22. Recipes from Canada

The origins of Canadian cookery are mostly to be found in Britain and in France. This is certainly true of the Maritime Provinces, although even there one finds, for example, German culinary traditions maintained as well. The local cookery book at Lunenburg is called Dutch Oven, Dutch being a corruption of Deutsch; a corruption in which the German families who established this neat town seem to have acquiesced, perhaps despairing of the linguistic ability of their British neighbours.

The pretty name Acadian is applied to that region in the Maritimes which was originally settled by the French, and is used also of their cookery. Despite the expulsion of these original settlers by the British, French cookery has survived in the area and is here exemplified by a recipe for Rappie pie. It is, however, in the Province of Quebec that French influences in the kitchen are most noticeable; and I give two recipes from that region.