We bought shrimp for the fajitas at a shop where they had just come in.
Then, back to the campground. We biked around the perimeter of the island, about 6 miles, stopping for a drink at the wharf of the old glamorous hotel. It was built in the early 1900s and is surrounded by mansions (called cottages) where JP Morgan and others had vacation homes. The hotel was built to house the millionaires' guests. It is still quite posh.
For dinner, we cooked some of the shrimp for shrimp cocktail and sautéed the rest along with a lot of veg for fajitas. We listened to Prairie Home Companion over dinner, a Saturday night ritual for us.
Here's what I found out about the stew!
ReplyDeleteBrunswick County, Virginia and the town of Brunswick, Georgia both claim to be the origin of the stew. A plaque on an old iron pot in Brunswick, Georgia, says the first Brunswick stew was made in it on July 2, 1898, on nearby St. Simons Island. A competing story claims a Virginia state legislator's chef invented the recipe in 1828 on a hunting expedition. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, in her Cross Creek Cookery (1942), wrote that the stew, said to have been one of Queen Victoria's favorites, may have come from the original Brunswick: Braunschweig, Germany.
In areas where Brunswick stew is prepared and sold at fundraising, it is made in large iron pots over open flame or gas. The stew is usually allowed to simmer and cook for long periods of time. This may be attributed to the older tradition of putting game meats into the stew, which might require a longer cooking time to ensure that the meats were tender.