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The Center of Camp => Camping Gear and Campfire Cooking => Topic started by: jbullard1 on April 16, 2009, 04:17:55 PM

Title: Recpies And Cooking Pre 1900
Post by: jbullard1 on April 16, 2009, 04:17:55 PM

OK here I go again:
 I would like some info and recipes on food in rural areas dated before 1900
An example is cooking biscuits or a loaf of bread in 1820 in a dutch oven or what would have been available to a settler.
Info on spices available, cooking techniques, pots and pans and procedures.
Drying and preserving meat game and fish in the area

Basically what I am looking for is survival food available, in the event of a MAJOR Worldwide disaster.
I want to compile a loose leaf book with such foods and equipment that We could have at our disposal in such an event
I have no wish to make a profit from this and will either e-mail free or print out and mail this info for cost of supplies to anyone that wants it.
What do you think?

I think it would be nice to know some of these things just in case

Jerry

Let me also add a request that you include local nuts, fruits and veggies that  are available in the wild not just cultivated ones

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Post by: Riley/MN on April 16, 2009, 05:59:11 PM

Got lotsa local nuts here....A few fruits and some veggies, too...






Sorry, I'll go to my corner now...

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Post by: Three Hawks on April 16, 2009, 06:27:41 PM

I think you should go through the depression and into WWII.  My parents to a lesser extent and my grandparents, especially were not city people and lived very like in the late 1800's especially as far as food went.  The grew most of their own veggies, raised their own meat and traded for or bought only what they couldn't make.

Even as a kid in W. So. Dak. in the early 50's we hunted and fished for a large portion of our food.  We also had a HUGE vegetable garden.  Mom and Grandma canned almost everything we ate during the winter.  I remember picking berries and crab apples in the Summer and Fall.  They canned those, too.  There are few things as good as Crab Apple pickles, Currant and Choke Cherry jam.  

When we moved to Seattle in the mid 50's,  Mom thought we'd landed in Heaven.  There was a vacant lot with a burned out house on it next door, and the entire property was overgrown with blackberries, rhubarb, apple and pear trees,  and a dozen other volunteer garden veggies.  Us kids were tasked with clearing paths, hoeing and straightening up the mess next door.  Dad turned over a garden in our yard too. It had to have been about 30 x 40 feet.  All done the old fashioned way, by hand.

The property next door was owned by the folks we rented from and all that work was deducted from our rent.  Harvesting the fruits and veggies was pure gravy.  That and the tangled mess next door drove mom nuts.   You all know the old saying:  "If momma ain't happy, nobody ain't happy."

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Post by: ridjrunr on April 16, 2009, 09:15:37 PM

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Threehawks says;"There are few things as good as Crab Apple pickles, Currant and Choke Cherry jam."

Threehawks,no one ever talks about chokecherries :cry: .

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Post by: snake eyes on April 17, 2009, 07:54:10 AM

Quote from: "Riley/MN"

Got lotsa local nuts here....A few fruits and some veggies, too...
Sorry, I'll go to my corner now...

Riley,
      Damn, we must be neighbors :lol:  :lol:
snake-eyes

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Post by: Riley/MN on April 17, 2009, 08:09:20 AM

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Guess we will go to the corner together

 :lol

Quote from: "ridjrunr"

Threehawks,no one ever talks about chokecherries :happy

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Post by: Minnesota Mike on April 17, 2009, 12:35:11 PM

A good book to check out is 'The Buckskinner's Cook Book' by James Hanson and Kathryn Wilson.

Covers a lot of different areas and good info along with the recioies and such.

r/
MM