Rice?

[coloradoclyde]

Rice is rarely ever discussed...But much rice was produced in the 1700's...
http://www.lsuagcenter.com/portals...ons/the-history-of-us-rice-production--part-1
http://betweenthewaters.org/rice-mill/donaldson-brothers-rice-mill/

 

[Black Hand]

Carolina Gold rice was renowned...

 

[omarick1948]

Clyde, Good research to know for everyone and the documentation Police.

:thumbsup:

 

[NeilMacleod]

I use allot of rice, nice articles thanks!

 

[Nativearizonan]

Rice is rarely ever discussed...But much rice was produced in the 1700's...
http://www.lsuagcenter.com/portals...ons/the-history-of-us-rice-production--part-1
http://betweenthewaters.org/rice-mill/donaldson-brothers-rice-mill/[/quote]

From the first link:

By the 1780s production in the region (South Carolina and Georgia) had reached 80,000,000 pounds. Then as today, about half of the annual rice production was exported and half was consumed in the United States.

That shows a fairly high rate of rice consumption, I would think. Maybe 4 million colonists at the time, consuming 40 million pounds of rice comes to about 10 lbs per capita per year. That is nearly as much as is eaten in the US today, more than the amount eaten in Turkey or Mexico today, and about twice as much as is eaten in the EU today:
http://www.uark.edu/ua/ricersch/pdfs/per_capita_rice_consumption_of_selected_countries.pdf

 

[George]

Carolina Gold rice was renowned...

It's still available.

Spence

 

[coloradoclyde]

Rice is rarely ever discussed...But much rice was produced in the 1700's...
http://www.lsuagcenter.com/portals...ons/the-history-of-us-rice-production--part-1
http://betweenthewaters.org/rice-mill/donaldson-brothers-rice-mill/[/quote]

From the first link:

By the 1780s production in the region (South Carolina and Georgia) had reached 80,000,000 pounds. Then as today, about half of the annual rice production was exported and half was consumed in the United States.

That shows a fairly high rate of rice consumption, I would think. Maybe 4 million colonists at the time, consuming 40 million pounds of rice comes to about 10 lbs per capita per year. That is nearly as much as is eaten in the US today, more than the amount eaten in Turkey or Mexico today, and about twice as much as is eaten in the EU today:
http://www.uark.edu/ua/ricersch/pdfs/per_capita_rice_consumption_of_selected_countries.pdf[/quote]

Per capita consumption today is closer to 31 lbs according to your chart...2.2lbs to the kilo
I also suspect slaves weren't included in the census...Nor Native Americans....

I'm not trying to validate the numbers posted....As everyone has their own methods of compiling statistics....
Just saying that a lot of rice was produced and ultimately consumed....I assume that little rice ended up as animal fodder.

 

[Black Hand]

Carolina Gold rice was renowned...

It's still available.

Spence

It is indeed. http://www.carolinaplantationrice.com/store/products/Carolina-Plantation-Gold-Rice.html http://ansonmills.com/products/23 https://www.amazon.com/carolina-gold-rice/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=i:aps,k:carolina gold rice
I haven't ordered any yet, but am curious to try it myself....

That said, from the pictures it appears that one could substitute a medium-grain rice for your local store.

 

[nhmoose]

Nice links thanks! :thumbsup:

 

[tenngun]

We get tunnel vision in our look at the past. We tend to think in terms of corn for Americans, or we get a timely gun, even though many were twenty or more years old. Clothing would ware out quick enough that clothing mostly was instyle st the time. We also tend to look at English/American cooking and less on French then far less on Dutch and Swedish. In our seaports men of every nation would show up who could also add to cooking styles.
Unfortunately we are like the guy looking for his wallet under the street light that he droped in the dark alley. Our cooking resources are limited and prejudiced in the view. The slave-cook for a plantation was less concerned with traditions and more concerned about taste,but her recipes were rarely written down. North the middle class and lower kept food styles from home and adjusted to what was avalible,they too passed recipes on orally and not written .

 

[satx78247]

The plantation in Spartanburg County, SC (that my niece now owns/manages) has produced rice since the 18th Century & once was a major producer of indigo.
(Since the 1870s the major production of the land has been rice & cattle.)

yours, satx

 

[coloradoclyde]

Hi satx78247 ..... I missed ya.

Indigo.... :hmm:

 

[tenngun]

I don't eat indigo, I find it bitter and it turns your tongue blue. Let me tell you you don't want to get caught by a game warden with a blue tongue :haha:

 

[coloradoclyde]

Indigo would make an interesting topic on it's own....
For some reason indigo makes me think of laundry bluing..... :idunno:

 

[satx78247]

Best not enjoy a coconut popsicle then. = When I was a shirttail kid, we had the blue-tongue syndrome most all Summer.

yours, satx

 

[satx78247]

Frankly, about all I know about indigo is that BLUE was once a rather rare/valuable dye for textiles for several thousand years.
In the Western Hemisphere, commercial production started in the Caribbean Islands & then was introduced to SC in the late 17th century..
About 1900 planting/harvesting natural indigo essentially ended because the color could be made with a synthetic dye at much lower cost.

yours, satx

 

[coloradoclyde]

Though not true indigo, one of the indigo species grew wild in eastern Florida...apparently is was so prized that the British cultivated it extensively and even subsidized farmers to grow it.

 

[Black Hand]

Woad...

 

[coloradoclyde]

Woad is another species that produces indigo..

 

[coloradoclyde]

For those that like to read....you will find this book about Florida written in 1775 interesting.....if you can stand the lazy s's

https://archive.org/details/concisenaturalhi00roma