Civil War recipes - how to make do with little...

[Leah]

http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/cookbook.htm

http://www.historypoint.org/columns2.asp?c..._type=hpfeature

http://www.civilwarhome.com/links10.htm

http://www.santacentral.com/recipes/991115.html

http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/civwar/food.html

Quote: Here are some examples:

Meat (at least $20 for one meal): Domestic animals, crows, frogs, locusts, snails, snakes and worms

Coffee: Okra seeds that were browned, dried sweet potatoes or carrots, roasted acorns, wheat berries

Tea: Herbs, sumac berries, sassafras roots, raspberry, blackberry, huckleberry and holly leaves

Champagne: Water and corn and molasses, fermented in an old barrel

Milk or cream: Beat an egg white to a froth and add a small lump of butter, mix well

Sugar: Molasses, sorghum, dried, ground figs, honey, watermelon syrup

Vinegar (apple): molasses, honey, beets, figs, persimmon, may-apples and sorghum

Flour: Rice, rice flour, cornmeal, and rye flour

Salt: Boiled sea water, or taking dirt from the smokehouse, adding water and boiling it. Skim off the scum on the top and drop in cold water, and the salt sinks to the bottom. The impurities could be boiled off. Wood ashes or gunpowder could substitute for salt as a seasoning.:unquote

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http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,196,156184-255203,00.html (Idiot's Delight recipe)

[JCK88]

Leah, thanks for those links! You can see from my siggy I dressed up especially for those links! LOL Seriously...good info.

[Mother]

Those are great links, Leah. I'll be reading and copying forever.

 

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