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Page 84 - Meneaters, they set no corne, but live on the bark of Chestnut and Walnut and other fine trees: They dry and eat this bark with the fat of beasts, and sometimes men . . .
Page 16 - Notwithstanding the Indian women have all the fuel and bread to procure, and the cooking to perform, their task is probably not harder than that of white women, who have those articles provided for them; and their cares certainly are not half as numerous, nor as great.
Page 48 - ... and which are made of a kind of hemp, the same as fig-frails — which they make to serve them as sieves — and thus make their meal. They make flat cakes of the meal mixed with water, as large as a farthing cake in this country, and bake them in the ashes, first wrapping a vine-leaf or maizeleaf around them. When they are sufficiently baked in the ashes they make good, palatable bread.
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Page 54 - The thin cakes mixt with bear's oil, were formerly baked on thin broad stones placed over a fire, or on broad earthen bottoms fit for such a use, but now they use kettles. When they intend to bake great loaves, they make a strong 1 " Some of the loaves were baked with nuts and dry blue berries and grains of the sunflower.
Page 53 - ... slice off the kernels from the cob to which they grow, and knead them into a paste. This they are enabled to do without the addition of any liquid, by the milk that flows from them; and when it is effected, they parcel it out into cakes, and, enclosing them in leaves of the basswoodtree, place them in hot embers, where they are soon baked. And better flavoured bread I never ate in any country.
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| Title | Iroquois Uses of Maize and Other Food Plants, Volume 121; Volume 125; Volume 144; Volume 163 Issue 482 of Bulletin (University of the State of New York) Issue 144 of Bulletin, NY New York State Museum Albany, ISSN 0097-0271 Issue 482 of Education Department bulletin, NY University of the State of New York Albany Iroquois Uses of Maize and Other Food Plants, Arthur Caswell Parker Issue 144 of Museum bulletin New York State Museum, Bulletin #144 Series Volume 144 of New York state museum, Museum bulletin |
| Author | Arthur Caswell Parker |
| Publisher | University of the state of New York, 1910 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Dec 20, 2007 |
| Length | 119 pages |
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