Iroquois Foods and Food Preparation
Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
Published: August 2003
Place of publication: Honolulu, Hawaii
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781410207760
Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Sociology, Social Studies; Sociology; Social Science; North America; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Tribes; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies
Description: Reprint. Originally published 1916.
Table of contents: title: The Iroquois as horticulturists -- Corn culture in eastern North America -- Communal customs -- Making the clearing -- Division of labour -- Co-operative customs -- “All the females” -- Implements employed -- Early descriptions of corn culture -- Corn “medicines” -- Planting of the corn -- Thanksgiving after planting -- Cultivation ceremonials -- Rain-making -- Other planting time customs and beliefs -- Weather-lore -- Iroquois calendars -- Protection of crops -- End of season ceremony -- Harvesting and storage -- Abnormal ears -- Eating customs -- Household conveniences -- General characteristics -- Methods of fire-making -- The gathering of wood -- Utensils used in the gathering, preparation, and eating of food. Cookery methods and utensils -- Mortars and pestles -- The pack basket -- Hulling or washing basket -- The sifting basket -- Bread bowls (bark and wood) -- Dishes used in eating -- Spoons or ladles -- Forks or eating-sticks -- The paddle -- The knife -- Food materials and recipes. Corn as a food plant -- Iroquois corn varieties -- Eating customs -- Household conveniences -- General characteristics -- Methods of fire-making -- The gathering of wood -- Cookery methods and utensils -- Mortars and pestles -- The pack basket -- Hulling or washing basket -- The sifting basket -- Bread bowls (bark and wood) -- Dishes used in eating -- Spoons or ladles -- Forks or eating-sticks -- The paddle -- The knife -- Corn as a food plant -- Iroquois corn varieties. Onondaga names for corn varieties, by Chief Gibson -- Seneca names for corn varieties, by Alex. Snider, Tonawanda, N.Y. -- Caughnawaga (Mohawk) names for corn varieties, by Mr. Stacey -- Cayuga names for corn varieties, by Wm. Harris -- Other terms used in corn culture -- Other seeds and grains -- Corn recipes. Boiled corn bread -- Baked corn bread -- Other terms used -- Soup from corn bread liquor -- Early bread -- Dumplings -- Wedding bread -- Corn and pumpkin bread -- Corn and pumpkin pudding -- Parched corn travelling food -- Hulled corn soup -- Corn soup with nut meats -- Corn soup with sunflower seeds -- Hominy -- Coarse hominy  -- Dried pumpkin hominy -- Early hominy -- Early corn pudding -- Popcorn mush or pudding -- Popcorn soup or hominy -- Green corn on the cob -- Succotash -- Parched green corn soup -- Green corn soup -- Green corn baked -- Dried corn soup -- Roasted corn in the ear -- Green corn leaf bread -- Obsolete corn foods -- Ceremonial corn foods. Bear’s pudding -- Buffalo dance pudding -- Ball players’ pudding -- False-face pudding -- Beans and bean foods. Green beans in the pod -- Green beans shelled -- Fried beans -- Beans with corn -- Soup of dried beans -- Bans and squash -- Green beans with meat -- Sweet soup -- Mashed beans -- Beans mixed with bread -- Bean soup -- Cucurbitacæ or vine foods. Boiled squash -- Squash baked in ashes -- Mashed squash -- Squash used in bread-making -- Dried squash -- Pumpkin sauce -- Pumpkin with beans -- Preserved cucumbers -- Fried squash -- Dried pumpkin sauce -- Baked pumpkin -- Cornmeal and pumpkin -- Historical foods -- Leaf, stem, and bark foods -- Root foods -- General botanical terms -- Edible fungi. Fried mushroom -- Mushroom soup -- Nuts as food. Nuts used in bread-making -- Nut-meat gravy -- Nut-meat with potatoes -- Nut-meats in hominy and corn soup -- Fruits used as foods. Principal varieties -- General folk-lore items -- Animal foods. Kinds prohibited or avoided -- Other ceremonial usages -- Mammals -- Birds -- Batrachians and reptiles -- Fish. Boiled fish -- Fish soup -- Fish and potato soup -- Fried fish -- Roasted fish -- Dried fish -- Crustacea -- Insect foods. Historical mention -- Mollusca -- Saccharine foods. Maple syrup and sugar -- Honey -- Beverages -- Salt as a food material -- Bibliography.