Green Corn Festival Feast
SUGGESTED DISHES TO
BRING:
*Roasted Corn - (Required) Corn on the Cob, great
numbers of roasting ears were prepared, and all the people ate as freely as
they desired. Seasoned with butter, salt, and red chile powder.
Blue Corn Chips & Salsa – Blue corn is considered sacred,
good idea to bring.
Sofk - a traditional Seminole
drink made of watery corn grits, served hot or cold, can be sweetened with corn
or maple syrup.
Fry bread, Baked, or Boiled Corn
Bread: The Iroquois Indians
made a wonderful boiled corn bread. They made flour by pounding corn into
flour. To make bread, they mixed water with corn flour. Sometimes cooked beans were added, or berries or
nuts. The bread was kneaded and formed into small loaves. The loaves
were dropped into boiling water and cooked until the bread floated. Boiled corn
bread was served both hot and cold. They also used the same bread mix to bake
bread by putting it on clay tablets in the fire. They used sunflower oil to fry
bread.
Recipe: If you want to try making
Iroquois corn bread, mix flour with water and a little salt. Knead it. Turn it
out on a floured board. Keep kneading until you can handle the bread without it
sticking to your fingers. Then either boil it or fry it. If you want it to puff
up, add a little baking soda.
New Mexico Spicy Corn Bread
- Baked with diced jalapenos
or diced green chiles added are great!
New Mexico Sopapillas – Fry bread served plain drizzled
with Honey.
*Seminole Fry Bread
- (Highly
desired), served topped with cherry
pie filling and powered sugar - makes a super
dessert item!!
Pot of Hot Soup or Posole – Chicken soup or Posole which is
stew of corn pone (large corn kernels) and boiled beef, seasoned with bay leaf,
garlic, cumin, salt pepper.
BBQ Beef Ribs – no explanation needed.
Yokeag - (parched and ground corn),
Grinding Muskogee yokeag is a part of the Wigwam (homecoming or corn harvest)
festival. Similar to Grits.
*Succotash – Required, as the "Three Sisters" is a sacred and traditional dish of most
Native American Cultures a combination of corn,
beans, and squash.
Hearts of Palm Salad – (Highly desired) for those who
prefer a green salad with a meal - add canned, chilled hearts of palm to a
mixed salad, vinaigrette dressing.
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