FAMILY AT CARIBOU CHEEK MAKE LIVING
FROM NATURE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.'
Mr. and Mrs, Ben Hitchcock ,who live at
Caribou Creok, arc trying to got as much
of their living as possible from Alaska
products. They hnvo a very interesting
place built at Caribou Crook which includes
a green houso* Mr* Robert Kessler visited
there this summer and reported that they --
arc doing some very interesting experimen
ting there and have a very nico and com
fortable home.
Mrs. Hitchcock keeps in touch with the
local Extension Offico end gets informa
tion that might be of value in holpihg then
with their problems at'Caribou Creek, In
a recent letter to Mrs, Bernice Johnson
at the Extension Offico she writes about
their experiments with bear neat.
"When T gave you the recipe for corned
bear,'wo had not yet tried Smoking any
of it. But'soon after that, Ben built ourj
smoke house, We had some bear in brine
for eight days, which wo put into the,
smoke house, and smoked for about the same
period. Then wo tried frying seme of .it
like ham—and we promise you that it is a
delicious substitute for pork ham. Wo
think it might be hard to toll the differ
ence, There jras"one thing wrong with our
formula, however, which we.would advise
anyone else to correct—eight days in the
brine was too much. Three or at most four
days ’would have'be on better. We have to
parboil the ham as it is somewhat salty.
Incidentally; r;c have used both, black and
grizzly boar, both fresh and cured, and
they aro both delicious neats. We cer
tainly nould like to see you give some
publicity to the fact .that grizzly bear
neat-ig good eating. There is a current
Legend, even accepted among old sourdoughs,
that the meat is no good. Consequently,
nany grizzlies are slaughtered, and loft
bo spoil.w
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