How to make Brunswick Stew

 

Mt. Ampersand from Round Lake, Adirondack Mountains, 1902.
Mt. Ampersand from Round Lake, Adirondack Mountains, 1902.

This recipe for Brunswick Stew comes from “Canoe and Camp Cookery: A Practical Cook Book for Canoeists, Corinthian Sailors and Outers” by “Seneca” 1885. It mentions that “This is a favorite Virginia dish, of which the compiler of this book has eaten, but which he has never cooked. The recipe here given is said by an old Virginian to be reliable.” I would imagine that chicken could be substituted for squirrel.

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A large river trout

Trout
Illustration from “Prairie and Forest: A Description of The Game of North America, with Personal Adventures in their Pursuit” by Parker Gillmore, “Ubique,” 1874.

I have not had much experience fishing, save a particularly embarrassing crawdad incident in my youth, but thought that some of you out there might enjoy this episode about fly fishing and a colorful tale about catching a trout as relayed from “Prairie and Forest: A Description of The Game of North America, with Personal Adventures in their Pursuit” by Parker Gillmore, “Ubique,” 1874.

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