Traditional Newfoundland Moose And Brewis Food

TRADITIONAL NEWFOUNDLAND FISH & BREWIS

Steps:

• 1 - Soak over night in separate bowls your salt cod fish and hard bread, drain water from both before adding to saucepan. 2 - In a medium saucepan add water and start the boil on your potatoes about 15 minutes or fork tender, in a frying pan start frying your pieces of fat pork, butter or fatty bacon. When your fat pork starts to fry add your chopped onions continue frying until golden brown. 3 - In another saucepan add water and start your salt cod fish boiling for 10 to 15 minutes, then when your potatoes have boiled remove them from the pot and scoop into a bowl keeping the water for hard bread. 4 - Before adding soaked hard bread to the potato water, drain water from the soaked hard bread, then add hard bread to potato hot water and turn off the heat keep soaked hard bread in HOT water for 5 to 15 minutes or until ready to use. 5- Only use boneless salt cod, when salt cod fish have cooked remove from saucepan and flake apart, now this is when you start to add everything together, potatoes, fish, hard bread, fried onions and fat pork or bacon, salt and pepper to taste, fold everything together then serve. This is just a quick recipe for making fish and Brewis. In Newfoundland and Labrador on Christmas Eve, most everyone made this on Christmas Eve. This was a old tradition that have been forgotten over our generations, hopefully we can keep it alive by making this dish our house old favourite.

TRADITIONAL NEWFOUNDLAND MOOSE AND BREWIS

Steps:

• 1. Cut your moose steak in small pieces, toss them is 1 tbsp of flour until all coated. 2. Preheat your frying pan to medium heat and add butter, olive oil and fat pork, fry until your fat pork is part crispy. 3. After add your moose pieces and start to fry, then add all your spices continue frying until it starts to golden brown, stirring occasionally. Lower heat if fat port starts to smoke. 4. Then add your chopped onion let fry until transparent. Cooking time on this step is about 20 minutes. 5. Then add your sauces and beef broth, transfer your meat mixture over to a roaster with cover, then place in a preheated oven of 350° for 1 1/2 to 2 hours depending on your oven it may be tender enough to remove from oven at this time, checking half way through add more beef broth if it starts to dry. 6. In a small saucepan add your soaked hard bread with two cups of warm water, place on a low heat let warm for about ten minutes, then remove from heat drain water off, keep covered until you are ready to serve. 7. When moose have cooked remove from heat, start plating in a medium plate put a scoop of cooked hard bread then a big helping of your cooked moose with the juice and onions etc, over the top of your hard bread. "You also can cook potatoes to have on the side if you like this will be optional "

FISH AND BREWIS

Steps:

• Soak hard bread overnight in cold water Soak cod overnight in large pot of water as well.
• In the morning, change water on cod again.
• When ready to eat, place potatoes in the same pot as the cod and simmer gently until cooked (about 20-30 minutes) Remove from heat and drain.
• Heat hard bread slowly until it comes to a boil and drain.
• There are two toppings with Fish and Brewis, Drawn butter and Scrunchins Drawn Butter Melt butter Add onions and fry until soft Add Water, bring to a boil and then add either flour or cornstarch to thicken.
• Scrunchins Place salt pork in frying pan.
• Heat over medium heat until grease is drawn from the salt pork.
• Add onions and then cook until tender.