Post by blackcrowheart on Jan 21, 2008 11:40:33 GMT -5
Cooking the Ripe Squashes
When now we wanted to have squash for a meal, I went over to this heap of
ripe seed squashes and brought a number over near the fire. There I broke them
open, carefully saving the seeds. i would lay a squash on the floor of the
lodge; with an elk horn scraper I would strike the squash smart blows on the
side, splitting it open. The broken half rinds I piled up one above another,
concave side down, until ready to put them in the pot. Ripe squashes were less
delicate than green four-days-old squashes, and did not spoil so quickly. I
was able to boil about ten ripe squashes in our family pot; but it took three
such cookings of ten squashes each to make a mess for out family, which I have
said was a large one. We boiled these ripe squashes like the four-days-old,
in a very little water. (BBW)
When now we wanted to have squash for a meal, I went over to this heap of
ripe seed squashes and brought a number over near the fire. There I broke them
open, carefully saving the seeds. i would lay a squash on the floor of the
lodge; with an elk horn scraper I would strike the squash smart blows on the
side, splitting it open. The broken half rinds I piled up one above another,
concave side down, until ready to put them in the pot. Ripe squashes were less
delicate than green four-days-old squashes, and did not spoil so quickly. I
was able to boil about ten ripe squashes in our family pot; but it took three
such cookings of ten squashes each to make a mess for out family, which I have
said was a large one. We boiled these ripe squashes like the four-days-old,
in a very little water. (BBW)