horwitze korsher foods

[tenngun]

just was on a treck took some horwitz korsher soup mix.I like korsher foods although I'm not jewish nor do I keep korsher.Their soup mix is all hc/pc ...dried green peas barley dry corn.Any meat that you add stops it from being korsher,and I add one of the most forbidden meats.The soups cook up in about an hour.They serve4-5 normal people or 1 hungry skinner.They are healthy tasty and hc.You can even enjoy them at home with a "He-brew"beer if you can get it in yore state :haha:

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Yep, I like all sorts of "ethnic" markets and products for use in living history.

I go to the "Latin America" aisle at one local market and get dried corn to make into parched corn, as well as cones of sugar, and chocolate for making into beverages. You can also get coarse ground corn meal.

Kosher stores are a good place to find spices and although NOT PC..., try a Kosher Coke (available around Passover/Easter). They are made with real sugar not corn sugar, and the taste is better.

I also like Armenian or Indian stores for there you can find spices available two centuries ago, that have dropped out of the standard American "spice pallet", plus you can find lots of different teas and green coffee. I get my gunpowder tea and a dried beef sausage called soudjouk from the Armenian store. It's similar to Landjäger sausage, doesn't need refrigeration (and I have to mail order Landjäger where I live so buying soudjouk is quicker).

A local "European" store here stocks Knorr brand erbswurst, which is another type of dried, pea soup.

The local fish market (mine is Korean) is a good place to get fish with the "head on" if you are going to try to make Stargazy Pie, but I'd opt for a less oily fish than that called for in the recipe, and sometimes you can find trout or catfish with the head on if you want to broil them or plank them at an historic event.

So definitely check out local "ethnic" markets.

:thumbsup:
LD

 

[Silex]

Landjäger
erbswurst
:thumbsup:
LD

:grin: Now we're getting down to it...

Ethnic food is always interesting, it really mixes things up. When I was travelling for work I always tried the local stuff, you never know what you find.

Silex

 

[Woods Dweller]

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 stock cube.

I am more a wine person myself.
http://www.kosherwine.com/Default.asp

L'Chaim

 

[crockett]

I think Knorr still makes the dry pea soup that comes in sticks but you have to special order it.

 

[Woods Dweller]

I think Knorr still makes the dry pea soup that comes in sticks but you have to special order it.

Crockett, I dont belive I have ever seen this. Thanks, I am going to look for it.

 

[crockett]

It's called Erbswurst and sold by Knorr (wwww.knorr.com) but you have to special order from germany and buy 10 sticks. It was developed about 1870 and is therefore not pc but is a good trail food.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Naw, you can look for it on eBay and buy a stick of 6 tablets in a roll at a time..., but with the shipping you might want to buy more than one tube.

OH and the stuff was used up into WWI and is the same "on paper", but the modern stuff sure tastes better, AND it has tiny bacon bits for flavor.

OH and dried, pea soup is very correct. The current version was done in the end of the 19th century, but how different can one get with dried peas???

LD

 

[gearheart]

From what I hear the erbswurst they used in WW1 was their version of MRE. 3 lies for the price of 1. The green haze that "food" caused might have been the first chemical weapon. :rotf:

 

[crockett]

Lipton used to sell an instant pea soup powder, add boiling water and you are good to go. I don't know why they discontinued it. The Knorr pills are pea powder and bacon fat mixed together and each stick is composed of 6 "pills", one pill yields one cup of soup.
Are powdered dried peas PC to 1840? Never read anything about it?

 

[Silex]

If I were to travel like I used to, the last couple of years I could bring some Erbswurst over the pond - but not anymore.

Playing with trail food I did try my hand at peasoup. I used dried peas, parched them in advance and cooked up a soup from jerky, parched peas and grits, pinch of salt, pepper and nutmeg. Tasted pretty good - I usually don't like peas that much but the roast arome adds a nice touch.
One could carry the parched peas in a pouch - it is very light and a little bit goes quite a way.

The rest of the parched peas is sitting in a bowl in my kitchen for a tad over two weeks now - no change.

Silex

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Pease porridge hot,
Pease porridge cold,
Pease porridge in the pot,
Nine days old,

Dried peas could be powdered when you are ready to cook. As a porridge, they were mashed, if not powdered before cooking. (iirc) Rogers' Rangers froze pea soup, and would hack off a hunk and thaw it in a kettle when ready to eat, as winter travel food. This stuff goes back to the Romans and the Greeks, and obviously carried forward for the rhyme is in understandable English. :grin:

LD