Fried Quoits Recipe.
Dear Readers – I need your help! What, you ask, is a quoit? I hope someone here knows. Tried the old Google standby and it came up blank. Did a cross-reference on the Library of Congress newspaper database and it also came up blank. This is a first for me.
Take a look at the recipe below, it was in the ‘bread’ section of the book that has recipes for grits, cornmeal, etc. The cooking method is wonderfully descriptive. Maybe it’s a typo?
There’s another mystery, too – What’s with the visit from the oldest grandmother? Is that like you’re going to have indigestion in the middle of the night? Or she’s going to come and nag you? I love colorful cookbook authors.
I did find the reference to the Lees and Clutterbuck book, A Ramble in British Columbia, first published in 1887, which looks like a colorful and fun little read, but I couldn’t find the recipe above. They do give us a fantastic picture of what our campsite would have looked like 130 years ago. Fish, anyone?
Here’s a link to Camp Cookery, more to come.
Happy camping!
From the recipe description I think it’s just another name for a doughnut made of biscuit dough.
As for the grandmother’s visit, it looks like a joke/threat – if you’ll fail to fry it right, an old ghost will visit you…
Wired recipe! 🙂
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Yes – thanks for the feedback. Do you have that one family recipe that gets handed down, the next generation makes it, “but not the way grandma made it…”? 🙂
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I follow my grandmother’s recipes to the letter, so so far I’m safe! 🙂
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Wikipedia and others talk about a quoit as being a flat round of iron, rope, etc for a throwing game like horseshoes. I bet the fried version resembles one of those, particularly hanging on the angled stick.
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I think you’re probably right! Especially because you thread them over a stick once fried. Like a doughnut, only different. Thanks for stopping by!
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