Pork
Since the Jamestown folks had pigs they well may have made a dish called 'Scrapple.' Also they probably made 'Head Cheese,' another eatable made from pork. There are several variations of both of these dishes but here's a couple of recipes it you want to try them.
Scrapple
Clean and boil a hog's head or fresh pork such as ribs. Take 3 cups of fat-free broth and boil it with one cup of cornmeal. There is a good trick here for cooking the cornmeal this way to avoid having the cornmeal come out in lumps that the recipe doesn't mention. In stead of boiling three cups of broth, boil two and mix the extra cup of cool broth in with the dry cornmeal. Then add the cornmeal to the boiling broth a spoonful at a time, stirring each spoon-full until it has lost any lumps. Now add one teaspoon of salt, one-half teaspoon of pepper or whatever seasoning you like. Add four cups of chopped lean pork and pack it all in a loaf type bread pan. Let it cool thoroughly, then slice and fry it until it is light brown.
Head Cheese
Clean and boil a hog's head. You can also use the cleaned ears and the heart as well. Chop the lean meat fine and put enough fat-free broth over it to cover it. Season it with sage, salt and pepper. Let it sit until the broth jells.
Recommended Reading:
Barbecue Bison Burgers: Truly North American, Buffalo Burger Recipe.
This is a multi-part article with a lot of down-home advice.
Tomatoes President Jefferson's Love Apples.
This article takes you back to when it was thought that tomatoes were poison.
Sources:
Hawke, David Freeman, Editor. Captain John Smith's History of Virginia. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., Indianapolis & New York, 1970.
Morgan, Edmund S. American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1975.
Smith, Hazel, Recipe Collection and Assembly Chairman. Favorite Recipes. Produced by the Columbia Senior Transportation Corporation, 1970.
