Alaska
4 dishes from Alaska, cooked the way the place cooks them.
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Sourdough Hotcakes
A starter let down with flour and milk overnight, then slackened with egg and butter and lifted at the last moment with baking soda — the hotcake Alaska built on the one pot a prospector could not afford to let freeze, and the reason the old hands were called sourdoughs.
- Total
- 8 hr 35 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 575 per serving
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Reindeer Sausage and Eggs
Smoked reindeer sausage sliced thick, browned until its fat runs, with onions softened in the same pan and eggs fried in what is left — the Anchorage breakfast plate, built on an animal that federal law treats as two different animals depending on who owns it.
- Total
- 25 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 555 per serving
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Salmon Chowder
Salt pork, onion and potatoes under canned salmon, thickened with broken crackers and finished with scalded milk off the heat — the method the Alaska salmon packers printed in their own recipe pamphlet in 1900, with the bones left in because federal law softens them.
- Total
- 1 hr
- Serves
- 6
- Calories
- 440 per serving
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Beer-Battered Halibut
Pacific halibut cut to a controlled inch, dusted, dipped in a cold lumpy lager batter and fried hard — the boat-town plate of Homer and Kodiak, built around the small charter fish that federal rules make the one most people actually bring home.
- Total
- 35 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 450 per serving