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You know the Indians live mostly on venison and hominy, but when a visitor comes, sugar, bear's oil, honey, and rum, if they have it, are to be set before him." "Suppose they do not have anything in the house to eat?" "Then the fact is stated quietly. It is at once accepted as sufficient.
Out beyond the shadows were broad stretches of fields with the lush June in the wide and shining blade and the flaunting tassel. The voices of women and young girls came cheerily from the breezy midst as they tilled the ground, where flourished in their proper divisions the three varieties of maize known to Indian culture, "the six weeks' corn, the hominy corn, and the bread corn."
And, sitting on the doorstep and eating, and drinking coffee, he had persuaded my grandmother that if she would give him a place to locate on credit he knew a way to clear a whole lot of money. His project for making money was the selling of home-made hominy to the restaurants up in town. I found him squatted on the bare floor, with no furniture in the room.
Cold hominy, or rice may be used in place of mashed potatoes, and is equally as good. BEEF HASH. No. 1. Chop rather finely cold roast beef or pieces of beefsteak, also chop twice as much cold boiled potatoes.
With a look of admiring computation upon the girl Virgie, Joe Johnson drew his long figure down the stairs, like a pole. "What a brutal giant," Vesta said; "and how came he to be doing our errands?" "Why, Aunt Hominy hadn't nobody to bring the wheelbarrow load, and this man said he'd come, and he would come, Miss Vesty, so I couldn't say anything."
Their swords were beaten out of old mill-saws at the country forge, and their bullets were made largely from pewter mugs and other pewter utensils. Their rations were very scant and simple. Marion, their leader, as a rule, ate hominy and potatoes and drank water flavored with a little vinegar. The story is told that one day a British officer came to the camp with a flag of truce.
"Wake four of the men," Jones whispered, and when they were aroused he said to a tall, reeling shadow, idly waiting orders: "We'll be back in a half-hour, or an hour at the farthest. Let the men sleep; they need it. Sleep yourself if you want to. Moon or I will come to rouse you, and we will bring you plenty of bacon and hominy.
Serve with hot biscuit, or waffles or muffins, and strong, clear coffee. Tart apples cored but not peeled sliced in rings and fried in hot fat, drained out and sprinkled lightly with sugar, add to the charm of even the finest ham. So does hominy, the full-grained sort, boiled tender beforehand, and fried till there is a thick, brown crust all over the skillet bottom.
She was reflecting that he was a rustic, that she hated him, that she had been insane to marry him, that she had married him only because she was tired of work, that she must get her long gloves cleaned, that she would never do anything more for him, and that she mustn't forget his hominy for breakfast. She was roused to attention by his storming: "I'm a fool to think about a new house.
It is a quiet little place, with its one hotel and two attached cottages, its old, disused saw-mill, its tiny schoolhouse beyond the fairy-like woods, its one general merchandise store, where cheese and calico, hats and hoes, ham and hominy, are forthcoming upon solicitation.
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