Pioneer Day is July 24th. Heres an excerpt from My 3rd great-grandma Jemima Elizabeth Child Stookeys autobiography. She talked about food a lot which is understandable when your survival dependson procuring it. Her little girl was very sick and had been unable to eat, but some snipe and blackbird stew helped revive her. So I guess the lesson from this is that snipe hunting is real :-) Her Pa [Jemimas husband] went out with his gun to try to shoot something to make her some soup, walked for hours and could only shoot a blackbird and a little green-legged snipe, game was so scarce. I think that was all he saw. I cooked them both in a pint tin cup. The little snipe or woodcock cooked very tender and nice. The blackbird must have been very old; for a long time the more I boiled him the harder he got. But the soup of the two was nice and tasty. If offered it to her, she wouldnt look at it nor taste it, so I just popped some into her mouth before she was aware of it. As soon as she tasted it, she opened her eyes and wanted more and began from that hour to improve. The soup was soon gone and the snipe meat. Enos then went to buy a chicken. He had a hard time to find one, had to iron the river, and at last succeeding, persuading a woman to sell him a fine fat hen for 50 cents. By the time this was gone she was well enough to eat anything.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 22:53:37 +0000
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