Rez Cheese - Softcover

Wiley, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1490786430 ISBN 13: 9781490786438

Verlag: Trafford, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

This book is called Rez Cheez to memorialize those huge blocks of cheese that were part of the Treaty Rights for Native Nations who ended the genocide of the Native American people and the five-hundred-year wars between Native Nations (who did not believe in war) and those who invaded their lands with newly made guns. The old recipes are mentioned, as well as ways to create them in view of better traditional use of healthy foods, and to better control the diabetes that resulted from those treaty foods which more often than not consisted of fat, sugar, and white flour. All foods not contained in traditional recipes. The cover picture is zucchini lasagne, a heart and diabetes healthier version of use of vegetables and squash which is a traditional Native Nation food resource and of course, Rez cheese, or healthier versions.

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The author is a Native Pomo Elder growing up between the Rez of her Dad and Pasadena, California, home of her Mother. The author is brain injured following a severe high fever disease and has changed careers to train out bad boy horses to raise money for an equine therapy program for high risk youth, veterans, first responders and their families. The book Carousel Horse is an inclusion novel detailing what those programs accomplish.

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Rez Cheese

By Elizabeth Wiley

Trafford Publishing

Copyright © 2018 Elizabeth Wiley MA JD, POMO Elder
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-4907-8643-8

Contents

Breakfast, 17, 
Pancakes, 17, 
Breakfast fry bread and eggs, 21, 
Fry bread., 25, 
EGGS FOR BREAKFAST, 27, 
Meat and eggs, 28, 
BREADS AND TORTILLAS, 29, 
POTATOES, 31, 
ACORN, or other MUSH, 33, 
Lunch, 37, 
Fry Bread Tacos, 37, 
Acorn crepe roll ups, 39, 
MACARONI AND REZ CHEEZ, 40, 
MEAT, 44, 
Sandwiches, 49, 
Salads, 51, 
Dinner, 56, 
Biscuit on a stick, 56, 
Barbequed meat, 57, 
Abalone (and other sea treats), 57, 
Steak sizzled on a rock, 59, 
Steak sizzled on a plank, 60, 
Steamed and fresh vegetables, 60, 
Stew, 61, 
Soup, 61, 
Rice, 62, 
Beans, 62, 
PUMPKINS and SQUASH, 64, 
Desserts, 66, 
Fruit and berry desserts, 66, 
Cheese and cream, 67, 
Book Exerpts, 69, 
GRANDMOTHER AND AUNTIE GARDENS, 69, 
COWBOYS N NDNS, 86, 
LEGAL ETHICS: NOT JUST AN OXYMORON, 90, 
OTHER BOOKS BY AUTHOR, 95, 

CHAPTER 1

RECIPES:

I have put both the old recipes, and newer, more health friendly recipes in this book: Research is now in progress finding that original foods are helping Native Americans to avoid or keep "the diabetes" under control. The research is also showing that the sugar, fat, and white flour the treaty foods left, and the current foods bought with food stamps or on reservation store shelves has created the diabetic crisis statistics for Native Americans.

Diabetes was called "the diabetes". It was a scary lurking reality when I was a child. When I was 18 I decided with one of my sisters that we did not want "the diabetes". Weight Watchers had just started a couple of years before, so we joined, hoping it would help us learn something that would keep "the diabetes" at bay.

Breakfast

Pancakes

My Grandmother, her sisters, and cousins, who we called "the Aunties" generally had, or at one time had had jobs in town, or in a far away cities, but they maintained their old ways of mixing up pancakes (as most of their recipes) using the "eye ball it" method of measuring, or amounts we children thought magic, the ability to pour something into their hand and know the right amount for amazingly good breakfast treats.

Depending on the reservation, and the poverty of the moment, pancakes could be as simple as flour, baking soda, and water, or complex, tasty treats with berries, fruits, and new cream piled high if the family had access to fresh whole milk. Sometimes the surplus box had some giant size pancake and biscuit mix and that was used to make the breakfast pancakes. If the family had their own chickens, geese and ducks, eggs were added to the mix.]

Once in awhile big packages which said EGGS on the white container sides came. I can still remember how nasty those dried eggs were, they were surplus from dried eggs sold to the military in most cases. These eggs were added to the pancakes rather than use real eggs. The taste did not make the pancakes taste bad.

Pancakes, depending on the delivery from the BIA, or on access and money to buy from town might be packaged pancake mix, or made from flour, sugar, butter delivered by the BIA agent. Either way was a great treat for those of kids visiting the Aunties that day. After foodstamps began to be used, most reserves handed out food stamps rather than government surplus commodities to the communities.

A general recipe:

Two one pint canning jars of flour (and sift it unless you wanted a little extra protein from bugs in those old days of BIA food disbursements).

One small fist full of sugar (you might want to sift that as well).

A big cooking spoonful of lard, or a slab of butter sliced with a hot knife off the five pound block of butter, or melted out of a five gallon tub of lard by heating a metal cooking spoon and then scooping out lard from the bucket with the hot spoon. The lard or butter was then melted slightly by leaving it in a small pan or a clean can on the top of the wood stove a few minutes. When there was not enough butter, lard was used. When no lard, a slop of pork fat out of the used rinsed out food can that was kept on the back of the wood stove with left over bacon, or pork drippings. This can of drippings was also used for gravy which is discussed later with biscuits.

1/2 teaspoon of baking soda for each cup of flour The women and little old ladies simply poured the right amount in their hand and tossed it into the mix.

or 1 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder for each cup of flour (a canning jar of flour meant 2 to 4 teaspoons of baking powder, or a heaped teaspoon of baking soda.

a large pinch of salt two big eggs mixed with either a half cup of remixed powdered milk, canned milk, or a cup of real milk Stir together all the liquids After sifting the flour mix with the other dry ingredients (depending on the bugs, it was well worth sifting ALL the dry ingredients, including the dry milk)

Mix loosely together, do not over mix, lumps are OK!

Using an old tea cup drop by half cupfuls on the big greased up griddle, or huge wrought iron pan as big as the stove top, or often on the top of the wood stove itself.

When the bubbles start forming, add nuts, fruit cut into small chunks, berries, cheese cut into small bites, or grated, raisons, candies of many types were all celebrated by the children and the young at heart.

The more grease you add to the hot pan or grill surface, whether butter, vegetable oil, lard, or bacon/pork renderings from cooking pork, the crisper the pancakes will be on the sides.

When the bubbles are set, turn the pancakes over, and check until done, nice light brown, not burnt or raw.

Pile up on a hot pot or metal plate set on the back of the stove or in a warm oven, and finish cooking all the pancakes.

Serve with one of those industrial size jars of peanut butter, jam, or homemade jam and preserves, and either store bought or homemade syrup or honey, and of course MORE butter. Another great topping for these pancakes was a big bowl of cream taken off the top of fresh milk that had sat out from the last milking and scooped off the top of the bucket of milk, or out of the top of the cans waiting to be picked up by the dairy co op for processing and sale.

Depending on how many people were eating breakfast, and what they were doing, from shearing sheep, to branding cattle, to milking a dairy full of cows, or other farm work, or a barn raising, fixing either a house, barn, or putting in fences for an elderly or disabled person, or a family of relatives or just sitting around talking about the sermon you could put the whole jar of peanut butter, or gallon of jam on the table. The syrup often came in a quart sized white papered can that said in black letters "Syrup". This was often heated and poured into washed glass milk bottles, or heat proof one quart measuring cups and set on the table as well.

Another great topping for these pancakes was a big bowl of cream taken off the top of fresh milk that had sat out from the last milking and scooped off the top of the bucket of milk, or out of the top of the cans waiting to be picked up by the dairy co op for processing and sale.

For a healthier diet, buy a store bought mix that has all the ingredients contained and mixes with water. Follow the directions and look at the calorie count. Cook on a non stick pan, and serve with the fruit or berries only.

Some nuts and...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Trafford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1490786430
• ISBN 13: 9781490786438
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 108
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