Catawba Sweet Potato Cakes
Sweet potato cakes remain among the foods associated with Catawba cooking, combining mashed sweet potatoes with a few simple ingredients before being browned on a hot griddle.
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Wild Onions and Scrambled Eggs
Among the Chickasaw, and other Southeastern Indigenous peoples, gathering wild onions and cooking them with eggs held and important place in their food traditions.
Muskogee (Creek) Sofkee
Sofkee, known by several related names among Indigenous peoples of the Southeast, is a traditional corn drink or thin porridge especially associated with the Muscogee and Seminole.
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