Pony Horse
Courtesy of Florida Memory Project
During the Great Depression one of FDR’s New Deal Program was the Works Project Administration (WPA). It hired unemployed writers. America Eats was one of research projects they worked on collecting local stories. For example, before the days of refrigeration, rural folks slaughtered hog's in large numbers during the winter months and created recipes from them. For example, a WPA document from circa 1940s Virginia describes a dish made from the liver of the hog called pony horse, “a mixture of hog’s liver, often with part of the lungs added, seasoned with pepper and sage, thickened with white cornmeal and baked….”
