COOKBOOK TRIVIA FROM COLONI...

How about a few bits of information that you might like to play trivia with? They are all words found in a Colonial Cookbook.

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CREOLE means to cook with tomatoes....

ALLIGATOR PEAR means alvacado.....

Boil Sugar to the BLOW means to cook up to 240*

A LA KING means to prepare with a rich cream sauce

CLABBERED means separated into curds and whey

COCHINEAL is a small insect used to make a red food coloring. UGH!

CONFITURES were preserves

BUTTERINE was oleomargerine

AU BEURRE meant to cook in or with butter

SUCCOTASH is a corn and lima bean dish

SQUAB a grown pigeon

SCHMIERKASE is homemade cottage cheese

RAMEKIN is a small individual baking dish

QUIDDANY a syrup or jelly made from quince

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Typical Thanksgiving Dinner in the 1700"s

found in back of Pioneer Tablet book

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12 Wild Turkeys (Caught and hung no more than 4 days ago)

These should be prepared by boiling if possible as they are pretty tough if you cook them over a spit cause they don't have a lot of meat.

2 Full grown deer (gutted and hung)

Prepare and place over spit a couple of days before Thanksgiving. You will need lots of small limbs to keep the embers hot all the time. Make sure when the men folk help in the evening they are reliable and don't drink too much or the meat will be ruined.

Enough prarie root for entire party - This was a form of potato

Squash and Pumpkin

Apples and dried berries

Rock Pock Tea (made from roots found under rocks)

Men Folks Libations

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__________EAT HARDY!!_________