{"id":14799,"date":"2013-12-21T02:54:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T10:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=14799"},"modified":"2013-12-21T13:10:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T21:10:49","slug":"old-west-holiday-cooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/old-west-holiday-cooking\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-Ethnic Old West Holiday Cooking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sutsh.jpg\" width=\"649\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>Interested in Old West Holiday Cooking? My grandfather, who was a miner in the Sierra, had some multi-ethnic recipes. Not sure where he got these 19th Century gems but someone added more modern terms. Haven\u2019t tried these and give no guarantees but wish you luck with them. Happy Holidays.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/dining\/recipes\/gold-rush.html\">SEE Old West Recipes for these dishes<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>INDIAN BREAD<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>MEXICAN CHICKEN BALL SOUP<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>CHINESE ROAST DUCK (a favorite for Chinese miners on New Years Day)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>HANGTOWN FRY<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"imgs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/campck.jpg\" width=\"283\" height=\"236\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scenes in the Life of a Miner<\/strong> (published in 1853)<\/p>\n<p>Once more returned at close of day,<br \/>\nto a cheerless, dismal home,<br \/>\nHe vows, if he was back in Maine,<br \/>\nHe never more would roam.<\/p>\n<p>Now hunger makes his &#8220;bawley yearn&#8221;<br \/>\nFor &#8220;yams&#8221; or &#8220;Irish roots,&#8221;<br \/>\nBut these he looks in vein to find&#8211;<br \/>\nThen tries to fry his boots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C. MacDonald Interested in Old West Holiday Cooking? My grandfather, who was a miner in the Sierra, had some multi-ethnic recipes. Not sure where he got these 19th Century gems but someone added more modern terms. Haven\u2019t tried these and give no guarantees but wish you luck with them. Happy Holidays. SEE Old West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14799"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}