Original Indian Foods and Food Preparation

Author(s): Edward J. Wahla

Year: 2014

Summary

A number of attempts have been made from time to time to publish so-called Indian recipes. This is not one of them. The writer has never seen a true "recipe" for any ancient Indian dishes, but only descriptions of white foods adapted to Indian tastes, or visa-versa. Basically a recipe should involve careful measurements, leavening, addition of condiments, etc., all strictly according to rule. It is virtually impossible to find any such rules in ancient Indian cookery. Such methods of food preparation as leaching acorns, hulling and grinding corn or smoke drying meats were indeed processes which had to be learned by the growing girl, but they can scarcely be classified as recipes. A little study soon makes it clear that Indian cooking was done entirely "by ear".

Cite this Record

Original Indian Foods and Food Preparation. Edward J. Wahla. 2014 ( tDAR id: 393047) ; doi:10.6067/XCV86974J6

Keywords

Culture
Assiniboin • Historic Native American • Huron • Lower Michigan Indians • OJIBWA • Utes

Investigation Types
Ethnohistoric Research

General
Cooking Practices • Cooking Utensils • Diet • Fauna • Fishing • Food Preparation • Food Resources • Hunting and Gathering

Geographic Keywords
Great Lakes • Lower Michigan • Michigan (State / Territory) • North America (Continent) • United States of America (Country)

Temporal Keywords
Historic • Prehistoric

Spatial Coverage

min long: -125.068; min lat: 24.287 ; max long: -65.83; max lat: 49.268 ;

Notes

Administration Note: This resource is a pre-print which has no known publication date or publisher.

Administration Note: A digital copy of this document has been made available in tDAR thanks to the assistance of Edward J Wahla's daughter, Marianne Holt, and his grandson, Jerome Wahla.

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This resource is a pre-print which has no known publication date or publisher. A digital copy of this document has been made available in tDAR thanks to the assistance of Edward J Wahla's daughter, Marianne Holt, and his grandson, Jerome Wahla.