Recipe: Northwest Style Dried Berry Punch

My whole family is still recovering from bouts with the flu, during which I discovered this really easy and delicious punch!  I served it hot, but it can easily be served cold.  It comes from a little known native cookbook by Carol Batdorf entitled Northwest Native Harvest and features all manner of Coast Salish recipes.  

Large handful of dried berries of any sort (I used regular and golden raisins)
Boiling water
Honey to sweeten (if you can get it, fireweed honey is great from the region!)

"Drop a handful of dried berries into of pot of boiling water.  Any kind or combination of berries will do.  Allow the berries to simmer for half an hour.  Strain this juice into another pot.  Add the honey and heat just enough to blend the flavors.  Drink it hot or allow it to cool.  Stir the cooled to keep the honey in solution."

Note:  I used a teapot, instead of a second pot and covered it with a tea cozy.  It was good with the local gallberry honey!  If you like, float a thin slice of you favorite citrus on top.

Books Featuring Native Dishes

The Great Salsa Book

Mark Miller

Ten Speed Press, 1994

Chili Madness

Jane Butel

Workman Publishing, 1980

The Book Of Chowder

Richard J. Hooker

The Harvard Common Press, 1978

The Steaklover's Companion

Frederick J. Simon, photographs by Lois Ellen Frank (Kiowa)

Harper Collins, 1997

[The book is divided into regional sections, with many that qualify as modern Native recipes, loads of native ingredients.]

50 Chowders

Jasper White

Scribner, 2000

Books On Native Food For Children

Native American Gardening:  Stories, Projects And Recipes For Families

Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)

Fulcrum Publishing, 1996

(Has Recipes)

Food & Feasts With The Aztecs

Imogen Dawson (Choctaw)

New Discovery Books, 1995

(Has Recipes)

Food And Recipes Of The Native Americans

George Erdosh

Rosen Publishing Group, 1997

American Indian Cooking Before 1500

Mary Gunderson

Blue Earth Books, 2001

(Has Recipes, please note that for convenience, some introduced ingredients such as Cumin.  E. Barrie Kavasch of native food fame was a consultant.)

American Indian Foods
Jay Miller
Grolier Publishing, 1996

Ininatig's Gift Of Sugar

Laura Waterman Wittstock (Stockbridge-Munsee/Seneca)

Lerner Publications Co., 1993

El Gusto Del Mercado Mexicana (A Taste Of The Mexican Market)

Written & Illustrated by:  Nancy Maria Grande Tabor

Charlesbridge, 1996

(Bilingual, Espanol and English)

Corn Is Maize:  The Gift Of The Indians

Aliki

Harper Collins, 1976

Cookbooks Based On Native Ingredient

[Again work in progress]

The Green Chile Bible

Compiled and Edited by The Albuquerque Tribune

Clear Light Publishers, 1994

The Great Sunflower Book

Barbara Flores, photography by Lois Ellen Frank (Kiowa)

Ten Speed Press, 1997

Tasty Taters:  Potato Cookbook

Compiled & Edited By Judith Bosley

L.E.B. Inc., 1989

The Great Chile Book

Mark Miller, photography by Lois Ellen Frank (Kiowa)

Ten Speed Press, 1991

Creepy Crawly Cuisine

Julieta Ramos-Elorduy, Ph.D.

Park Street Press, 1998

(Large number of Aztec recipes and some Maya as well)

Chile Peppers

Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Beth Hanson--Guest Editor

Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, Inc., 1999

Nuts And Seeds

Rodale Press Editors, Compiled and Prepared by Joanne Moyer

Rodale Press, 1973

(Large amount of information about the nuts and seeds of the Americas)

Just Naturally Sweet:  Honey, Molasses, Sorghum, Maple Syrup

Patricia B. Mitchell

Self-Published, 1993 (first published in 1990)

The Miniature Book Of Tomatoes

Compiled By Jane Donovan

Crescent Books (New York)/Salamander Books Ltd., (UK), 1991

Partial List Of Mexican Cookbooks

[work in progress]

This is a partial list because there are literally hundreds of Mexican cookbooks out there!  I am attempting to limit myself to the ones that contain at least a few actual aboriginal recipes from various Mexican native groups.

Food From My Heart:  Cuisines Of Mexico Remembered and Reimagined

Zarela Martinez (Mestizo, Northern Mexico)

MacMillan, 1992

The Cuisines Of Mexico
Diana Kennedy
Harper & Row, 1986 (1972 original publishing date)

The Complete Book Of Mexican Cooking

Elisabeth Lambert Ortiz (adopted Nahua, was married to a man of Aztec descent.)

Ballantine Books, 1967 (first published in 1965)

Mexican Family Favorite Cook Book

Maria Teresa Bermudez

Golden West Publishers, 1998 (first published in 1983)

Sunset Mexican Cookbook
From The Editors Of Sunset Books And Sunset Magazine
Lane Publishing, Co., 1990 (first published in 1969)

Arizona Cookbook:  Indian, Mexican, Western

Compiled by Al Fischer & Mildred Fischer

Golden West Cookbooks, 1993

A Little Mexican Cookbook

Carolyn Denhel

Chronicle Books, 1991

Step By Step Mexican Cooking

Christine Barrett

Greenwich Editions, 1999

Sunday's At Moosewood Resturant

The Moosewood Collective

Simon & Schuster, Inc. 1990

(1 section on Mexico, largely vegetarian, along with sections on 17 other regions.)

Tequila
Edited By Alberto Ruy-Sanchez & Margarita de Orellana
Smithsonian Books, 2004
[Actual recipes, not just cocktail recipes]

New World Regional

Another Work In Progress!

False Tongues And Sunday Bread:  A Guatemalan And Mayan Cookbook

Copeland Marks

M. Evans and Company, Inc., 1985

(This also includes a number of yummy recipes from the Garifuna that mostly feature coconut in both savory and sweet forms--including Coconut Tortillas)

St. Croix Food & Wine Experience:  A Culinary Guide To The Island

Jane Watkins with Steve Bennett & Katherine Pugliese

J. Watkins Publishing, 2011

Southwest Indian Cookbook:  Pueblo & Navajo Images, Quote & Recipes

Marcia Keegan

Clear Light Publishers, 1996 (first published in 1986)

Arizona Cookbook

Compiled By Al Fischer & Mildred Fischer

Golden West Cookbooks. 1983

Fiestas For Four Seasons:  Southwest Entertaining

Jane Butel

Clear Light Publishers, 1998

[Has several Native southwest and Mexican recipes, along with Tex-Mex and other southwestern specialities.] 

Northwest Native Harvests

Carol Batdorf (adopted Lummi)

Hancock House, 1990

(Compendium of Coast Salish recipes)

Kokopelli's Cook Book:  Authentic Recipes Of The Southwest

James & Carol Cunkle

Golden West Publishers, 2005 (first published in 1997)

Sundays At Moosewood Restaurant

The Moosewood Collective

Fireside Simon & Schuster, 1990

Sections on:  The Caribbean, Chile, Mexico, New England & Southern

   US (in addition to 13 other regions from around the world)

American Indian Cooking:  Recipes From The Southwest

Carolyn Niethammer

University Of Nebraska Press, 1999 (first published 1974)

Cuba Cocina

Joyce Lafray

Harper Collins, 1994

Tex-Mex Cookbook

Jane Butel

Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1980

List Of Native American Cookbooks

Note:  This is a work in progress, so bear with me!  I just didn't want to wait to put it up.

Enduring Harvests

E. Barrie Kavasch (Chickamauga Cherokee/Powhatan/Muskogee Creek/

    Scotch-Irish/English/German)

The Globe Pequot Press, 1995

Pueblo Indian Cookbook

Compiled and Edited by Phyllis Hughes

Museum of New Mexico Press, 1977 (first published in 1972)

Native American Gardening
Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac (Abenaki)
Fulcrum Publishing, 1996

Hopi Cookery

Juanita Tiger Kavena (Muskogee Creek, married into the Hopi)

The University Of Arizona Press, 1992

Fixin' Food:  Ch'iyáán Al'i
Recipes For Native American Foods
Holbrook Seventh-day Adventist Indian School, 1993

American Indian Cooking

Carolyn Niethammer

University Of Nebraska Press, 1999 (first published in 1974)

Southwest Indian Cookbook:  Pueblo & Navajo Images, Quotes & Recipes

Marcia Keegan

Clear Light Publishers, 1996 (first published in 1987)

False Tongues And Sunday Bread:  A Guatemalan And Mayan 

Copeland Marks

M. Evans And Company, Inc., 1985

Pow Wow Chow

A Collection Of Recipes From Families Of The Five Civilized Tribes

Five Civilized Tribes Museum, 1984

Kokopelli's Cook Book

James & Carol Cunkle

Golden West Publishers, 2005 (first printed in 1997)

Arizona Cookbook:  Indian, Mexican, Western

Compiled by Al Fischer & Mildred Fischer

Golden West Cookbook, 1993

Wilderness Cookery

Brad Angier

Stackpole Books, 1970 (first published in 1961)

[Lots of Canadian native recipes.]

The Sunset Farms Cookbook

Rubye Alley Bumgarner

John F. Blair, 1980

[Large number of native recipes, mostly Cherokee]