Guest guest Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 Hi everyone, I need some brainstorming help! Our homeschool group is having a pioneer picnic at Little House on the Prairie. It will be a potluck picnic. Any ideas what a vegan would bring to a pioneer picnic?? We recently started reading the books and I got to say, the first chapter of the first book is all about killing animals and dressing them and storing them for winter. Which I understand is what had to be done at the time, but it was hard for me to read! So that's all that's sticking in my head right now and I'm having a hard time coming up with good pioneer food! Any ideas would be much appreciated! Thanks, Elizabeth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 Elizabeth, Not long ago I wrote a Little House on the Prairie style book review for VegBooks. Check out the review here: http://vegbooks.org/index.php/2010/02/09/the-deer-in-the-wood-guest-post-by-jacq\ ueline-bodnar/ In that book Pa didn't have the heart to kill the animals. So they dined on bread and butter. I would suggest making some vegan corn bread to take! That would be a pioneer type of food and it's easy to make vegan corn bread. Other possibilities include corn on the cob, vegan buckwheat pancakes, beans, vegetables, a vegetable soup, a vegan pudding, a vegan fruit pie... Jacqueline Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 27, 2010 Report Share Posted April 27, 2010 BBQ Tempeh and Baked Beans! - marionandella Tuesday, April 27, 2010 9:23 AM pioneer picnic food Hi everyone, I need some brainstorming help! Our homeschool group is having a pioneer picnic at Little House on the Prairie. It will be a potluck picnic. Any ideas what a vegan would bring to a pioneer picnic?? We recently started reading the books and I got to say, the first chapter of the first book is all about killing animals and dressing them and storing them for winter. Which I understand is what had to be done at the time, but it was hard for me to read! So that's all that's sticking in my head right now and I'm having a hard time coming up with good pioneer food! Any ideas would be much appreciated! Thanks, Elizabeth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 Thank you Jacqueline and June! Those are great ideas! Elizabeth On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:18 PM, June Waterman <june wrote: > > > BBQ Tempeh and Baked Beans! > > > - > marionandella > <%40> > Tuesday, April 27, 2010 9:23 AM > pioneer picnic food > > Hi everyone, > I need some brainstorming help! Our homeschool group is having a pioneer > picnic at Little House on the Prairie. It will be a potluck picnic. Any > ideas what a vegan would bring to a pioneer picnic?? We recently started > reading the books and I got to say, the first chapter of the first book is > all about killing animals and dressing them and storing them for winter. > Which I understand is what had to be done at the time, but it was hard for > me to read! So that's all that's sticking in my head right now and I'm > having a hard time coming up with good pioneer food! Any ideas would be much > appreciated! > Thanks, > Elizabeth > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 29, 2010 Report Share Posted April 29, 2010 It has been some time since I read those books, but I remember a pioneer form of snow cones- literally snow gathered and drizzled with maple syrup. Would be easy to make a shaved ice version. Sent from my iPad On Apr 29, 2010, at 8:41 AM, Elizabeth Murray <funwiththekids wrote: Thank you Jacqueline and June! Those are great ideas! Elizabeth On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:18 PM, June Waterman <june wrote: > > > BBQ Tempeh and Baked Beans! > > > - > marionandella > <%40> > Tuesday, April 27, 2010 9:23 AM > pioneer picnic food > > Hi everyone, > I need some brainstorming help! Our homeschool group is having a pioneer > picnic at Little House on the Prairie. It will be a potluck picnic. Any > ideas what a vegan would bring to a pioneer picnic?? We recently started > reading the books and I got to say, the first chapter of the first book is > all about killing animals and dressing them and storing them for winter. > Which I understand is what had to be done at the time, but it was hard for > me to read! So that's all that's sticking in my head right now and I'm > having a hard time coming up with good pioneer food! Any ideas would be much > appreciated! > Thanks, > Elizabeth > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 3, 2010 Report Share Posted May 3, 2010 What fun! Sorry I'm a little late to the party but here are a few (OK, a lot of) ideas: Old Time Sheep Sorrel Pie Bread Pudding Cole Slaw Barley Stew Baked Beans and Cornbread Sourdough bread Doughnuts Raspberry Quencher Some recipes follow. Have fun! Laurie - homeschooling mom (4 graduated HS, 6 to go) www.AnotherBlessing.com Pregnancy and Ovulation Predictor Tests as low as 50 CENTS! Doughnuts This recipe is from The Little House Cookbook. For 2 dozen doughnuts you will need: 2 pounds lard 1 egg 1 teaspoon of baking soda ½ teaspoon salt 1 cup sour cream 2¼ cups of unbleached all-purpose flour a shaker full of powdered sugar quart kettle quart bowl rolling pin candy thermometer Melt the lard in kettle over low heat. Beat egg, baking soda, and salt into the sour cream in the bowl. Beat in 1 cup of flour until well mixed. Continue to work in flour, ¼ cup at a time, until you have a dough that can be rolled. Roll the dough in a strip about 4 by 16 by ¼ inches. With a floured knife cut into inch strips about five eighth inch wide. Heat the lard to 375 degrees F. Twist a strip like a corkscrew (it will stretch as you do); bring ends together and pinch them. Drop twisted dough in hot fat. In 2 minutes the dough should be brown on both sides, crisp and cooked through. If browning takes more than 3 minutes, the fat is not hot enough; if browning takes less time, the fat is too hot. Remove cooked doughnut to brown paper to drain and coat it with powdered sugar. Continue twisting and cooking the remaining dough strips. Serve the doughnuts immediately. Raspberry Quencher this recipe is from the book Food for the Settlers. Mix 1 L of white vinegar with 2 L of raspberries. Let the mix stand for 24 hours. Drain the liquid through a sieve. Add 2 L of raspberries to the strained liquid and let stand. The next day strain and add 2 L more of berries. Put the liquid into the top of a double boiler. Add 250 ml sugar for every 500 ml of liquid. (Measure the liquid as you put it into a pot.) Stir the sugar into the raspberry liquid until melted. Store the syrup in bottles for two weeks to allow the flavor to develop. When you need a refreshing drink, just add a small amount (30 - 50 ml) to a glass of plain or soda water, or make the quencher up in a pitcher. Old Time Sheep Sorrel Pie During pioneer times lemons usually were very scarce. In order to satisfy their taste for lemon pie, women learned to use the pink-flowered sheep sorrel that grew wild on the prairie as a substitute for lemons. They used a regular lemon pie recipe but substituted a cup of shredded sheep sorrel for the lemons. The pie has a tart lucious flavour, similar to real lemon pie. Source: Saskatoon Fair Pion-era Cookbook No.1, published in 1966. , " marionandella " <funwiththekids wrote: > > Hi everyone, > I need some brainstorming help! Our homeschool group is having a pioneer picnic at Little House on the Prairie. It will be a potluck picnic. Any ideas what a vegan would bring to a pioneer picnic?? We recently started reading the books and I got to say, the first chapter of the first book is all about killing animals and dressing them and storing them for winter. Which I understand is what had to be done at the time, but it was hard for me to read! So that's all that's sticking in my head right now and I'm having a hard time coming up with good pioneer food! Any ideas would be much appreciated! > Thanks, > Elizabeth > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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