Camp and Rendezvous Foods?

[tenngun]

Good list. I do have a small flask of rum. I like the 'puddings in a haste' basicly a dumpling that taste a lot like a hunters pudding but makes in 20 min and not three hours.
I like more and more of historic dishes. It adds so much to the experience to sample the type of food they were eating.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

When I go to Rendezvous I usually lose weight.

Good gosh man! Are you a shy person? :grin:

I know two fellows who went without any food to a five day event, the Ft. Frederick Market Fair, on purpose...., to see just how generous black powder people really are with the victuals. As an experiment. After all,... as Dog Soldiers for the event in the past, everybody offered them food as they walked by during meals.....

They had to refuse food they were so stuffed, AND they both gained weight. :wink:

LD

 

[Woods Dweller]

Good gosh man! Are you a shy person ?

Not Shy at all! Just got good manners. I was raised not to panhandle. But to make my own way.

I know two fellows who went without any food to a five day event, the Ft. Frederick Market Fair, on purpose...., to see just how generous black powder people really are with the victuals. As an experiment. After all,... as Dog Soldiers for the event in the past, everybody offered them food as they walked by during meals.....

They had to refuse food they were so stuffed, AND they both gained weight.

I also have seen people not bring food. Then brag that they did not have to buy food for the week. And show up at peoples camps at breakfast & dinner.
What I described as my list of food was PC. It satisfied me, and like most of us. I need to lose a few pounds.
No harm no foul. :hatsoff:

 

[tenngun]

I've given a lot of food away at voo, and ate at another camps fire more then once. However part of my experince is the cooking at the fire and the taste of the food cooked in the rough. When I picture the best part in my head it's morning and the camps around me are making breakfast and having the morning chat, coughs and spits and just waking up. A second cup of coffee sits near the fire, one in my hand. My belly is full of porridge, a pipe in my hand, and joy in my heart.

 

[satx78247]

To quote the famous NC author, ROBERT C. RUARK, "A fellow could quickly become a millionaire if he could make coffee at home that tastes as good as the first cup made from creek-water tastes on the creek-bank 'early on a frosty morn'."

yours, satx

 

[Woods Dweller]

To quote the famous NC author, ROBERT C. RUARK, "A fellow could quickly become a millionaire if he could make coffee at home that tastes as good as the first cup made from creek-water tastes on the creek-bank 'early on a frosty morn'."

Yea. If you could add that atmosphere you would have it made.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

I was raised not to panhandle.

Neither were they. :haha: They were assigned rounds of the camping areas, mostly making sure folks had people at their open fires and fire buckets were filled, weren't causing massive conflagrations by burning off the bacon grease or worse, having an actual grease fire.... and simply accepted hospitality when it was offered.

They fully understood the possibility that they might go very hungry. :wink:

LD

 

[Woods Dweller]

Ok good.

 

[Woods Dweller]

People that I am referring to are people that show up at your camp at any meal time with a plate and fork. And hang around, & around & around waiting for the invite. Then after feeding them they make the comment: “I don’t have to bring food, I always get fed.” These are the panhandlers I am speaking of. Many years ago I was gotten once by these freeloaders. Never again. If I have steeped on anyone’s toes, so be it. Good day. :hatsoff:

 

[tenngun]

No matter what group you put together you end up with bad eggs. People getting in fights at little league, people cheating in soap box derbies, on our front we see the whiners in shooting competitions, or begging for food or dunks puking and making idjits of them selfs. God created half the population to test the fairhful :haha:

 

[Woods Dweller]

I agree. Anyway back to the subject.
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
PS. I am not wild about washing pots, pans,
& plates.

When my wife comes”¦.That’s a different story. :hatsoff:

 

[coloradoclyde]

Home Brew

:grin: :thumbsup:

 

[satx78247]

YEP.
(Ruark is my favorite author, as his writing returns me, in my mind, to my mostly idyllic Texas boyhood every time. - his "Old Man" always reminds me of my beloved grandfather.)

yours, satx

 

[ohio ramrod]

Trekking : jerky, dried apples, dried corn, &smoked cheese. Rendezvous. Slab bacon (dry cured),venison, eggs, potatoes, dried veggies for stews, beans, peppers, apples, flour, corn meal, dry cured hams,olive oil. Maple syrup, honey, cheese, and lots of milk if I am making ice cream. (The Moore box was pattened in 1802 and was in use at the Governor's mansion in Vincennes in 1803. Thomas Jefferson brought back the "french pot" method of making Ice cream from France. And he preferred the Spritensburg apple for baking with batter. So my apple cobbler and maple and honey ice cream are period correct. )

 

[satx78247]

Would you care to share Mr. Jefferson's ice cream technique/recipe?
(As best as I can remember, that's not in The Monticello Cookbook)

yours, satx

 

[coloradoclyde]

https://www.history.org/Foundation/journal/Spring10/icecream.cfm

 

[satx78247]

THANK YOU.

yours, satx

 

[tenngun]

I've got some salt pork making in the laundry room right now, will dry some potatoes and make some ships bread next time I have a space of time off.....Lobscouse on the hoof :wink:

 

[Loyalist Dave]

I've corresponded with Mary Theobald, the author of the article. While in the land we today call China, there are references to a chilled or frozen milk product..., milk faded from the Chinese cuisine so probably was not the origin of what we would call ice cream.

While an Italian doctor noticed the salt and ice reaction in the 1500's, it wasn't really widely known until a friend of Galileo "rediscovered" it in Florence, in the mid 1600's. It should be noted that Catherine de Medici was from Florence, and that may be why some folks think that Sabayon, which did exist in Catherine's time, may have been confused with what we call ice cream.

OR..., it may simply be that Sabayon was the basis for the first true ice cream, omit the liquor, and use the ice/salt method and voila, and since it existed in Catherine's time ice cream must have been there too...., Well, no, but the earliest ice cream recipes are very close to cooked custard, so I think our ice cream, is a Florentine invention, ....,

Anyway, back to camp foods.....

LD

 

[Crewdawg445]

No matter what group you put together you end up with bad eggs. People getting in fights at little league, people cheating in soap box derbies, on our front we see the whiners in shooting competitions, or begging for food or dunks puking and making idjits of them selfs. God created half the population to test the fairhful :haha:

Well said! :thumbsup: