Heart to Hearth Cookery

Putting Bread on Oak Ashes

John Heckewelder (see post on Wanishi! John Heckewelder) wrote specific observations on the baking of Indian Bread.  In baking these cakes, they (the Lenape) are extremely particular; the ashes must be clean and hot, and if possible come out of good dry oak barks, which they  say gives a good and durable heat.

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