Brunswick Stew

Ingredients

• 1 qt. can tomatoes
• 1 pt. can butter beans or limas
• 1 pt. can green corn
• 6 potatoes, parboiled and sliced
• 1/2 lb. salt pork (fat)
• 1 teaspoonful black pepper
• 1/4 teaspoonful Cayenne
• 1 tablespoonful salt
• 2 tablespoonfuls white sugar
• 1 onion, minced small

Method

1. 1

   Soak squirrels in cold salted water.

2. 2

   Boil water with salt, add onion, beans, corn, pork, potatoes, pepper, and squirrels.

3. 3

   Cover and stew slowly for 2.5 hours, stirring frequently.

4. 4

   Add tomatoes and sugar, stew for another hour, then add butter rolled in flour and boil for ten minutes.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Camp cookery (Kephart) (1910) by Kephart, Horace, page 33. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Brunswick Stew. — This famous huntsman's dish of the Old Dominion is usually prepared with squirrels, but other game will serve as well. The ingredients, besides squirrels, are: 1 qt. can tomatoes, * 1 pt. can butter beans or limas, 1 pt. can green corn, 6 potatoes, parboiled and sliced, 14 lb. butter, 1/2 lb. salt pork (fat), 1 teaspoonful black pepper, 14 teaspoonful Cayenne, 1 tablespoonful salt, 2 tablespoonfuls white sugar, 1 onion, minced small

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