This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI CAMP FOOD HOW TO MAKE ASH CAKE, PONE, CORN DODGERS, FLAPJACKS, JOHNNY-CAKE, BISCUITS AND DOUGH GOD MAKING DUTCH OVENS VENISON BANQUETS IN THE OPEN HOW TO COOK BEAVER TAIL, PORCUPINES AND MUSKRATS CAMP STEWS, BRUNSWICK STEWS AND BURGOOS CHAPTER VI CAMP FOOD Parched Corn As Food When America ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VI CAMP FOOD HOW TO MAKE ASH CAKE, PONE, CORN DODGERS, FLAPJACKS, JOHNNY-CAKE, BISCUITS AND DOUGH GOD MAKING DUTCH OVENS VENISON BANQUETS IN THE OPEN HOW TO COOK BEAVER TAIL, PORCUPINES AND MUSKRATS CAMP STEWS, BRUNSWICK STEWS AND BURGOOS CHAPTER VI CAMP FOOD Parched Corn As Food When America gave Indian corn to the world she gave it a priceless gift full of condensed pep. Corn in its various forms is awonderful food power; with a long, narrowbuckskin bag of nocake, or rock-a-hominy, as parched cracked corn was called, swung upon his back, an Indian or a white man could traverse the continent independent of game and never suffer hunger. George Washington, George Rodger Clark, Boone, Kenton, Crockett, and Carson all knew the sustaining value of parched corn. How To Dry Corn The pioneer farmers in America and many of their descendants up to the present time, dry their Indian corn by the methods the early Americans learned from the Indians. The corn drying season naturally begins with the harvesting of the corn, but it often continues until the first snow falls. Selecting a number of ears of corn, the husks are pulled back exposing the grain, and then the husks of the several ears are braided together (Fig. 165). These bunches of corn are hung over branches of trees or horizontal poles and left for the winds to dry (Fig. 166). On account of the danger from corn-eating birds and beasts, these drying poles are usually placed near the kitchen door of the farmhouse, and sometimes in the attic of the old farmhouse, the woodshed or the barn. Of course, the Indians owned no corn mills, but they used bowl-shaped stones to hold the corn and stone pestles like crudely made potato mashers with which to grind the corn. The writer lately saw...
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