How Philadelphia Pepper pot soup saved the Revolution
supposedly, it was served to the beleagured troops in Decembrt 1777 cheering them up.
pepper pot soup's origin in the Caribbean, but the Philly version has tripe.
Pepper pot is a Caribbean dish, and it may well be that slaves and freedmen brought a taste for spicy broth to Philadelphia. But Caribbean cuisine makes little use of tripe. The French and (ironically) the English are more partial to the cratered stomach lining of the cow, with its elastic texture and distinctive – not to say unpleasant – taste and smell, this last resembling ripe manure. (Readers who have yet to try the delicacy may now be suspecting it was yet another hardship to befall the Continental army.)
Nonetheless, pepper pot became as emblematic a Philly dish as cheesesteak, scrapple, hoagies and water ice. By 1811 the popular artist John Lewis Krimmel was exhibiting Pepper Pot: A Scene in the Philadelphia Market, in which a barefoot African American woman ladles out evidently popular stew
and the recipe (tripe and all) is at the UKG link.
headsup EvilBloggerLady.
actually, we eat tripe here in the Philippines, but usually in karekare:
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