Post by blackcrowheart on Jan 21, 2008 11:36:23 GMT -5
This dish we called mapi'-nakapa' , or
pounded-meal mush; from mapi', something pounded , and nakapa', mush, sometimes
mushy. The dish was especially a morning meal; after eating it we started to
work.Ma'nakapa. A second way of preparing hard white corn was as follows: I
pounded the corn in a mortar meal, but without first parching it. Most of this meal
was fine, but there were many coarser bits in it, some of them as big as
quarter grains of corn. Water was put in a kettle; I added the pounded meal, and
when it boiled put in beans. No fats were added. As the mess boiled I
stirred it with a wooden paddle to prevent scorching; I did not stir with a horn
spoon as the hot water softened and spoiled the horn. When boiled, the mess was
served. We called this dish ma'nakapa'. (BBW)
pounded-meal mush; from mapi', something pounded , and nakapa', mush, sometimes
mushy. The dish was especially a morning meal; after eating it we started to
work.Ma'nakapa. A second way of preparing hard white corn was as follows: I
pounded the corn in a mortar meal, but without first parching it. Most of this meal
was fine, but there were many coarser bits in it, some of them as big as
quarter grains of corn. Water was put in a kettle; I added the pounded meal, and
when it boiled put in beans. No fats were added. As the mess boiled I
stirred it with a wooden paddle to prevent scorching; I did not stir with a horn
spoon as the hot water softened and spoiled the horn. When boiled, the mess was
served. We called this dish ma'nakapa'. (BBW)