients and bake the ingredient in an oven for 30 minutes. When it is finished, it always eat with sweet strawberry sauce.

New England Clam Chowder
This is a famous and popular chowder in the New England, which is made by clams. This chowder is quite special because it is thicked with oyster crackers, not traditional flour. It also contains onions, potatoes, tomatoes and milk.
To cook this cuisine, you should buy some fresh daily clams, after clean them, mix them with onion, then cut up above mixture, poll those mixture to a griddle, after a slight heating, cut up remaining vegetables for chunks, then put all ingredients in a pot to boil for 20 minutes.

Honey-Baked Apple
It is a special apple which is baked with honey or other sweet ingredients. The ingredients and process are quite simple.
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