I am in the middle of Chapter One. Our school is on an A-day/B-day schedule, so by the time I finish today, I will have read chapter one about seven times! That's a lot of time to digest...
One interesting thing about chapter one is the food mentioned. For dinner, they had poke-greens with white bacon, sand buggers (made with potato and onion and "cooter" found crawling the night before), sour orange biscuits and sweet potato pone.
I have been looking for a recipe for sour orange biscuits - I really want to try that. I asked my husband (who this book SO reminds me of) if he knew what a "pone" is or what a "sand bugger" is. I mentioned the potato, onion and cooter in the sand bugger - he said, "that be some kind of turtle"... my goodness, how does he know this! I looked it up and he was right - "cooter" refers to turtle. I imagine a sand bugger is something like a potato cake or salmon pattie/crab pattie. Not sure about the pone yet, my students tell me it is something like a pie without a crust.
I am looking forward to digesting a little more today...
No comments:
Post a Comment