[Sca-cooks] Yankees, Hash, and Beets, was and still is: Winter comfort food...

[marilyn traber 011221]

>  From what I've seen, the basic "original" formula involves salt  
> pork, onions, seafood (various), crushed biscuit and water or other  
> liquid, generally layered in a large pot somewhat like an Irish 
> stew.  Additions are probably the result of whatever one is more 
> likely to  find in a given region's kitchen, and my suspicion is 
> that good  tomatoes (or even tomato products) were probably more 
> common in Rhode  Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts kitchens than 
> in Maine ones.
> 
> Adamantius

That's possible, Adamantius, but I quite honestly haven't had a decent tomato 
since I moved up here, other than those fed to me by neighbors at Pennsic, 
who grew them (organicly) in PA. Even the ones I tried to grow last summer 
never ripened.

Phlip