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Strawberry Cornmeal


  • Cornmeal.  Cornmeal made from flint corn (often sold as Jonny Cake cornmeal) is the most authentic.
  • Strawberries, or dried huckleberries

From Roger Williams Key Into the Language of America (1642), describing the Wampanoag's mixing of cornmeal with dried or fresh berries:

Sautaash are these currants [huckleberries] dried by the natives, and so preserved all the year, which they beat to powder, and mingle it with their parched meal [cornmeal], and make a delicate dish which they call sautauthig; which is as sweet to them as plum or spice cake to the English.  They also make great use of their strawberries having such abundance of them, making strawberry bread, and having no other food for many days.


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