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Reminiscences & Narratives of Pioneers
THEIR EVENING MEAL AND MENU

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Transcribed from
the ©1920 "History of Hall County," by Buechler, Barr, and Stough

When the tent was properly placed the evening meal was prepared. The Indian's common items for his menus were buffalo meat, soups, and cracked corn. They liked to take cracked corn and make a corn soup with it. Sometimes when they could get the corn meal they would have a corn-bread very like our own, and even pancakes. They would take a hot flat rock, place it up at the fire and plaster their batter on it, or place their dough on it to bake. If they could get a skillet, the white man's invention, so much the better and more acceptable. Sometimes they would take a rock and scoop out the center, in which they would prepare the soup. They used this rock or stone kettle very frequently.

When they came to eat they had a spoon made out of a buffalo's horn; they cut the horn at such a place as to make the spoon properly crooked. By cutting the horn in two peices at the right place they would have a spoon very much like our largest table spoons, and would eat out of that. A person would be surprised at the number of little things they devised, so much like our kitchen utensils.