THE MANDAN MEALPLACE

Delicacies of the plains

Starters

 

Cattail and poke stir-fry salad...

Salad of cattails, Young poke leaves, onions, pine nuts, dill weed, buffalo meat, salt and pepper for seasoning, ginger root, oil, and crushed red chili ............only five shells!!!

 

Corn balls...

Ground dried corn kernels hand grinded with dried chokecherry and tallow...............handful of blue beads for a platter of ten!

 

Campfire salad...

Wild fruit, nuts, berries, turnip and a potato...........two finely crafted arrows.

 

Entrees

 

Roasted turtle...

Turtle roasted on its back until its shell cracks, guaranteed to be well done..........one buffalo horn for one turtle

 

Buffalo jerky...

Hickory smoked to perfection……………for half of a buffalo hide you will enjoy ten big slices.

 

 

 

 

 

Soups

 

Campfire stew

Includes a fistful of ground buffalo meat, potatoes, wild onions, carrots, and salt and pepper to taste...................................one beaver pelt for five bowls!

 

Stew of the night

With good red meat, a soup bone, and fresh spring water..........................five hawk feathers for one bowl.

 

Drinks and Refreshments

 

Berry Spritzer

Lots of wild delicious blueberries and raspberries with water from the oasis near camp........................two red beads

 

Fresh spring water

The name says it all!.......................one pebble for one bowl

 

12/8/03