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Default Foxfire Books Recipes


"Bob Terwilliger" > wrote in message
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>>> On 8/31/2011 8:32 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>>>> The Foxfire Books. 1972. These books have some interesting recipes from
>>>> the folks who live in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. I love how
>>>> vague they can be. This is like reading one of my grandmother's
>>>> recipes.
>>>> She just assumed everyone knew how long and at what temperature to cook
>>>> something.
>>>>
>>>> Brunswick Stew

>>
>> cook stew at a low simmer, until is done. You need a cookbook to tell
>> you that?

>
> If you use canned vegetables as the recipe suggests, everything is
> *already* done, since you start off with cooked meat. That doesn't look
> like any "real" Brunswick stew recipe that I've ever seen. In fact, it
> looks like it came straight off the set of "Semi-Homemade".



the recipe was uninspiring for sure. I was commenting only on the OP's need
for cooking instructions for stew.