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folks carry whats they likes to eat. And life is too short to eat things you don't want to. I do however enjoy my lobscose, and puddings. Most of what I carry is a lot less bulky and a lot lighter then canned. Not as light as freeze dried for sure but still pretty tasty.
 
You going where there is ice or not? I went for a week into Canada, and the cabin actually had a fridge that ran on propane. They had to canoe in the propane though.

If no fridge I'd probably look at either a lot of jerky or some freeze dried food, or simply get used to a lot of rice & beans & salt pork/bacon plus ship's biscuit...ah iron rations..., and some sugar and tea and oats. :grin: The problem is most canned stuff is pretty heavy due to water content.

I checked out an in home freeze drier..., heck IF I had that cash I'd buy a custom rifle. :shocked2:

LD
 
Most any food that can be boiled can be found dehydrated these days.
(I saw some time ago on the net that even lasagna is now available from a freeze-dried supplier.)

yours, satx
 
satx78247 said:
Most any food that can be boiled can be found dehydrated these days.
(I saw some time ago on the net that even lasagna is now available from a freeze-dried supplier.)
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That is true.
The question one must ask about freeze-dried meals is: Do I really want to eat that?

The ones I've seen look (and smell) like cat-food..
 
Fwiw, my "brother of the heart" buys dehydrated food from an "LDS-owned company" in UT & he says that their food is quite good, though $$$$$$$ per serving.- I haven't tried it myself.

"Little Brother" lives in a mountainous area where you can be snowed/iced in for weeks.
(One year we were "iced in" up on the mountain for the 2 weeks after Christmas. - Thankfully, we had plenty of food, propane & diesel fuel.)
I cooked a LOT of venison stew, pinto beans with ham hocks & cornbread during that time.

yours, satx
 
Black Hand said:
satx78247 said:
Most any food that can be boiled can be found dehydrated these days.
(I saw some time ago on the net that even lasagna is now available from a freeze-dried supplier.)
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That is true.
The question one must ask about freeze-dried meals is: Do I really want to eat that?

The ones I've seen look (and smell) like cat-food..
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:rotf: Water is where the weight is in food. 3000 calories weighs just a little more then pound, maybe a pound and a half with fiber. IMHO old dried food makes a lot better meal then MREs. My daughter back packs with me at times. We make a sight to see, her in nylon and down, me in wool and linen. She has her gulash in a tin foil package with a just add water instuctions, some how she always ends up with a bowl of my trail soup or puddings in a haste. Her gulash never tempts me :haha:
 
HAAAAAA! In a cabin for a week. Boy you sure were wilderness roughing it. I'm talking about horse packing in miles and miles for at least a month. I always made biscuits twice a day.(breakfast, lunch, dinner) Up 2 hrs. before day and dinner after light. Always some kind of meat. (can you say canned ham) Hotcakes, dehydrated mashed potatoes with wild grouse gravy. Elk tender loan or bear roast. We camped with real hunters who brought in the game. We lived high and comfortable with good eats and good drinks at the end of the day. No DIRT camping for us.
 
NO ICE????"??? How do you think people survived without ice before you were born???? My grandma as far as I know never had an ounce of ice in her house in her life and she survived into her 90's. Ice is only a modern day convenience.
 
HAAAAAA! In a cabin for a week. Boy you sure were wilderness roughing it.
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Yeah the two day canoe trip to get there was sooo easy. :shocked2: Sure the guide had somehow schlepped the fridge in, and the guys with the modern guns I'm sure enjoyed it. My staking out a spot in the woods for moose was a camp a couple of lakes to the East. I was just wondering how little tech the OP might have. Canning is, after all, a 19th century invention.

NO ICE????"??? How do you think people survived without ice before you were born???? My grandma as far as I know never had an ounce of ice in her house in her life and she survived into her 90's. Ice is only a modern day convenience.
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Well lets see I was born in 1963, so I know that people before I was born had the fridge, and before that had the ice-box, and before that, for a couple of centuries in North America, they had the ice house (See Mount Vernon for details) and before that for several centuries there was the ice house in Europe and Asia (see the Journals of Marco Polo), and before that Nero had ice carted down to Rome to eat shaved ice in the summer..., not to mention the documented use of frozen pea soup used by folks in Winter in the English Colonies in North America while travelling by sled in the 18th century.

Not really sure why anyone would think that I implied life was impossible or short without ice, and not sure how your grandmother's lack of use has any bearing on my question.


LD
 
Approximate amounts:
1-2 sticks butter
Cinnamon and/or Nutmeg to taste
1-2 cups brown sugar
Rum to taste (1-2 cups) (Myers's Dark Rum is what we've used)
Approximately 1.5-2 liters of boiling water (dissolves the sugar and butter)

Heat the mulling iron (or a steel rod - the one we use is a 4-5 inch long x 1 inch thick piece of round-stock with a 1/4 or 3/8 inch square-stock handle welded to one end) to red-hot (a charcoal brazier works quite well) and plunge into the earthenware pitcher containing the above, stir about to caramelize the sugar.
 
This recipe (if I'm remembering it well) won 1st place at the Western National Rendezvous (IIRC) Hot-buttered Rum contest in Colorado several years ago.
 
YEP. :hatsoff:

Fwiw, my GF said that, "If you drink enough likker, it'll probably cure anything including cancer. If it doesn't cure you, you'll be too tanked to care."

yours, satx
 
While its good about any time it is best by a fire on a crisp night or in a cool winter room with soft lights. While I harbor no fears of drinking alone Hot buttered rum or Tom and Jerrys are drinks to be had in jovial company.
 
I take elk, Jalapeno summer sausage, man, I could live on that stuff. When we get elk, that's one of my priority meats when we have it cut up.
 
One of the many reasons I don't trek. I roughed it for a year, sleeping on the ground without a tent and eating both canned and freeze-dried rations and eaten by mosquitoes and crawled upon by spiders. It was thoroughly unpleasant.

Could I get by on smoked venison and grits? Sure. Would I learn anything or get closer to my roots? Maybe. Am I willing to dress up in hand-stitched clothes, suffer bug bites, haul around heavy and easily spoiled food and go without a cold beer? Definitely not.

If you like to do that, God love you. It just ain't in my future nor MY personal sense of fun.
 
To be real period correct, you would have to take your age and ask the question "What would a 65 year old (or whatever age) eat at a rendezvous in the 1820s? The answer would probably be that there were no 65 year olds at a rendezvous in the 1820s, unless it was one or two old Indian Chiefs, and they probably didn't have teeth, so they probably ate mush or broth.
 

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