I read this SO long ago...

All I remember was that she was only referred to as "Bird Woman" in the story (which was her name, in fact) and that the men had caught some animal and were cooking it, but it smelled inexplicably horrible while it was roasting, and the only man hungry enough to try it spat it out. Enter Bird Woman, who puts her knowledge to work and turns it into a good meal - but only after quite a while, I think. (She may have used local plants.) The story ended by saying that the problem was solved so well, the men even gnawed the bones as best they could.

Has anyone heard this?



Lenona.

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> I read this SO long ago...
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> All I remember was that she was only referred to as "Bird Woman" in the story (which was her name, in fact) and that the men had caught some animal and were cooking it, but it smelled inexplicably horrible while it was roasting, and the only man hungry enough to try it spat it out. Enter Bird Woman, who puts her knowledge to work and turns it into a good meal - but only after quite a while, I think. (She may have used local plants.) The story ended by saying that the problem was solved so well, the men even gnawed the bones as best they could.
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> Has anyone heard this?
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> Lenona.
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I guess she marinated it with a sack of jawea.

On Tuesday, October 16, 2018 at 6:11:48 PM UTC-5, Hank Rogers wrote:
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> > I read this SO long ago...
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> > All I remember was that she was only referred to as "Bird Woman" in the story (which was her name, in fact) and that the men had caught some animal and were cooking it, but it smelled inexplicably horrible while it was roasting, and the only man hungry enough to try it spat it out. Enter Bird Woman, who puts her knowledge to work and turns it into a good meal - but only after quite a while, I think. (She may have used local plants.) The story ended by saying that the problem was solved so well, the men even gnawed the bones as best they could.
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> > Has anyone heard this?
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> I guess she marinated it with a sack of jawea.
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HAHAHAHAHAAAAAA, go stand in the corner!!

Well, I may have solved part of puzzle anyway. In a cookbook I found about cooking wild game (from Vermont), the author said that wild duck, if it eats certain foods all its life, often smells, when cooking, "like an open sewer."

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> Well, I may have solved part of puzzle anyway. In a cookbook I found
> about cooking wild game (from Vermont), the author said that wild
> duck, if it eats certain foods all its life, often smells, when
> cooking, "like an open sewer."

And the relation to Sacajawea?

In article >,
> wrote:

> Well, I may have solved part of puzzle anyway. In a cookbook I found about
> cooking wild game (from Vermont), the author said that wild duck, if it eats
> certain foods all its life, often smells, when cooking, "like an open sewer."

Puddle ducks taste better than diving ducks to me. People rave about
canvasback (a diver), but I like mallards, pintail, gadwalls, teal,
spoonies and widgeon better (all puddle ducks). Divers go deeper
underwater and include fish in their diet. Puddlers mainly eat pond
weed and occasional bugs.
Puddle ducks are easier to pick too. I've shot one sea duck way back
when and don't remember what it tasted like. I'll almost guarantee it
tasted less good than a puddler.
Here's a old recipe that I have always used. Stuff a picked and gutted
duck with chunks of apple and celery, salt and pepper, wrap in foil,
and are you ready for this? Roast at 300F for three hours. To people
unused to the smell of wild duck cooking, whether they like it varies.
I'm used to it.
Wild duck ain't like tame duck. Temp, time and method would be a crime
with farm raised duck.

leo

cshenk wrote:
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>> Well, I may have solved part of puzzle anyway. In a cookbook I found
>> about cooking wild game (from Vermont), the author said that wild
>> duck, if it eats certain foods all its life, often smells, when
>> cooking, "like an open sewer."
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> And the relation to Sacajawea?
>

They smell like a sack of jawea?

The book is called "Vermont Wildfoods Cookbook."

The "smelly" ducks feed in salt-water areas, on fish, clams and mussels.

As it happens, I misspelled her name - it's Sacagawea.

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> As it happens, I misspelled her name - it's Sacagawea.
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I guess Sakakawea and Sacajawea must have been cousins or something.