Burgoo

[J. Eulenberg]

The recipe you quote certainly does make it sound like the state dish!
There's enough to feed at least half the state -- maybe more.  Thanks for
the response!

Julia Niebuhr Eulenberg <eulenbrg at u.washington.edu>

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Dennis R. Preston wrote:

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> Julia,
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> Hardly the same hamlet! It is the state dish. A stew y'all would call
> it, I reckon. See the recipe on p. 167 of The United State Regional
> Cookbook, ed. by Ruth Berolzheimer. Chicago: Culinary Arts Institute,
> 1939. Here is the list of ingredients:
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> 600 lbs lean soup meat
> 200 lbs fat hens
> 2000 lbs potatoes, peeled and diced
> 5 bushels cabbage, chopped
> 200 lbs onions
> 60 #10 cans tomatoes
> 24 #10 cans puree of tomatoes
> 24 #10 cans of carrots
> 18 #10 cans of corn
> Red pepper and salt to taste
> Season with Worcestershire, Tabasco, or A-1 sauce
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> In season, add one dozen squirrels to each 100 gallons.
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> The beginning of the recipe notes it will make 1200 gallons. It is
> the recipe of J. T. Looney of Lexington who, we are told, is (was, I
> reckon, now) Kentucky's most famous burgoo-maker. We are also warned
> that this is a dish not to be attempted by an amateur. It simmers 15
> to 20 hours over outdoor wood fires in big iron pots.
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> dInIs
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> PS: There is an alternative recipe on p. 168 for "small parties."
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>> I heard this term on NPR yesterday morning, and I got up half expecting to
>> see it discussed in the list already . . . nothing, even today!  Or is our
>> friend still in the library searching?  Everyone using it seemed to be
>> from the same hamlet in Kentucky.
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>> Julia Niebuhr Eulenberg <eulenbrg at u.washington.edu>
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