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Whistleberries Stirabout Depression Cake: Food Customs and Concoctions of the Frontier West
Whistleberries Stirabout Depression Cake Food Customs and Concoctions of the Frontier West
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"Wring that cow's tail and shove her this way!" Or you could just say, "Pass the grease!" After all, you might need some butter for your steaming stack of hots or string of flats. Filling your belly in the frontier West was more diverse and entertaining than you might ever imagine. Federal Writers' Project field workers, under the direction o...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781560447740
ISBN-10: 1560447745
Publication Date: 8/1/2000
Pages: 112
Edition: First
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Publisher: Three Forks
Book Type: Paperback
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Taken from accounts written in the 1940s, this is an engrossing book. Not only do you get a lot of folk history you get the enjoyment of recipes from that era. Here's a sampling of the recipes: India Pickle, Honey Gingerbread, Pasty, Soudough and the bread, biscuits, pancakes, etc. made from it, Cheese Sauce for Fish, Brown Cake, Son-of-a-gun stew.
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