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Campfire Recipes

posted May 12, 2004

Baked scraped corn, or Ogo n sa' ohon'sta'

From Iroquois Uses of Maize and other Food Plants, by A.C.Parker (1910):

The corn is scraped from the cob, pounded in a mortar or mashed in a wooden bowl with a stone, patted into cakes, sprinkled with dry meal...For baking in the ashes the cakes are wrapped in husk and covered with ashes. Embers are heaped over and a brisk fire built, this being kept going until the cakes were considered baked..a British traveler..says of this dish "better flavoured bread I never ate in this country." (Sometimes cooked cranberry beans or berries were mixed with corn before it was baked.)

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