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Hominy Grits

Ingredients

Procedure

5 cups water
1 cup hominy grits
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon honey, brown sugar, or maple syrup (optional)

Bring water to a rapid boil in a saucepan.
Gradually pour in the hominy grits and stir.
Add the butter and stir.
Cook for 20 minutes, or until the water is absorbed.

Grits may be sweetened with honey, brown sugar, maple syrup, or jelly. Grits can also be flavored with cheese, sunnyside up egg, or vegetarian sausage. Serve while hot.

Recipe adapted from Effigy Mounds National Monument.

Serves 8

Butternut Squash

Ingredients

Procedure

1 Butternut Squash
4 tablespoons Maple Syrup
4 tablespoons Butter
Cooking Spray

Spray the inside of a Dutch Oven and the underside of the lid with cooking spray.
Slice the butternut squash in half lengthwise.
Using a spoon, scoop out the seeds and discard them.
Place the squash halves in the dutch oven, cut side up. You may have to place the large end of one half next to the small end of the other to make them fit.
Slice the butter in to pats and place them on the squash halves.
Put the lid on and bake for 45 minutes at 350°F.
Remove the squashes from the dutch oven and drizzle maple syrup on them.

Serves 2-4

Hot Apple Cider

Ingredients

Procedure

1/2 gallon apple juice or unfermented apple cider
1/4 cup maple syrup
2 whole cloves
2 sticks cinnamon
2 allspice berries
1/2 orange peel
1/2 lemon peel

Pour the apple juice and maple syrup into a large pan. Place the cloves, cinnamon sticks, allspice, and citrus peelings on the center of a piece of cheesecloth. Bundle it up and tie it up with a piece of string. Place the bundle in the apple juice and cook for 5 to 10 minutes over moderate heat - do not let it boil. Turn off the heat (or turn it way down) and discard the spice bundle. Ladle the cider into mugs and if desired, put another cinnamon stick in each cup.

Serves 8 (8 oz servings)