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Green Mountain Whittlin's/Green Mountain Folklore Society VOL LII, 48: dad growing up hunting in Windsor county, hunting rituals but never brought one home because Ct. wife couldn't handle a dead deer

1902 - St. J. Woman's Literary Club. Raw potato yeast, scratch mayo, pork chowder, graham muffins, hunter's method of cooking fowl (leave feathers on, salt interior, wrap in brown paper and put in ashes for 1 hour, feathers and skin will fall off),…

Deer hanging upside down surrounded by about twenty hunters. Many of the hunters are holding rifles. Small tent is set up in the background.

interviews with Ray Keyser of Proctor, one-term Vt gov - mostly hunting as a social activity/tradition, no food prep included

116-122 - "Adjustment to Frontier Conditions" chapter includes good food/agriculture details of late 1770s settlers/homesteaders. Detail on corn, dariy cows, hogs, venison, bear, plumping mills to grind corn before grist mills, vegetable gardens,…

The bulk of the hunting materials focus on deer hunting in Vermont and Maine with additional interviews on moose, bear, turkey and other game birds. The interviews include information on habitat, strategy, and technique, traditional knowledge, social…

2008 - Recipes and food lore from Native Abenaki Hawk clan in Brownington with intro and memories/anecdotes from chief Lone Cloud. Includes details on acorn meal, wild sage bread, frog's legs, moose, muskrat, pigeon, fiddlehead fern stew, Emptyin's…

1957 - starts after deer hunted with dressing the kill, then hanging and butchering, and recipes at end. Input from Marlboro College prof of forestry.

ch 8 - "Merinos, Morgans, Maple Syrup and Milk" (64-68) covers phases in Vt agriculture from beef to sheep to dairy. Ch 18 "Hunting" (127-131) covers deer, small game, waterfowl. Fishing (132-134) is a brief overview with some notes on best…