2 squirrels—3, if small.
1 quart of tomatoes—peeled and sliced.
1 pint butter-beans, or Lima.
6 potatoes—parboiled and sliced.
6 ears of green corn cut from the cob.
½ lb. butter.
½ lb. fat salt pork.
1 teaspoonful ground black pepper.
Half a teaspoonful cayenne.
1 gallon water.
1 tablespoonful salt.
2 teaspoonfuls white sugar.
1 onion, minced small.
Put on the water with the salt in it, and boil five minutes. Put in the
onion, beans, corn, pork or bacon cut into shreds, potatoes, pepper,
and the squirrels, which must first be cut into joints and laid in cold
salt and water to draw out the blood. Cover closely and stew two and a
half hours very slowly, stirring frequently from the bottom. Then add
the tomatoes and sugar, and stew an hour longer. Ten minutes before
you take it from the fire add the butter, cut into bits the size of a
walnut, rolled in flour. Give a final boil, taste to see that it is
seasoned to your liking, and turn into a soup-tureen. It is eaten from
soup-plates. Chickens may be substituted for squirrels.