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Re: the attack of the killer frozen dumplings



Bannock may have been attributed to a native American group, but probably
by someone from Scotland where bannock is a bun with lots of sultanas.

|((|  Ellen (3/8ths Scottish) Chapman
|((|  University of Hawaii at Manoa Library


On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Boles, Jan wrote:

> 1-11-2002
>
> List,
>
> There is a traditional bread recipe called "bannock" that is sometimes
> attributed to Native Americans. It makes a great trail food. Our family also
> enjoys it fresh off the griddle.
>
> I can visualize a frozen chunk as a rock-like missile.
>
> Jan Boles, Archivist
> The Robert E. Smylie Archives
> Albertson College of Idaho
> 2112 Cleveland Blvd
> Caldwell, ID 83605-4494
> (208) 459-0514
> jboles@albertson.edu
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sharon [mailto:centans@TAMPABAY.RR.COM]
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 3:34 PM
> To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: Re: the attack of the killer frozen dumplings
>
>
> Could this have been a piece of "hard tack", a really tough bread used
> by sailors and soldiers too.  With the cold weather, it could have frozen
> up and been a tough as a brick. Hard tack is a bread that is very dry
> and tough, but preserves well, a bit like crackers. It served well for
> long journeys before refrigeration--just throw it in your canvas sack and
> you had portable food.
>
> Sharon Centanne
>
> Russell Baker wrote:
>
> > Colleagues:
> >
> >         Since this is Friday and I value your expertise, I thought to
> share
> > with you one of the stranger incidents I have come across in my research
> > into American Frontier History, the attack on the frozen dumplings. James
> > Hubbard, an early settler in east Tennessee, was a noted "Indian fighter",
> > and, I must confess, my ancestor. About 1783, during the Cherokee Wars in
> > Tennessee,  he had a chance encounter with a Native American named
> "Watts".
> > instead of fighting, they set down together on the trail to share a hasty
> > common meal. It must have been about this time of the year, the dead of
> > winter. Hubbard brought out venison and other game and offered to share
> it.
> > Watts is said to have brought out of his larder a "mess" or perhaps a
> "mass"
> > "of frozen dumplings". During the course of the meal, Watts "sprang to his
> > feet drew a frozen dumpling and hit Hubbard on the upper lip cutting it
> > badly". You can guess what followed. All of this is taken from the Draper
> > Manuscript Collection for Tennessee. What I want to know is has any one
> ever
> > heard of a "frozen dumpling" being used as an attack weapon or for any
> other
> > purpose? And what in the world was a "frozen dumpling" in 1783? Was it a
> > staple of native American diet, frontier fare?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Russell P. Baker, CA
> > Arkansas History Commission and State Archives
> > One Capitol Mall
> > Little Rock, AR 72201
> > 501-682-6900
> > russell.baker@mail.state.ar.us <mailto:russell.baker@mail.state.ar.us>
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