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HIDATSA STUFFED SUGAR PUMPKIN
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Serving Size : 6 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Meats Vegetables
Ethnic
Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1 Sugar pumpkin, 4-5 pounds
2 ts Salt
1/2 ts Dry mustard
2 tb Rendered fat
1 lb Ground buffalo, venison or
-beef
1 Medium onion, chopped
1 c Cooked wild rice
3 Eggs, beaten
1 t Crushed, dried sage
1/4 ts Pepper
Preheat oven to 350 deg F. Cut the top off the
pumpkin and remove strings and seeds. Reserve seeds
for another use. Prick the cavity with a fork and rub
with 1 teaspoon salt and the mustard. Heat fat in a
large skillet, add meat and onion and saute over
medium-high heat until browned. Off the heat, stir in
wild rice, eggs, remaining salt, sage and pepper.
Stuff pumpkin with the meat mixture. Place 1/2"
water in the bottom of a shallow baking pan. Put
pumpkin in the pan and bake for 1 1/2 hours, or until
tender. Add more water to the pan as neccessary to
avoid sticking.
To serve, cut pumpkin into wedges, giving each
person pumpkin and stuffing.
Source: Spirit of the Harvest ... from a file of Carl
Berger
Hidatsa origin
From: Dale Shipp Date: 04-26-96
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