Smoked Eel Soup with Hominy

This is a Pennsylvania Dutch version of a much less elaborate native American smoked eel and hominy porridge. The Lenni-Lenape who inhabited the Delaware River valley were particularly fond of stewed smoked eel during the winter. It is often mentioned in diaries of Moravian missionaries. Eel dishes are still popular in York County and the other Dutch counties along the western shores of the Susquehanna.