Red Flannel Hash (1872?)

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   DARE has "red flannel hash" from DIALECT NOTES (1907).  It's a New England
dish.  John Mariani's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN FOOD AND DRINK (1999)--well,
maybe he just forgot.
   See Lila Perl's RED-FLANNEL HASH AND SHOO-FLY PIE: AMERICAN REGIONAL FOODS
AND FESTIVALS (1965).  No date or etymology is given there, however.
   This interesting citation is from the ancestry.com newspapers.


   29 April 1872, DAILY REPUBLICAN (Decatur, Illinois), pg.3?, col. 3:
   The last thing out is "Dolly Varden" hash.  It is made of red flannel, old
rubber shoes, and salt beef.  Dolly used to make it when she was a girl, all
except the old rubber shoe ingredient, that having been added since her day,
to show the progress of the age.