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Camp and Rendezvous Foods?

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Well, as the title states I'm curious to see what you all like to carry as your staples to events? Besides the "must haves" coffee, eggs and bacon, what's on your list? How do you carry it and store your foods? One area I think deserves some mention! Besides shooting, my next favorite thing to do is camp cook! :hatsoff:
 
Base Camp or Trekking?

Trekking: Rock-a-hominy [coal flour], dried apples, corn meal, raisins, chocolate, gunpowder tea or black tea (loose), salt, red pepper, piloncillo sugar, jerked venison, dry bacon [in winter], and 100 proof spirits.

No Ice/Base Camp: Whole wheat pastry flour, corn meal, masa flour, oatmeal, yeast, honey, canned evap milk, raisins, chocolate, coffee, brown sugar, white sugar, black tea, apple cider vinegar, steel cut oats, dry bacon, extra virgin olive oil, garlic bulb, baking powder, salt, red pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, curry powder, black pepper, a couple of tins of canned beef or dried sausage like Sojuk or Landjaeger, fresh apples, fresh oranges, salted butter, and 100 proof spirits.

Base Camp w/Ice Available: As the above Base Camp, but change the dry bacon [expensive] for regular thick cut bacon, and add fresh eggs, beef suet, regular butter as well as salted butter, sharp cheese, rasberry jam, a venison or beef roast, venison bologna, and fresh sausage, plus a good quality cold-barley-soup [beer].

LD
 
Usually we are where we can have a cooler/ice, (ie hunting camp)so...
potato's, onions, peppers, sausages, bacon, eggs, lard, tortillas, bread, peanutbutter, jelly, hamburger, steak, lunch meat, cheese, flour, salt, pepper, snickers bars, coffee, hot chocolate, pancake mix, cornbread mix,

And, of course, jack and coke
 
My wife doesn't go to 'voo with me any more. I miss her at camp, but I can keep a more hc camp. I try to use historic foods when I go to camp. Portage or hasty pudding and coffee for breakfast. Dry smoked bacon, salt pork and beef dried veggies beans green pea soup ect for dinner. You can have a lot of choice still stay hc and not have to use modren ice chest. Puddings meat pies and 'farced meat' makes for tasty dinners.
 
potato's, onions, peppers, sausages, bacon, eggs, lard, tortillas, bread, peanutbutter, jelly, hamburger, steak, lunch meat, cheese, flour, salt, pepper, snickers bars, coffee, hot chocolate, pancake mix, cornbread mix,

And, of course, jack and coke

Forget what I wrote...

EVERYBODY LETS GO TO TALLSWIFE's CAMP! :grin:

LD
 
Most of the group consensus I'm game for on any given trip. I'm also pretty good at turning some chicken into jerky after I forget about and shoot the woods walk.

But I absolutely need some earl grey green tea on a crisp morning. And some homemade wine on a relaxing evening. Also after making some traditional ships biscuits, I've been enjoying those as well.
 
You took the words straight out of my mouth.

When my beloved was able, C/1/10th LA Infantry frequently had ham/eggs/cream gravy/biscuits/coffee for breakfast, a "pocket lunch" to take into the field & often a huge stew with cornbread & pie/cobbler/etc. for supper.
(Our outfit never had any trouble getting other unit's members to come to supper!! = CHUCKLE.)

Note: Once, when we had some "Messieurs de Quebec" in the 10th, they complained bitterly that we always had American/Anglo-Canadian meals, so one Saturday dinner we had a "full spread" of French food.
(Les Quebecois were THRILLED.)

yours, satx
 
Well this post made me go make dandelion root leaf tea... one of my favorite plants! I like to pack dried leaves and roots for tea. I'll also take the blossoms and spices, cook them up over the fire in my castirons. Wilderness cooking is just down right amazingly... amazing!
 
Loyalist Dave said:
potato's, onions, peppers, sausages, bacon, eggs, lard, tortillas, bread, peanutbutter, jelly, hamburger, steak, lunch meat, cheese, flour, salt, pepper, snickers bars, coffee, hot chocolate, pancake mix, cornbread mix,

And, of course, jack and coke

Forget what I wrote...

EVERYBODY LETS GO TO TALLSWIFE's CAMP! :grin:

LD

:rotf: Your all welcome!!! Bring your own jack!!!
 
I did forget to add....
Chips, salsa, butter, and homemade choc chip cookies (which go great with morning coffee :haha: ) Sugar, creamer, and barley pop
 
Not a drinker... I do enjoy silkys wines and that's a stretch! However he makes some VERY good strong drink. You can just taste the careful nature he puts into them. :hatsoff:

I do sometimes carry a small amount of rum for rasher & rum only. Other than that I'm a tea and coffee guy.
 
Well...., now if I take my Beef Suet, and the pasty flour and baking powder, plus the sugar AND the jam, and using a buttered linen cloth, I make a proper boiled pudding by the name of Rolly Polly..., THEN serve it with hard sauce made by creaming sugar, butter, and the rum I brought....You'll be glad I brought the rum, lad.

:wink:

LD
 
When I go to Rendezvous I usually lose weight.
My list:
Coffee
Sea biscuits
Jerky,
Dry mix Veg
Dry Fruit
Potatoes
Salt & pepper
Water
Wine
Home Brew

In Small food box. Tin Corn boiler, Tin coffee cup, wood spoon, I make small canvas bags for all dry goods. http://masterpiecewoodcrafters.net/Mess-Chest.html


When my wife comes”¦.That’s a different story.
 
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I guess if you wanted to be period correct for the RMFT you'd have to bring some everclear and cut it with water, coffee, and tobacco juice.

The 1843 rendezvous, though, was better supplied. The Stewart-Sublette Party, was anyway, according to Sunder in his biography of Bill Sublette:

They purchased a keg of sloe gin, two of cognac, a barrel of alcohol, one dozen bottles of champagne, and two of port wine.

He didn't mention any rum, though. The barrel of alcohol was probably for trade at the 'vous; the rest was most likely for the traveling party itself, and special guests.
 
Awe man...I'm happy to share without being buttered up. :haha: Those dandelions fermenting in the kitchen are smelling awful sweet.
 
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