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lean Buffalo meat sliced into thin strips
• available spices
• salt to taste
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| When Buffalo
meat was plentiful the Corp ate up to 9 lbs. of meat each. Slice lean
Buffalo meat into thin strips. Rub available spices and salt into
meat. Thread the meat strips on sticks and dry over campfire. If the
meat was not dry by morning - the Corp tied the strips to the keelboat
mast to dry in the sun as they traveled. Millions of Buffalo grazed
the plains in the early 1800s. Today less than 1000 wild Buffalo exist
in the USA |
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2 Cups of water
• 2 T. (handfuls) of sugar or honey
• 1/4 C. flour (ground from squash, corn or grasses)
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3 Cups fresh or dried berries
• pinch of salt (when available)
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| Mandan and Hidatsa
women were expert farmers. They grew corn, squash and beans. They
gathered
June berries and sand cherries for sauces. Combine water, flour,
honey, and salt heat and stir to mix well. Stir in berries and
cook slowly
until thickened. Serve over breads or cooked meats. |
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Fresh Corn (enough to fill a qt.)
• 2 T. Saluratus - wood ash (today's baking soda)
• 2 qts. cold water
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| American Indians
used wood ashes to make hominy. Remove husks, wash and shell enough
corn to make about a qt. Add cold water and Saluratus, soak for 12
hours or so. Bring the corn and liquid to a boil in the soaking kettle.
Boil for about 3 hours till hulls loosen (Add more water to complete
the simmer if needed.) Drain off the liquid and wash in cold water,
rubbing vigorously to remove the hulls. Boil again to serve with gravy,
fry with lard, bacon grease, or fried meat drippings. Allowed to dry,
hominy will keep for 4 or 5 years with no special preparation or storing. |
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1 Cube Portable Soup (Chicken or Beef bullion)
• 1 Cup or handful of dried or fresh fish
• 1 Cup water
• Watercress or available spices
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| Add all of the
ingredients together, bring to a boil, and eat. When the Corp started
eating fish after the Lolo trail experience with the Nez Perce, the
change in diet took its toll for a few days. Lewis and Clark anticipated
this and carried certain medicines and herbs to help. Peruvian bark,
Assafoetic, Colombo, Magnesia, wintergreen/peppermint, Copaiboe, and
flower of sulfur. |
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