Maturity Journal 5.18

Maturity Journal
The
Cooking
Corner
By Jancey
Smith
Colonial Food
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The hubby actually scored a weekend off recently,
so instead of letting him melt in the recliner to the
History Channel, I dragged him away on a road trip to
go visit our neighbor up north, Vincennes, to experience
the annual Spirit of Vincennes Rendezvous. (It will
be held this month on May 26 & 27.) It’s an historic
reenactment commemorating when George Rogers
Clark and company took on the British leader Henry
Hamilton in an American frontier victory. With almost
everything looking like colonial times, (well, except the
porta potties), it was like stepping back into history.
Not only were men, women and children wearing
frontier-type clothes, but there were painted indians
and soldiers in old-fashioned military garb. How hot
could all that be? It made us appreciate modern styles
and air conditioning.
As we walked through the “French Commons,” as
it’s called, we saw stands that were set up offering merchandise
and foods from the colonial time period. There
were demonstrations like juggling and soap making,
which was different. Apparently, lye soap is good for
poison ivy/oak outbreaks. There were many knives and
types of weapons along with crafty things like quilting,
candles, embroidery and yarn spinning. There was even
colonial period entertainment, like minstrels singing
and using a mandolin that reminded me of old Celtic
songs.
Of course what caught my attention was the food.
All the food sold was by fundraising organizations,
like the Boy Scouts, Kiwanis and church groups, not
commercial vendors. There were some dishes that I
just hadn’t realized how long they’d been a part of
our heritage, like bread pudding, strawberry shortcake,
chicken and dumplings and ham and beans. The food
was supposed to be in the colonial theme, so we saw
ears of corn roasted over smoldering coals and strips of
bacon were draped over an iron pole and cooked over a
pit of charcoal and wood. People walked around eating
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