Traditional Maine food?

[Maineah]

Originally Posted by Fort Lauderdale mermaid

OLD and dirty.

Old eh!!! Sepetember is coming quickly ya know darlin!!

[LenoreE]

Growing up, we would visit my grandparents and aunt in Sedgwick and Penobscot, Maine. One of the snacks they would offer us was stripped fish. What kind of fish was used to make stripped fish?

[American girl]

Originally Posted by LenoreE

Growing up, we would visit my grandparents and aunt in Sedgwick and Penobscot, Maine. One of the snacks they would offer us was stripped fish. What kind of fish was used to make stripped fish?

https://www.ellsworthamerican.com/li...ke-dried-fish/

We ate it often as children

[mainegrl2011]

My dad used cod--caught it and dried (slack-salted) it himself. I'm pretty sure he covered it with maybe cheesecloth to keep the cheesy results (below) from happening. I love it. What I see in stores now is labeled haddock. The store version is a few pieces stripped off the fish skin and put in a sandwich bag priced at about $5. It's a great snack or part of a meal... boiled potatoes, peas, and dried fish... yum yum

The resulting texture, taste, etc. of dried fish that has been visited by flies is called cheesy, I believe. Not my preference. Think about what flies do...

[Northern Maine Land Man]

We were not onthe coast. Supper was meat and potatoes with a vegetable in season.We had real butter once the war was over. We had margerine on toast during the war. It was like putting Crico on toast. It was awful. We didn't use it. We just put jam on toast.

Mom saved bacon fat for frying eggs etc.She saved left over Ralston, oat meal, Cream of wheat and a bran hot cereal (name escapes me). She would put the cereal in a large bean can and put t in the refrigerator. On nights with no meat she wouldtake a slice of the ceral and fry it in bacon fat. It was tasty and nutritious. We put maple syrup on it.