Food and recipes

The particularity of the Lower North Shore is that we don’t have bakeries, pastry shops or big restaurants. So, the population had no choice, but to learn to make all that stuff. The people need to know how to cook if they want good food. Each season, we have some principal recipes.

During summer, we eat a lot of seafood. Each person tries to have some lobster, crab, scallops and mussels. With these aliments, we can make seafood pizza, spaghetti, lasagna and the coquille Saint-Jacques. Also, one of our main summer meals is salt beef boiled with vegetables. We eat some fish too, like cod and salmon, and we have some recipes with fish.

In the winter, we eat more wild meat, like moose, partridges, rabbit and even small prey. We can make some pizza with steak or mince meat. We make a lot of meal in the oven with small and big prey. Sometimes, we eat seafood that we kept frozen or vacuum sealed.

But during the fall and spring, we don’t really have main meal, because the seasons are not very long. We eat mostly the meal closest to the next season.

Hélène

In Tête-à-la-Baleine, we have many dessert recipes. We make our desserts with many little berries that we found around the place. We can find these berries in the islands or in the plains. We use red berries, black berries, blueberries, pembina, chicoutai (bakeaples) and raspberries. The desserts we made are pies (with blueberries, blackberries, redberries and all the berries I named). We make cakes too, like chocolate cakes, angel cakes, black forest cakes, Strawberry and chocolate cakes, etc. And, of course, we have other desserts like chicoutai squares, blackberry squares and redberries pudding. We make sugar pies too, and a many of other desserts. And, of course, we have fudge and old fashion pancakes.  And now, let me introduce you to some recipes.

Philippe

Chocolate cake:

-1 chocolate cake preparation.

-3 eggs

- 540 ml Vashon strawberry pie filling

-Mix all
-Cook at slow fire to 250 degrees

Garnish :

-1 cup of sugar
-1/2 cup of 35% cream
-5 table spoon of butter
Boil all in 3 minutes

Get out of the fire and add on 1 Hershey chocolate chip spoon.

 Old fashion pancake:

-2 cup of flour

- 2 magic backing powder spoon

-3 sugar table spoon
-2 eggs
-Water until smooth.