The Food of a Younger Land (50 page)

Arizona: Feast of the Christening; Menudo Party; Piki Bread of the Hopis; Some Things the Spanish-Americans Eat ; Superstitions About Foods ; Typical Cow-Boy Breakfast in

Arkansas: cherry bounce
(R)
; Possum Club of Polk County; Recipes from
(R)

ash cakes, about

ash cakes
(R)

Automat

Baedeker guidebooks

bag pudding
(R)

baked beans: Maine Baked Beans
(R)
; in Michigan lumber camps; Nebraska Baked Beans
(R)
; in New England; from Vermont
(R)

Baker, William

barbecue: Arizona San Simon fall barbecue; Kansas Beef Tour; Nebraska Buffalo Barbecue
(R)
; Oregon Salmon Barbecue
(R)
; South Carolina Backwoods Barbecue ; John Walton inauguration barbecue

barbecue sauces
(R)

Basques of the Boise Valley

Bathia, Jack

beans, in Mexican-style meals .
See also
baked beans

beaten biscuit
(R)

beaver tail, in Chippewa diet

Beaver Tail, Montana Fried

beef: boiled dinner
(R)
; Kansas Beef Tour; for Kansas city dwellers; Norwegian meat balls
(R)
; Oklahoma Prairie Oysters ; Porterhouse steak; regional preferences; spiced
(R)

biscuit, beaten
(R)

bison

Booya Picnic, Minnesota
(R)

breakfast: in Michigan; mush & milk
(R)
; Rhode Island May Breakfasts ; sour-dough pancakes ; sour milk doughnuts
(R)
; Typical Cow-Boy Breakfast in Arizona; in Virginia

Brown Hotel’s Christmas Dinner, Louisville, Kentucky

Brunswick Stew, Sergeant Saunders’ Virginia
(R)

Brunswick stew
(R)

buffalo, in Indian diet

Buffalo Barbecue, Nebraska
(R)

Burgoo, Kentucky
(R)

cake: Arkansas Christmas Fruit Cake
(R)
; Depression Cake
(R)
; fruit cake
(R)
; at Iowa picnics in Los Angeles; pound cake
(R)
; Sally White cake
(R)
; strawberry shortcake
(R)

California: Food à la Concentrate in Los Angeles; Grunion Fry ; Iowa Picnic in Los Angeles ; Los Angeles Sandwich Called a Taco

candy: Alabama Cane Grindings and Candy Pullings; Divinity Chocolates of Kentucky
(R)
; sugar-on-snow; Washington Aplets and Cotlets

Cape Fear johnny-cake
(R)

Castillo, J. Del

catfish: catfish
(R)
; Fish Fry on the Levee, Mississippi; South Carolina Pee Dee Fish Stew
(R)

Chandler, Genevieve Wilcox

cheese Creole
(R)

cherry bounce
(R)

chess pie

chicken: barbecued
(R)
; fried
(R)
; Italian styles; South Carolina Chicken Bog; Virginia Chicken

Chitlins, Mississippi

Chitterling Strut, North Carolina

Chocolates, Divinity, of Kentucky
(R)

Choctaw Indian Dishes
(R)

Choctaws, Funeral Cry Feast of the

chowder: clam, in New England ; Long Island Clam
(R)
; Maine Chowders
(R)
; Rhode Island Clam
(R)
; rivalries

Christensen, Hans

Christmas celebrations: Alabama Eggnog
(R)
; Arizona Menudo Party ; Arkansas Christmas Fruit Cake
(R)
; Basque holiday season; Brown Hotel’s Christmas Dinner; Kentucky Eggnog
(R)
; Wisconsin and Minnesota Lutefisk

Chuck Wagon, Texas

Churchill, Claire Warner

cider plum pudding
(R)

clams: Editorial Memorandum on; Long Island Clam Chowder
(R)
; Maine Clambake; New York Indoor Clam-Bake; Rhode Island Clam Chowder
(R)
; Washington’s Geoduck

Coca-Cola Parties in Georgia

codfish, for Wisconsin and Minnesota Lutefisk
(R)

codfish cakes
(R)

Colby, Merle

Colorado Superstitions

Conch Eats Conch and Grunts, Florida

Cook, J. B.

corn-dodgers

corn on the cob

Cotlets and Aplets, Washington

Couric, Gertha

Cow-Boy Breakfast in Arizona, Typical

Crabs, Josephine’s Mississippi

Crabs, Maryland
(R)

crème vichyssoise
(R)

currant relish, spiced
(R)

Davis, James Francis

Delaware’s Big Quarterly

Delmonico’s

Densmore, Frances

Depression Cake
(R)

Diard, François Ledgere

Diddy-Wah-Diddy

Divinity Chocolates of Kentucky
(R)

dog meat

Dolan, Don

donation parties

doughnuts, sour milk
(R)

drinks: Alabama Eggnog
(R)
; cherry bounce
(R)
; hard cider ; Kenneth Roberts’ Maine-Style Hot Buttered Rum
(R)
; Kentucky Eggnog
(R)
; Mint Julep Controversy; mint julep
(R)
; Mississippi Pear Wine
(R)
; Old Fashioned Cocktail
(R)
; Oregon Blue Ruin; “Original Kentucky” Mint Julep
(R)
; persimmon beer
(R)
; “stew”
(R)
; syllabub

Drugstore Lunch

DuBose, Louise Jones

Duck, Oregon Wild

Duck, Utah Salmi of Wild
(R)

Dulce, Montana

Duncan, Lillie

Eggnog, Alabama
(R)

Eggnog, Kentucky
(R)

eggs, stuffed
(R)

Eggs and Wild Onions, Oklahoma Scrambled

Exotic Florida

fattigmand
(R)

feasts and festivals.
See
social events and communal meals

Federal Writers’ Project .
See also America Eats

Felsheim, Jerry

Filé in Mississippi, Use and Manufacture of

fish: Baked Fish of Alabama’s Coast
(R)
; California Grunion Fry ; catfish
(R)
; codfish cakes
(R)
; Conch Eats Conch and Grunts, Florida; court bouillon
(R)
; Fish Fry on the Levee, Mississippi; herring and herring cakes; Mississippi Mullet Salad
(R)
; Oregon Salmon Barbecue
(R)
; Puget Sound Indian Salmon Feasts; salmon of Pacific Northwest; salt salmon
(R)
; South Carolina Pee Dee Fish Stew
(R)
; Washington Community Smelt Fry; Wisconsin and Minnesota Lutefisk
(R)
.
See also
shellfish

flatbrød
(R)

Florida: Conch Eats Conch and Grunts ; Exotic Florida; Hush Puppies; Shrimp Pilau Supper (St. Augustine)
(R)

Food à la Concentrate in Los Angeles

Footwashing at Lonely Dale, Alabama

foot washings

Foraging in Montana

Freeman, Harry M.

fruit cakes
(R)

Funeral Cry Feast of the Choctaws

game: beaver tail, in Chippewa diet; Brunswick stew
(R)
; Georgia Possum and Taters
(R)
; Long Island Rabbit Stew: Hasenpfeffer
(R)
; Montana Fried Beaver Tail ; Nebraska Cooks Its Rabbits ; Nebraska Eats Pheasants ; North Whitefield, Maine, Game Supper; Oregon Wild Duck; Possum Club of Polk County, Arkansas; roast possum; squirrel, in Southern cooking; squirrel mulligan
(R)
; Utah Salmi of Wild Duck
(R)

Geoduck Clams, Washington’s

Georgia: Coca-Cola Parties in; Oyster Roast
(R)
; Possum and Taters
(R)

greens: Foraging in Montana; greens
(R)
; Kentucky Wilted Lettuce
(R)
; poke
(R)
;
quelites
(sheep-sorrel; pig-weed) ; turnip greens and collards

Grunion Fry, California

Grunts, Conch Eats Conch and, Florida

gumbos
(R)

Hackett, Walter Anthony

Hall, Mabel G.

ham, Virginia

Ham Bone Soup, Kentucky (A Plantation Recipe)
(R)

Hasenpfeffer: Long Island Rabbit Stew
(R)

herring and herring cakes

hoecake (hoe-cake; hoe cake): Grandma Smith’s Mississippi
(R)
; hoe cake
(R)
; origin of

hominy: big; lye
(R)
; in menudo ; in
posole

[Hopi] Feast of the Christening

Hopis, Piki Bread of the

horseradish relish
(R)

Hot Buttered Rum, Kenneth Roberts’ Maine-Style
(R)

hotel dinners: Brown Hotel’s Christmas Dinner; Dishes New York City’s Hotels Gave America

hot pot
(R)

hot tamale pie
(R)

Hudson, Peter J.

Hurston, Zora Neale

hush puppies, about

Hush Puppies, Florida
(R)

Idaho, Basques of the Boise Valley

Illinois homesteader foods

Indiana Persimmon Pudding
(R)

Indiana Pork Cake
(R)

Indian pudding, baked
(R)

Indians: Choctaw Indian Dishes; Feast of the Christening; Funeral Cry Feast of the Choctaws ; Midwestern food traditions ; Navajo Superstitions About Foods; Piki Bread of the Hopis; Puget Sound Indian Salmon Feasts; Sioux and Chippewa Food

India pickle
(R)

Iowa Picnic in Los Angeles

Italian Feed in Vermont

jellied apples
(R)

johnny-cake, Cape Fear
(R)

Jonny Cakes, Rhode Island

Kansas: Beef Tour
(R)
; Indians in; Kansas City steak; Urban Kansas Eats and Drinks

kartoffel klösze
(R)

Kellock, Katherine

Kennedy, Carroll

Kennedy, Michael

Kennedy, Stetson

Kenneth Roberts’ Maine-Style Hot Buttered Rum
(R)

Kentucky: Brown Hotel’s Christmas Dinner, Louisville; Burgoo
(R)
; Divinity Chocolates of
(R)
; Eggnog
(R)
; Ham Bone Soup (A Plantation Recipe)
(R)
; Mint Julep Controversy; “Original Kentucky” Mint Julep
(R)
; Oysters; Spoon Bread
(R)
; Wilted Lettuce
(R)

Kerns, Clarence

Kratzer, J. Willis

Kytle, Jack

lamb: in Californian diet; hot pot
(R)
; in Idaho Basque diet; Nebraska Lamb and Pig Fries

lefsa
(R)

lemon pickle
(R)

Lettuce, Kentucky Wilted
(R)

Literary Tea, New York

Lobster Newburg

Louisiana “Tête de Veau”

Lunch, Drugstore

Luncheonette Slang and Jargon, New York

Lutefisk, Wisconsin and Minnesota
(R)

lye hominy
(R)

MacDougall, Allan Ross

Maine: Baked Beans
(R)
; Chowders
(R)
; Clambake; Kenneth Roberts’ Maine-Style Hot Buttered Rum
(R)
; North Whitefield, Maine, Game Supper

Manchester, Henry

maple sugaring: in Vermont; Vermont Sugaring-Off

Maryland Crabs

May Breakfasts, Rhode Island

McCormick, Donald

McLaughlin, Joseph

Meal, William H.

Menudo Party, Arizona

Menudo Party, Tucson’s

La Merienda
in New Mexico

Metevier, M.

Michigan food traditions

Michinard, H.

Minnesota: Booya Picnic
(R)
; lutefisk; Norwegian Recipes
(R)
; Sioux and Chippewa Food

mint julep: Controversy; mint julep
(R)
; Mississippi; “Original Kentucky”
(R)

Mississippi: African-American Recipes
(R)
; Barbecue Sauce
(R)
; Chitlins; Fish Fry on the Levee; Grandma Smith’s Mississippi Hoecake
(R)
; Josephine’s Mississippi Crabs; Mint Juleps; Mississippi Food
(R)
; Molasses Pie
(R)
; Mullet Salad
(R)
; Pear Wine
(R)
; Use and Manufacture of Filé in

mock baked potatoes
(R)

Molasses Pie, Mississippi
(R)

Montana: Dulce; Foraging in; Fried Beaver Tail

Moore, Cora A.

Moss, H. J.

Moste, John

Mullet Salad, Mississippi
(R)

mush & milk
(R)

Mushrooms in Pennsylvania, Raising

Native Americans.
See
Indians

Navajo Superstitions About Foods

Nebraska: Baked Beans
(R)
; Buffalo Barbecue
(R)
; Cooking for the Threshers in; Lamb and Pig Fries; Nebraska Cooks Its Rabbits; Nebraska Eats Pheasants; Nebraskans Eat the Weiners; Pop Corn Days

Nelson, M. C.

New Deal

New Mexico,
La Merienda
in

New York: Automat; Dishes New York City’s Hotels Gave America ; Drugstore Lunch; Indoor Clam-Bake; Literary Tea; Long Island Clam Chowder
(R)
; Long Island Rabbit Stew: Hasenpfeffer
(R)
; Oyster Stew Supreme at Grand Central
(R)
; shellfish of Long Island; Soda-Luncheonette Slang and Jargon

Nixon, Hazel M.

North Carolina: Chitterling Strut; Oyster Roasts; Recipes from Prominent North Carolinians
(R)

Norwegian Recipes from Minnesota
(R)

O’Brien, Edward

Okison, John M.

Oklahoma: Choctaw Indian Dishes ; Funeral Cry Feast of the Choctaws; Kush
(R)
; Notes on Oklahoma Pioneer Eating ; Oklahoma City’s Famous Suzi-Q Potatoes; Prairie Oysters; Scrambled Eggs and Wild Onions; When John Walton Became Governor of