Forgoing Favorite Food From Necessity - Famine Food - 18th Century Cooking

[elkhound]

 

[elkhound]

 

[Dani]

I have been watching a few of his videos over the year now.

 

[Dani]

I have watched a heave tried out a few of his recipes. Lots of good information.

 

[Dani]

You know, he started out just trying to teach people how things used to be. Now he is trying to "educate" us on harder times to come.

 

[Sourdough]

https://www.homesteadingforum.org/threads/famine-food-lists-of-foods-resorted-to-for-survival.16465/

 

[joel]

I like the one about making a mud oven for cooking bread, it was not cured or baked mud & the next rain would wash it away. The fire would dry the mud & you bake the bread, then move on leaving the the road side oven to the elements, as many soldier did.

 

[elkhound]

traditional north american foods for 1000's of years..corn,beans and squash. some tribes ate potatoes and grew amaranth. recently to my understanding some grew sunflowers.

one thing not all tribes ate same food nor would. case in point..the Makah tribe of PNW adopted the fingerling potatoes they found at abandoned Spanish fort.on other end of scale the Hidasta according to buffalo bird woman born in 1840. said late in 1800 they were moved and forced to grow potatoes.their tribe refused to eat them.they didnt like potatoes and wanted traditional corn,beans and squash food. the last year they grew them all went unharvested and that was last time guy over indian affairs forced them to grow them.

the Navajo as soon as contact with spanish they adopted sheep and horses and became sheep herders and started weaving wool blankets.they also learned silver smithing from them.

in the south poor folks and slaves and freed slaves ate from the field.like joel said cowpeas were viewed as livestock feed.immigrants took up eating corn daily to survive but missed or lost knowledge from natives on how to prepare it properly. pellagra became a problem in south. you dont have to worry about nixmilation of corn if you eat greens regular. i believe thats where traditions of eating so many greens in south came from like collards and cabbage etc.

 

[elkhound]

When Sherman's troops overtook and raided the food supplies of the Confederate South, Union soldiers regarded as them as animal feed and left them behind in the fields. The Confederates, however, survived by eating this crop and considered themselves lucky to have had them and, so, the peas became symbolic of luck. Good luck to be gained by eating black-eyed peas with greens (such as collards) comes from the symbols of peas as coins and greens as paper money.

brought over from other thread to understand my above post for members in case they missed it.

 

[joel]

 

[Tommyice]

You know, he started out just trying to teach people how things used to be. Now he is trying to "educate" us on harder times to come.

And he does that in such a calm, measured way. No inciting of panic just trying to make it stick in your mind in a fun and interesting way. Love watching his videos.

 

[joel]

And he does that in such a calm, measured way. No inciting of panic just trying to make it stick in your mind in a fun and interesting way. Love watching his videos.

I like he not pushing an Ebay store on us every five minutes.

 

[Amish Heart]

I watch him regularly, too. Was surprised about the turnips being "foraged" instead of left in the ground to rot as the cover crop. Was thinking about the hog radish being done the same way in my area. It's about time to plant them, and I've got to find where I put that particular seed. They don't taste bad, just a massive diakon type radish. I'd eat them, and our chickens do eat them. I don't mind eating turnips either. People have gotten creative with eating feed corn, too, I'm sure.

 

[Magus]

Some of my favorite foraged foods are
Hoe cakes
Boiled corn meal mush/fried mush
dry land fish/hen in the woods/morels
duck eggs
blackberry fritters
Pine needle tea
creamy fried corn
persimmons
crab-apples
any kind of creek fish
rattle snake
deer
squirrel
rabbit
groundhog
Polk salad
Lambs quarter
goose
beaver
muskidines

BUT, I refuse to eat mud turtle or frogs legs unless I'm starving to death.

 

[Tommyice]

I like he not pushing an Ebay store on us every five minutes.

Yet he does have a website selling some of the items in his videos--clothing, books, kitchen tools. I only found that by doing a search for something I saw in one of the videos.

 

[joel]

I watch him regularly, too. Was surprised about the turnips being "foraged" instead of left in the ground to rot as the cover crop. Was thinking about the hog radish being done the same way in my area. It's about time to plant them, and I've got to find where I put that particular seed. They don't taste bad, just a massive diakon type radish. I'd eat them, and our chickens do eat them. I don't mind eating turnips either. People have gotten creative with eating feed corn, too, I'm sure.

I am working a new plot with windham winter pea & winter rye grass as a cover crop.
I am going to broadcast turnips, Bull blood beets & radiches around the edge, if they make then I will harvest some.
If not I will try again next Spring.

 

[Amish Heart]

I know many are already seeding the hog radish in their veg garden plots but that is because they pulled their gardens already. Mine is still going strong. I will have a good sized area to maybe plant those when I dig the sweet potatoes. I've been starting to pull vine each day for animal food, and a few more days of that, and I'll start digging. Was thinking of beets, carrots, and greens in the new green house, but will be eating those, not groundcover. And I still have two doors to finish and then all the grow boxes to do.