Civil War food

[Gene L]

Bizarre Foods with Zimmerman has a show on Civil War foods at 1:00 pm EDT. If you have time to get it, it may be informative.

 

[Gene L]

Don't waste your time.

 

[Claude Mathis]

Don't waste your time.

I like reviews that don't beat around the bush. :wink:

 

[crockett]

I like hoe cakes better than hardtack.

 

[satx78247]

Personally, I know of NOBODY in my part of Northeast Texas who doesn't like "hoecakes".
(In NETX, we call that "hot water cornbread" & often serve it as a "side" to catfish & fried potatoes, after being dipped in hot pepper sauce. = Our so-called, "GREEN FIRE".)

yours, satx

 

[crockett]

I always wondered if you didn't have enough fat to deep fry hush puppies if that's when hoe cakes got started.

 

[satx78247]

SORRY, I just don't know that answer. - You may well be 100% correct.

yours, satx

 

[Coot]

Hoe cakes, jonny cakes, ash cakes or whatever you want to call them likely go back to Scottish oat cakes - made the same way but with oats rather than corn and predating the colonies.

 

[Vaino]

During the Civil War when rations were in short supply, scavenger groups collected all sorts of food....so there isn't a knowledgeable answer. "Whatever the countryside provided" is possibly the best answer.....Fred

 

[Black Hand]

I always wondered if you didn't have enough fat to deep fry hush puppies if that's when hoe cakes got started.

Fat/oil are heavy and I suspect weren't commonly carried - except perhaps in the form of bacon or saltpork. You still aren't getting enough to deep-fry hushpuppies...

Every culture has some sort of fried dough/fritter.

 

[George]

If you try to fry hoecakes on a hoe, the oil all runs off. :haha:

I would suspect hushpuppies made it onto the scene long after hoecakes/journeycakes/johnnycakes.

Spence

 

[Black Hand]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnycake

 

[nhmoose]

Don't waste your time.

Agree