Recent Foodsville Recipes by MZanger

Shepherd's Pie

Mzanger@comcast.net — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:02:00

People don't think of Anglo-Americans as ethnic, but they too dress up in costumes and celebrate national holidays. They dress up in colonial American costumes, decorate colonial houses, and eat Roast Beef, Yorkshire Pudding, shepherd's pie, plum pudding and hot cross buns. They are some of the most ethnic-conscious Americans of all! This recipe is from Kate Burton, the actress daughter of the late British actor, Richard Burton, in MORE Recipes and Reminiscence (2006) by Roy Harris, a collection of recipes from theater people. The American side of the hyphenation is the subsitution of beef and the addition of ketchup.

Easter Baba (Baba wielkanoca -- Polish)

Mzanger@comcast.net — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:43:19

Since we are coming up to Easter weekend, here is a special Polish Baba from the amazingly multicultural East Chicago Centennial International Cookbook, published in 1993 in East Chicago, Indiana. This recipe was contributed by Michalene Reba.

There are a lot of steps, but this kind of brioche dough is fairly foolproof, and the icing, similar to what we use on lebkuchen, is also easy. Ms. Reba tells us this cake freezes well, but one should freeze before icing.

Otoe Mush (Way-Tuh)

Mzanger@comcast.net — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:29:20

Recipe attributed to "Chief White Cloud Pow Wow Grounds" in Ke-Gan-O Zin-E-Gan (Cookbook), put out by the Indian Center of Topeka, Inc. It has no date, but some of the board members listed for the center have died, one possibly in 1975.

Most of the people I can find out about in Internet obituaries were Prairie Potawatomi (the largest tribe in Kansas) or from Southwest tribes. So this is the first recipe, and I don't know if it comes from the small Otoe tribe, or was attributed to them by the Potatwatomi (as "Crow gut" is a dish in Blackfoot and Lakhota cuisines), or if it is just named in their honor.