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From: katheve <>
Subject: Fish and Brewis
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 20:29:31 -0500

I loved Brewis, as a child, but without the fish. We would sometimes
have it for breakfast with lots of butter and brown sugar.

Brewis
A hard tack, hard bread or hard biscuit that has been soaked overnight
and brought to a boil. It is usually eaten with salt or fresh fish and
served with pork scrunchions. It is also good with bacon and eggs, a
poached egg or beefsteak and gravy. Hard biscuit was used as a bread
substitute when men were at sea or away from home in the woods for a
long time. Children like it with butter and sugar or molasses.
Before being put to soak the bread is usually broken and one story says
that the cookee on a schooner would be told to break up the bread or
"Bruise the bread", hence the name bruise or brewis.
Newfoundland families in all income brackets, and in all geographical
locations served fish and brewis with varying frequency, especially for
Sunday morning breakfast.
Hard bread can be purchased in Newfoundland stores here on the mainland.

Enjoy! Kathleen

Ref: The Treasury of Nfld Dishes.

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