Canned, cooked hominy is a modern convenience in this version of the Expedition rations of "lyed corn and greece.” Noted cookbook author Edna Lewis has written that cooked hominy reminds her of small dumplings.

The Quakers receive credit for inventing lemon custard in the late 1700s. Philadelphian Elizabeth Coane Goodfellow, a pastry chef, businesswoman, and cooking school founder, who arrived in Philadelphia in 1806, took lemon custard to another level when she invented lemon meringue pie. Perhaps Lewis sampled his first slice of pie during his return visit in the spring and summer of 1807.