Coffee News and a Loyal Friend Civilian Man at Breakfast with Dog
Features
- Four piece set includes; sitting man dog chair and table with breakfast setting
- Approximately 2 tall
- All metal construction
- Hand painted and ready for display
This pup waits patiently for his master to finish his morning meal before he can enjoy some tasty scraps. On the menu is crusty bread bacon and sofkee. As today there were many different types of bread; some with cornmeal rye or buckwheat among the ingredients. Bread was thought to be unhealthy when warm so many waited until the next day before eating. The word bacon derives from various dialects including the Old French bacun and Old Teutonic backe which refers to the back. As late as the 16th century bacon simply meant pork and in antebellum America the term was used for any dry-cured meat. Lastly the Sofkee a Native American sour corn mixture and forerunner modern grits. Many recipes called for a combination of beans black-eyes peas wild onion and/or rice to make a hearty dish.
