Indian Bread

[donna]

two eggs, one pint sour milk or buttermilk, and one pint of fine Indian meal, one teaspoonful of soda, one tablespoonful of butter, and add to the mixture.

From: "Old Time Recipes To Enjoy", "The Kentucky Explorer Magazine".

 

[Bee]

Beat two eggs, very light; mix alternately with them one pint sour milk or buttermilk, and one pint of fine Indian meal, one teaspoonful of soda, dissolved in a little sour milk; melt one tablespoonful of butter, and add to the mixture. Beat well and bake in a quick oven.

From: "Old Time Recipes To Enjoy", "The Kentucky Explorer Magazine".

I am still looking for when you fry it!!

@diane I'm confused: unless it goes in the frying pan, it ain't bread!!

EDIT: I want to add that I enjoy this forum very much @donna , as it allows me to share items with friends who would otherwise not be interested in anything Civil War related.

 

[donna]

This is one you bake. It is old Kentucky recipe.

 

[diane]

I am still looking for when you fry it!!

@diane I'm confused: unless it goes in the frying pan, it ain't bread!!

Sorry, Donna!

It was a strange experience looking up Indian meal - never quite sure what the meaning is but it isn't really cornmeal...got all sorts of cool recipes from India! Maybe I should send Google a note...

 

[donna]

diane and Bee Indian meal in this recipe is meal made from corn or maize. The pioneers learned about it from Native Americans.

Indian meal was used in bread including corn bread.

 

[Bee]

diane and Bee Indian meal in this recipe is meal made from corn or maize. The pioneers learned about it from Native Americans.

Indian meal was used in bread including corn bread.

This is really interesting to me that these ingredients made their way into traditional Kentucky recipes. Recipes, to me, are another way of tracing cultural exchange, as they contain history of peoples that may not be documented in classic history books.

 

[KansasFreestater]

This is really interesting to me that these ingredients made their way into traditional Kentucky recipes. Recipes, to me, are another way of tracing cultural exchange, as they contain history of peoples that may not be documented in classic history books.

Very true!

 

[donna]

Some Kentuckians are descendants of Cherokees.My husbands family the Skaggs has Cherokee blood. They helped settle Ky. Skagg brothers married Cherokees. It is quite complicated. I have done lots of research for my husband. His Grandmother always said they were part Cherokee. Unfortunately her proof was throw away. This before I knew my husband. It sure would be nice to have that paperwork.

 

[diane]

A lot of Indian cooking was incorporated into American foodways - pumpkin is good but add milk and sugar and you have pumpkin pie!

Maize is very different from commercial corn, by the way, less sweet and a different flavor. It makes up into a unique corn meal.

 

[diane]

I do like the blue cornmeal, which is made from a variety of maize! If you do the above recipe with it, you'll get a nice colorful bread similar to this:



Lots of things are done quite differently now, of course, and I'm all for maintaining the old time food using the new time methods. I'll happily use a food processor on my acorns! Buy my cornmeal from some good miller - Red Mill comes to mind - rather than shuck, dry, soak, pound kernels. It's ok not to be totally traditional. I'd much rather buy dinner from the butcher than have to chase it down and knock it in the head!