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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
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
   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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