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    horwitze korsher foods

    I have been using Knorr kosher soup mix for some time. Now I buy frozen mix vegetables put them in my Dehydrator and dry them out. I use Kosher beef, cut it into 1/2” square's and put them in my Dehydrator and make beef jerky chunks. When I cook it up I throw in “telma” kosher beef flavor...
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    Cracker Knife

    Very nice looking knife. :thumbsup: Hay cracker, Do ya have a whip? :grin:
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    Pre-1840 Food Storage

    This is a good site for what I think your looking for. Pottery http://jas-townsend.com/index.php?cPath=47&osCsid=d5f274f617721cde21da51f936b85df2 Eating Equipment http://jas-townsend.com/index.php?cPath=23
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    PC folding table

    Unc your right, this is basicle what is in this link. 2 planks together and a saw horse. Simpul. http://www.bloodandsawdust.com/sca/campstuff.html
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    Annoyed

    I soak my nipple in warm water for a few min, then get a small wire [fishing wire] and run it through the nipple a few times, then blow through the nipple. Hold nipple up to a clear light, you should see right through it. If you can't see clean through the nipple or it looks fuzzy, run the wire...
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    PC folding table

    Knocking together a table & bench in the frontier would have been made from almost anything that was on hand. People moving west from the cost, would have had some basic knowledge of some carpentry to build a cabin and furnish it with basic tables & Benches. Trestle Tables & Benches...
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    heating a tent in winter

    A trick my Father told me he use to do when he was a kid. Dad was from the State of Washington, and it was his job to keep the wood burning stove going all night. After a good bed of hot coals were in the bottom of the stove he would place a stack of wet news paper. [5or6 I think] Then he...
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    4 in stovepipe

    Here is one place that has 4” stove pipe. http://www.hardwareandtools.com/Stove-Pipes-and-Fittings/ Here is a search for 4” stove pipe. http://www.bing.com/search?q=four+inch+Stove+pipe+&go=&qs=n&form=QBRE
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    heating a tent in winter

    As I said: “I had read” that the Natives living in Teepee would dig a fire pit in the center of there Teepee. Then dig a trench several feet beon the wall of there Teepee, then they would lay sticks tightly side by side. Then cover the stick trench with dirt making a sort of chimney to draw...
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    heating a tent in winter

    I had read that the Natives living in Teepee would dig a fire pit in the center of there Teepee. Then dig a trench several feet beon the wall of there Teepee, then they would lay sticks tightly side by side. Then cover the stick trench with dirt making a sort of chimney to draw the smoke out...
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    Fish recipe for Pilgrims?

    I dont remember where I had read this buy many years ago I had read a story where the Natives in the Eastern states would catch Salom, smoke it and store it for winter. "Land-locked salmon (Salmo salar m. sebago) live in a number of lakes in eastern North America and in Northern Europe, for...
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    Coffee or Tea?

    Hot chocolate was also a comon drink.
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    Fish recipe for Pilgrims?

    What kind of fish do you plan to cook? Is it whole fish or, is the fish Flayed? Here is my recipe for Smoke Salmon. Salmon flays, or flay whole Salmon. Cut Salmon flays up as wide as your hand. [This recipe is for 3lb of Salmon] 1 cup unsulphured Molasses 1 & 1/2 cup of brown sugar 1 Onion...
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    Cannon Competition

    I'll try this again, but with proper spelling. I hope. Are there any Competition Cannon shoots? In the same way there is with Black powder Muskets, & rifle Competition. Are there laws that don't allow shooting live rounds in Cannon? If I placed this in the wrong place please move it to the...
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    Fur bags, fur hats, and fur knife sheaths.

    Well, Tin & Sunk my hat took the same path as ya hair did. I couldent stop it, so I may as well live with it. lol :hatsoff: Hata-off to ya. :grin:
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    Fur bags, fur hats, and fur knife sheaths.

    Thanks guys for your input. :hatsoff: The hat was made from a fox hide and the bag was a coon that I brain tan and made the bag. [The fox hid my Father bought for me back in 74] I made both items around 1976 or 77, the hair started to slowly come out starting around 1985 and by 89 they were...
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    Fur bags, fur hats, and fur knife sheaths.

    Many years ago I made a fur hat with a leather bill, [like the one Charleston Heston wore in the Movie: [”the Mountain Man”] I also made a fur (Racoon) bag. I found that over the years of packing it away, and taking it out to use. The hair stared to fall out, until I had to throw them out...
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    Making charcloth...

    :thumbsup: That it.
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    Making charcloth...

    Make sure the smoking stops and is not just spurting, As soon as it stops smoking take it out of the fire. Allow the tin to cool down before opening.
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    Soap: back in the day

    “Kirk's Castile” bar soap was manufactured and sold for public use in 1839. But it was around much longer. It is still sold today, and can be bought at stores. I get it at Publex Supermarket. It makes a great lather and is great for the hair. The Rody's I have gone to always have someone...
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