Below, the list in its entirety, from his 1880 memoir "A Tramp Abroad."
- Radishes
- Baked apples, with cream
- Fried oysters
- Stewed oysters
- Frogs
- American coffee, with real cream
- American butter
- Fried chicken, Southern style
- Porter-house steak
- Saratoga potatoes
- Broiled chicken, American style
- Hot biscuits, Southern style
- Hot wheat bread, Southern style
- Hot buckwheat cakes
- American toast. Clear maple syrup
- Virginia bacon, broiled
- Blue points, on the half shell
- Cherry-stone clams
- San Francisco mussels, steamed
- Oyster soup
- Clam soup
- Philadelphia Terapin soup
- Oysters roasted in shell-Northern style
- Soft-shell crabs
- Connecticut shad
- Baltimore perch.
- Brook trout, from Sierra Nevadas
- Lake trout, from Tahoe
- Sheep-head and croakers, from New Orleans
- Black bass from the Mississippi
- American roast beef
- Roast turkey, Thanksgiving style
- Cranberry sauce
- Celery
- Roast wild turkey
- Woodcock
- Canvas-back-duck, from Baltimore
- Prairie liens, from Illinois
- Missouri partridges, broiled
- ‘Possum
- Coon
- Boston bacon and beans
- Bacon and greens, Southern style
- Hominy
- Boiled onions
- Turnips
- Pumpkin
- Squash
- Asparagus
- Butter beans
- Sweet potatoes
- Lettuce
- Succotash
- String beans
- Mashed potatoes
- Catsup
- Boiled potatoes, in their skins
- New potatoes, minus the skins
- Early rose potatoes, roasted in the ashes, Southern style, served hot
- Sliced tomatoes, with sugar or vinegar
- Stewed tomatoes
- Green corn, cut from the ear and served with butter and pepper
- Green corn, on the ear
- Hot corn-pone, with chitlings, Southern style
- Hot hoe-cake, Southern style
- Hot egg-bread, Southern style
- Hot light-bread, Southern style
- Buttermilk
- Iced sweet milk
- Apple dumplings, with real cream
- Apple pie
- Apple fritters
- Apple puffs, Southern style
- Peach cobbler, Southern style
- Peach pie
- American mince pie
- Pumpkin pie. Squash pie
- All sorts of American pastry
I approve of about 90% of his list. I've had a considerable number of them. My missing items usually have a city name in front; I did not know that Missouri Partridges were different from every day partridges. Missing: Pulled pork, Brunswick stew, and hushpuppies.
ReplyDeleteI love Mrs. Fearnow's Brunswick Stew but is it really Brunswick stew without rabbit?
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