Caldwell County MO Archives History .....WHISKEY STEW AND OTHER WHISKEY FOODS 
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	WHISKEY STEW AND OTHER WHISKEY FOODS
	Narrator:  John Ferguson, 81, Iberia, Mo.

     A few years ago when the interviewer taught at Iberia Junior College, she 
met old John Ferguson, of the village old timers, with a stone jug of 
vinegar.  She joked Mr. Ferguson, who at the time was state commander of the 
G.A.R. on carrying a jug of moonshine liquor.  While denying the charge, he 
said that same jug had carried many a gallon of whiskey in the early days of 
Iberia (60s and 70s), both for drinking in a sensible way, and for cooking 
purposes.  I looked amazed at the last statement.
     To begin, whiskey then was very cheap, could be used like vinegar.  Every 
morning before breakfast, there was a whiskey toddy, made for the family, two 
spoonfuls around, of whiskey, hot water and sugar.  Egg shake was make with 
raw egg beaten and whiskey poured on top.  There were whiskied cherries or 
brandied cherries when whiskey was used as vinegar to pickle cherries or even 
peaches or crab apples.  Whiskey might be added as a flavor to the sauce to 
common bread pudding.
     But the finest "cooking receipt" of all was whiskey stew, a thing rarely 
heard of today in the era of high priced good liquor and low priced poison 
mountain dew.  Of course, if a person would make a hog of himself on such 
delicacies, he'd get tipsy on them, for they were too rich for your blood if 
gulped down.  He had forgotten the exact "receipt", but it was whiskey, sugar 
and spices boiled down to a jelly and eaten with a spoon for dessert. 

Interviewer's note:  In my childhood, my father, of southern extraction, made 
brandied cherries in a jug, and it made a concoction tasting of cherries and 
brandy. 


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