makaks

Updated: May 28, 2025

They smoke the berries over a slow fire, I am told, and when dry, pack them in the usual birch-bark makaks; and I've seen them mixed with the dough of bread, and boiled with venison or porcupine, or whatever other meat was going, as we would use whole pepper. 'After the whortleberries, they were to go to the rice-grounds, observed Arthur.

Elizabeth Hely Walshe - Cedar Creek: From the Shanty to the Settlement