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Skriven 2011-07-17 06:04:00 av Dave Drum (52306.cooking)
Ärende: GAME 631
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      Title: How To Cook A Whale Found Dead
 Categories: Seafood
      Yield: 100 Servings
 
      1    Whale
 
  This is my 1995 translation of the George Hunt 1914
  translation of a old Kwakuitl recipe given by Elie Hunt in
  the Kwakuitl language
  
  "Most importantly, you cannot eat it all by yourself! So the
  first step is to call for a party and invite all your
  friends, relatives, and local dignitaries.
  
  A special occasion, like the finding of a whale, calls for
  the use of ceremonial names. Though a hunter, a man, has
  found the whale, preparing food is women's work, and
  therefore the daughter of the hunter has the rights to
  prepare the whale. She is given the ceremonial name,
  Place-of-cutting-Blubber. Note that it is the daughter who
  has the rights, not the wife(s), due to the family rights in
  a matrilineal society.
  
  Once everybody is ready, you bring tools, and the hunter who
  found the whale leads everybody in their canoes to the spot
  where he found it. The father of the hunter has the honor of
  speaking for the daughter of the hunter to "make a toast"
  for the occasion. It is customary to first declare how
  wonderful the whale is, being full of delicious blubber,
  etc. Then you should give the choicest piece (the dorsal
  fin) to the ranking dignitary, who is typically the chief of
  the village.
  
  Everybody else gets an equal size piece of the whale
  according to the order of their rank. The first piece starts
  at the whale neck, and they work from the top down and from
  the head to the tail. Generally the pieces are cut about a
  fathom (6 feet) in width. After the ceremonial pieces are
  given out, the women go to work to gather the remaining fat
  from the whale. The last step is cut off a piece of the tail
  of the whale.
  
  When this is done, the pieces are loaded in the canoes, and
  everybody goes home to do the remainder of the preparation.
  The hunks of blubber are split into strips four fingers
  thick (two inches). These pieces are then cut into half inch
  strips.
  
  A kettle of water is set to boil on the beach, and the
  strips are boiled to render the oil. The oil is ladled off
  and stored in watertight storage boxes. Whale oil is best
  stored in the corner of your house.
  
  Then, you take cedar bark, and split it into long strips.
  Poke holes in the middle of the boiled pieces of whale
  blubber, and thread them onto the long strips of bark. When
  finish these strings of blubber are now called
  "tied-in-the-middle".
  
  Dry these strips in the smoky rafters of your house for at
  least a month. When you want to eat some
  "tied-in-the-middle" take it down from the rafters, and boil
  it in a kettle until tender. This takes a lot of boiling. Be
  sure to eat it hot, because when it is cold, it is really
  tough. If you boil more than you can eat, you can dry it
  again, and reheat it later. This dish is called "eating
  boiled blubber tied in the middle", a real treat!"

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