SC - grains of paradise article

[Catherine Hartley]

We also make bread of it...a sweet bread usually used as a "munchie" or toasted
for breakfast, etc.  It has many of the same seasonings as pumpkin pie along
with pecans, walnuts or some other nuts.

Kiri

Jim Revells wrote:

> In the South besides pies, I was rasied eating pumpkin pan fried to a mush
> either sweet with brown sugar & cinnamon or plain with salt, pepper &
> butter.  We also ate it baked in a cassarole with marshmillows & pecans on
> top.  I have also had it as a soup & served  boilled in chunks.  The Native
> Americans from my part of the country probably ate theirs boilled, baked or
> roasted since they did not have frying pans till after the other side of my
> family came over from Europe.  My Grandmothers were all traditional cooks
> who made food the way they were taught to as children.  Granny Edwards died
> in '73 & used to talk about playing in the abandoned Slave's quarters on
> her Grandfather's Plantation in TN, so she was learning to cook close to a
> century ago (I think she was born in 1886)   Chris a friend of mine who
> also does 17th Century reenactment at a living history musuem in Salem, MA
> says that the way she was taught was to clean it out then cook it in it's
> shell on a fire with cranberries, squash & wallnuts inside.
> Olaf
>
> ----------
> > From: Glenda Robinson <glendar at compassnet.com.au>
> > To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> > Subject: Re: SC - Re:the top 8 icks list
> > Date: Monday, May 01, 2000 6:48 PM
> >
> > For example, the food pumpkin... We in Australia use it as a vegetable,
> > baked in chunks (often with the skin on) with the 'taties, or made into a
> > soup. You in America use it sweetened as a dessert pie. Now... looking
> back
> > a few centuries... How WOULD those people have cooked their gourds
> (without
> > the referrals to their recipes - (I'm going the
> not-all-people-could-read,
> > just-did-what-they'd-been-taught way of thinking here)? If we put our
> modern
> > views from each country onto these people, they would be totally
> different.
> >
> > Glenda.
>
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