Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1883 — Indian Bread Like Mortar. [ARTICLE]

Indian Bread Like Mortar.

As a veritable curiosity, we have a sample of bread made and used by the full blood Indians of the Indian Territory. It resembles mortar in consistency, add is composed of pounded corn meal and beans and flavored with lye. A chunk brtought us ,by Mr. Robin-on is about half the size of an ear of corn, and**is wrapped and tied with corn shucks, and has been boiled in lye,- and is in a state of perfect preservation, having been put up last fall without salt. It is really a curiosity, and more so now that the modern way of cooking with a stove is in vogue with most of them.— Fort Smith, (Ark.)New Era. "TT"- - Look not mournfully into the past, it cannot come back again; wisely improve the present, it is thine; go forth to m*eet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.—Longfellow. j