[Sca-cooks] Yankees, Hash, and Beets, was and still is: Winter comfort food...
marilyn traber 011221
phlip at 99main.com
Tue Dec 6 18:05:44 PST 2005
> 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
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