Our cooking demonstrations include open fire baking and iron kettle cooking, however it's usually our demonstration of hot-stone roasting and boiling that's most popular. In boiling, we use a wooden trough filled with maple syrup diluted in water (to simulate maple sap) and we drop hot rocks into the liquid until it's rapidly boiling. The steam is more than a sight, as it also carries a sweet maple smell - a pleasant surprise for spectators when the steam floats in their direction. When possible, we like to show event guests how hot the liquid is by lowering raw buffalo meat in, which will cook in less than a minute (many times this cooked meat is passed out to those who would like to try the very historic Native taste of meat flavored with maple sugar). For roasting, we cook meats, fish, and/or vegetables on beds of hot rocks. Visitors can watch meat sizzle and corn in the husk brown, and try a bit of food cooked on nothing but a hot rock. See the hot stone cooking process in the photos below.
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