[Excerpts from “The
Northern Cookbook” - a now out-of-print 1967 Canadian government publication of
backwoods recipes from native & non-native peoples in Canada’s far north…]
Baked Skunk
Clean, skin, wash. Bake in oven with salt and pepper. Tastes like rabbit (no
smell).
Bear Fat Pastry
1-1/2 cups flour, 1/2 tsp. salt, 1/3 cup bear fat (from a little black bear that
was eating berries). Makes rich white pastry.
Boiled Bone Grease
Boil whatever bones are left after all the meat has been cut off. Boil them all
in a big pot for two hours. Then let the grease get cold in the pot. It is easy
to pick the grease off. Keep the grease to eat with dry meat or add to pounded
meat.
Boiled Lynx
Cut up the lynx and boil it until it is soft and well cooked. Good to eat with
muktuk.
Boiled Porcupine
Make a fire outside and put the porcupine in it to burn off the quills. Wash and
clean well. Cut up and boil until done.
Boiled Reindeer Head
Skin and wash the head well. Then chop it in quarters, splitting it between the
eyes with an axe. Cover with cold water and boil until soft. One can also roast
in an open pan in an oven very slowly.
Boiled Reindeer Or Caribou
Hoofs
Put hoofs (skin still on them) in a large pot. Cover and boil for a couple of
hours. The skin will peal off easily. The muscles are soft and very good to eat.
The toe nails also have some soft sweet meat inside them.
Boiled Reindeer Tongues
Boil tongues until thoroughly cooked. Potatoes and vegetables are good with
this.
Boiled Smoked Beaver
Smoke the beaver for a day or so. Cut up the meat and boil it with salted water
until done.
Dry Fish Pudding
Pound up 5 to 6 dry fish. Throw away skin. Add sugar, a little grease, and
cranberries.
Frozen Fish Eggs
Take fish eggs out and freeze them. They are good to eat like this.
Grizzly Bear Steaks
Cut up meat as for frying and fry in deep grease in frying pan.
Jellied Moose Nose
Cut the upper jaw bone of the moose just below the eyes. Boil in a large kettle
for 45 minutes. Remove and chill. Pull out all the hairs (like plucking a duck)
and wash until none remain. Place nose in a kettle and cover with fresh water.
Add onion, garlic, spices, and vinegar. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and
simmer until meat is tender. Let cool overnight. When cool, discard the bones
and cartilage. You will have white meat from the bulb of the nose and dark meat
from the bones and jowls. Slice thinly and alternate layers of white and dark
meat in a loaf pan. Let cool until jelly has set. Slice and serve cold.
Muktuk (meat inside skin and fat of a whale)
After taken from whale, leave 2 days hanging up to dry. Cut into 6” x 6” pieces.
Cook until tender. After cooked, keep in a cool place in a 45-gallon drum of
oil, in order to have muktuk all year.
Muskrat Tails
Cut off the tails and dip them into very hot water. Pull off the fur. Either
cook them on top of the stove, turning them on top of the stove, turning them
after a few minutes, or boil them. (This is the same method as for beaver tails.
Both are very sticky to eat.)
Oven-Roasted Lynx
Wash and clean the hind legs of the lynx and roast it with lard and a little
water.
Steamed Muskrat Legs
Cut off the muskrat’s legs, dip in a bowl of flour with salt, pepper, and other
strong seasoning. Put grease into a large frying pan. Put in the muskrat legs.
Cover and cook for a long time as they take long to become tender. The strong
seasoning takes away the actual taste of the muskrat.
Stuffed Muskrat
Clean the rats well and put them in a roaster with bread stuffing on top. Roast
until the muskrats are soft.
Moose are the squirrels of Alaska. - Tim Moon
She did not so much cook as assassinate food. - Storm Jameson
Char: Common method of cooking over a campfire - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is. - Jimmy Durante
Cookbook: A volume that is full of stirring passages - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Poultry is for the cook what canvas is for the painter. - Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I don't even butter my bread. I consider that cooking. - Katherine Cebrian
I'm a terrible cook, but I make very good lobster salad. - Nancy Carell
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. - Julia Child
My wife is such a bad cook, in my house we pray after the meal. - Rodney Dangerfield
I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking - mostly Thai food. - Will Ferrell
Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out. - Nicole Hollander
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. - Lao Tzu
If ever a chef were to cook a fly, he would keep the breast for himself. - Poland Proverb
The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook. - Julia Child
My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor. - Phyllis Diller
When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. - Gail Sheehy
A recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation. - Madame Benoit
Moose: An animal that has a head and horns on one end and a living room wall on the other - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
If you meet someone who can cook and do housework, don't hesitate a minute - marry him! - Rita Rudner
My wife is such a bad cook, if we leave dental floss in the kitchen the roaches hang themselves. - Rodney Dangerfield
I prefer Hostess fruit pies to pop-up toaster tarts because they don't require as much cooking. - Carrie Snow
A moose is an animal with horns on the front of its head and a hunting lodge wall on the back of it. - Groucho Marx
Breakfast is my favorite meal. I cook a big one for everyone - bacon and eggs. I own a lot of eggcups. - Emily Mortimer
It was so hot today that Burger King was singing, 'if you want it your way, cook it yourself.' - Johnny Carson
In the words of Harry S. Truman, "If it's too hot in the kitchen, stay away from the cook." - Archie Bunker
I'm not always optimistic. You wouldn't have all cylinders cooking if you were always like Mary Poppins. - Carol Burnett
The wonderful world of home appliances now makes it possible to cook indoors with charcoal and outdoors with gas. - Bill Vaughan
An expert is like the bottom of a double boiler. It shoots off a lot of steam, but it never really knows what's cooking. - Unknown
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Unless he doesn't like sushi, then you also have to teach him to cook. - Auren Hoffman
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since. - Salvador Dali
Mancation: A man's vacation. Generally includes lots of beer, a Redneck grill, slabs of meat for cooking and a sack of fireworks. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood. - Paz Vega
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. - Henry David Thoreau
The moose is singularly grotesque and awkward to look at. Why should it stand so high at the shoulders? Why have so long a head? Why have no tail to speak of? - Henry David Thoreau
Although oyster mushrooms have been studied extensively and support health in a number of ways, it is also extremely important to always cook oyster mushrooms. - Paul Stamets
Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing 'Embraceable You' in spats. - Woody Allen
Bistro cooking is good, traditional food, earnestly made and honestly displayed. It is earthy, provincial, or bourgeois; as befits that kind of food, it is served in ample portions. - David Liederman
Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity. If you wanted to run the blender, you had to rub balloons on your head. If you wanted to cook, you had to pull off a sweater real quick. - Steven Wright
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