This collection reprints two classic booklets and one academic paper on American Indian cookery. Included are Choctaw, Chickasaw, Osage, Navaho, Sioux, and other recipes.
Authenticated American Indian Recipes (1955) was written by Sylvester and Alice Tinker, Oklahoma Indian Cook Book (1956) was written by Mae Abbott, and “Navajo foods and cooking methods,” (American Anthropologist, 1940) was written by Flora L. Bailey.
Lots of foodlore and recipes are included, like Indian Mush, Baked Winter Squash, Fried Squirrel, Wild Grape Dumplings, Baked Raccoon, Bean Bread, Quail Deluxe, Indian Candy, and Blood Pudding.
