Recipes for Mushers

                        Eskimo Ice Cream

                                 (Aqutaq of Today Recipe)

                           *Put some Crisco into a big bowl (depends on how much

                            you want to make.)

                                           * Whip up the Crisco with oil adding milk, water, and sugar.

                                            * If you are making fish aqutaq, alternate putting

                            deboned flaked fish.

                                            *  If you are putting mashed potatoes or bread crumbs,

                             add them with step #1.

                                             *  When the consistency is as sweet as you want, whip

                              in berries or anything you might want in the aqutaq.

                                    TRADITIONAL AQUTAQ WITH SNOW

                            * Fry unrendered chunks of seal oil until liquid.

                                  *  Add the reindeer fat into the hot oil until the fat melts.

                                  *  Pour the oil mixture into a big bowl.

                                  *  Start putting 2 - 3 cups of fresh powdery snow and whip up

                               and repeat until you have the right consistency.

                                  *  Add salmon berries, whip, then add blackberries.

                                                      YUPIK RECIPES

                               If you have eaten fry bread this recipe is similay.  Traditional

                               fried bread was made with a sour dough mixture and fried in hot seal

                                oil.

                                    Make a yeast dough and let it rise, then punch it down.

                                    Heat oil in a skillet or deep fryer - medium to medium high.

                                    Punch down the dough and form into balls.  Shape depending on

                                      how big you want each fry bread to be.

                                    Stretch each ball and make hole(s) in each one.

                                     Fry each side 3-4 minutes in hot oil until golden brown.

                                            REINDEER FOOD

                             (sometimes called "puppy chow")

                          This is a sweet treet made from Crispix cereal.  The preparation

                                time is about 10 minutes.  It makes 8-cups.

                                     Ingredients:

                                         1 cup Ghiradelli chocolate morsels or 6oz. Ghiradelli baking

                                 bar chopped.

                                          1/2 C. peanut butter

                                          1/2 C roasted peanuts (optional)

                                          6 C Crispix cereal

                                          1 C powdered sugar

                                In a large microwave bowl, melt the chocolate on high for one

                             minute.  Stir and heat an additional 30-seconds at high until melted.

                             Stir in peanut butter and peanuts.  Gently stir Crispix cereal into

                             the chocolate-peanut butter mixture until well coated.  Place

                              powdered sugar in a 2-gallon storage bag.  Add coated cereal to

                              the bag with the powdered sugar and close the bag.  Gently toss

                              the cereal mixture until coated.  Store in an airtight container in the

                               refrigerator.

                                                  MUSHER TRAIL SNACKS

                          Trail snacks need to be the type of food that can be frozen and

                             shipped ahead to wait for the musher at a checkpoint or kept on the

                              sled.

                                     Ingredients:

                                          peanut butter, powdered milk, coconut (shredded),

                                     chocolate chips, nuts (variety and optional) and raisins.

                                     Ditrections:

                                           Mix the peanut butter in a large bowl with enough powdered

                               milk to make the peanut butter workable with your hands.  Add

                                each of the other ingredients gradually.  Roll into balls.  A high

                               energy snack.