Pounding Green Corn for Bread
For the other kind of bread, John Heckewelder wrote (see post on Wanishi! John Heckewelder) the green corn is either pounded or mashed. Green corn is flour corn in the green or milk stage, when the outer husks are green in color. The green corn is in the corn pounder being mashed.
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Shackamaxon Bean Bread
When the Shackamaxon bean bread was done, there were some ashes to brush off and a wonderful corn aroma but the most frequently asked question from the public was: Are those chocolate chips?
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Shackamaxon Bean Bread Baking
The Indian Bread with Shackamaxon beans is baking on embers of oak that provide a brisk and durable heat.
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Indian Bread with Shackamaxon Beans
The boiled Shackamaxon beans were kneaded into hominy corn pounded as fine as possible and water. The amount of dough pictured will make two breads.
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Shackamaxon beans boiled
The Shackamaxon beans that I grow have always been cooked with hominy corn and dried squash until recently when I needed to boil the “dry beans” for making one of the variant Indian Bread options that John Heckewelder (Moravian missionary) described. The boiled Shackamaxons were drained in a grapevine basket.
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Browned Indian Bread
When the Indian Bread is done, the edges of the one – inch thick bread are well-browned and the smell of baked corn bread is in the air.
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. Baking the Indian Bread
The Indian Bread is baking as John Heckewelder (see post on Wanishi! John Heckewelder) describes with clean ashes from the burning of oak. You can hardly see the bread but the aroma is so corn-tastic!
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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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Forming Indian Bread
John Heckewelder (see post on Wanishi! John Heckewelder) describes just how the bread is formed. After the kneading the bread is made up into cakes of six inches in diameter and about an inch in thickness, rounded off on the edge.
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Kneading Indian Bread
After the fine dry corn is mixed with water, the mixture is kneaded into dough as described by John Heckewelder (see the post on Wanishi! John Heckewelder)
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