Title: Dumplings ... Oho' Sta'
Categories: Amerind Grain Dumpling
Yield: 1 Servings

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Moisten a mass of corn meal with boiling water and quickly mold it into cakes in the closed hand moistened in cold water. Drop the dumplings one by one into boiling water and boil for a half hour. Dumplings were the favorite thing to cook with boiling meats, specially game birds.

To fish the dumplings from the pot everyone had a sharpened stick or bone. The dumplings were speared and held on the stick to cool and nibbled with the meat as it was eaten. The sticks after use were wiped off and stuck between the logs or bark of the wall for future use. Many of the sharpened splinters of bone now excavated from village and camp sites are probably nothing more than these primitive forks, or more properly food holders. Oho' sta' was one of the foods of which children were very fond, nor did grown people despise it as a bread with their meat. Source: "Iroquois Uses of Maize and Other Food Plants, New York State Museum Bulletin 144," by Arthur C. Parker, p. 73, November 1, 1910 Shared by: Norman R. Brown 2/93

Submitted By BILL CHRISTMAS

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