Foods you carry and use

[Woods Dweller]

Only rendezvous offered the chance to eat relatively well with some certainty. large supplies of special foods were brought to provide a "reward" for the rendezvous.

When you go to, rendezvous, Reenacting Festival, Primitive camping, ect.....

Do you try to stay with the food and cooking of food to the time period your living?

Food Timeline http://www.foodtimeline.org/

 

[Blizzard of '93]

a good bit of the 'trekking' foods I carry are actually 'hc', or used to trekk I oughta say as bum knees prevent much of that now. jerky, dry lentils and other dry veggies/fruit, grits, cone brown sugar, tea, in cold weather even cheese&butter and salt pork/bacon. I do carry instant milk and bisquick.
'primitive camping' out of a vehicle menu is more varied since carrying more isn't a problem. canned goods and 'taters both irish and sweet and other foods and dairy stuff and eggs even and stuff to bake with.
btw thanks for the interesting link.

 

[spudnut]

Pickled balogna :thumbsup:

 

[Woods Dweller]

I know pickled meats were a way to preserve meats. Where do you get pickled bologna today?

 

[Woods Dweller]

Dry Beef stew

Ingredients
1 or 2 lb lean beef
Bottle of stake sauce
1 large bag frozen mix Vegetables

Cut beef into about 1in squares, place in bowl with stake sauce and let sit over night. Place beef into a food dehydrator and dry overnight or until beef is dry like jerky.
Next: put frozen mix Vegetables into food dehydrator and dry overnight or until Vegetables are dry out completely.
Put wire screen on bottom rack of food dehydrator because the Vegetables will shrink and fall thought the slats of your dehydrator.
Mix dry beef and Vegetables together and store in a dry place. Waterproof bag or a jar.

Place a hand full of Beef stew in a small boiler and boil for 1hr, or until soft. Add salt and pepper to taste.

This makes for a light weight food to carry and is tasty.

I have used nothing more than a tin cup and dry Beef stew, for 3 days. Carried the dry Beef stew in a waterproof canvas bag.

 

[spudnut]

Pickled Balogna? Most grocers carry it around here.

 

[Blizzard of '93]

the 'spice rack' company that makes spices also sells 2 oz plastic jars of dried veggie flakes fairly cheap.
I've shaved jerky into rice, add a beef bullion cube, water and the veggie flakes cook until the rice is done for a satisfying and nutritous meal a one-pot meal. if it's cold weather and you have butter add a large pat it really adds flavor. and couple drops hot sauce if you have.

 

[RJL]

i usualy carry parched corn mixed with chunks of a sugar cone all crushed together. tastes like caramel corn. good snack when you want something quick/sweet tooth fix. i also carry smoke cured dried bacon,ill boil that twice to soften it some then throw it in with some rice or cormeal.

 

[Woods Dweller]

Thanks gents. I am adding them to my foods to try! :thumbsup:
Peace

 

[Woods Dweller]

Any of you Gentlemen ever place biscuits in a tin frying pan then tilt the frying pan close to the fire and bake them like this? Works like a reflector oven and the biscuits come out good.
Peace

 

[ohio ramrod]

Actually one of the main reasons I go to rendezvous is to eat the "old style " food. Breakfast: Dry cured and smoked bacon,eggs and spuds. Lunch: various meats cooked over open fire. Dinner: Hams,chicken, venison, etc. Deserts, Coblers apple, peach etc. And maple and honey icecream. (Tomas Jefferson prefered the Spitzenburg apples for baking with batter, and maple syrup on his icecream. He was instrumental in bringing icecream to the colonies along with Ben Franklin. Icecream was developed in France) For eveing snacks I like dried apples rehydrated with rum! :hmm: