its a challengeOh aye .......
Just a small consideration ......two wool blankets under a superfly shouldn't qualify
as people desire to interpret the generic kit list is upto them
Daniel Boone challenge
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as people desire to interpret the generic kit list is upto them
I couldn't sit there thinking, "Hey, I'm doing the Daniel Boone challenge!" whilst chowing down on a Pot Noodle, chorizo and mars bars.
Well if you're trying to keep it accurate, remember the preferred spirit of the time was dark rum.
i didnt specify food other than food
if folk want to parch corn, eat johnny cakes, chew on jerky and sup cowboy coffee go for it
those who want toeat pot noodles (i dont know why anyone would want to do so) can do that too
the kudos may go more to the individual eating johnny cakes though
if folk want to parch corn, eat johnny cakes, chew on jerky and sup cowboy coffee go for it
those who want toeat pot noodles (i dont know why anyone would want to do so) can do that too
the kudos may go more to the individual eating johnny cakes though
Aha! I'm sure I can muster up lying on the floor in a dark rum induced coma for 2 days.
plenty o time to buy either orDon't have a bedroll or 2 wool blankets, I'd have to sub fleece blankets, but I'd be up for it... In the summer.
I'm up for this one. I've got the kit and the recipes for the food, and dark rum sounds good to me (especially if it's Pussers!). Won't be able to do it for a few weeks yet, but sounds like good fun.
Alan
Alan
Heres some interesting reading... Although its about 80 years after Boones day
The marching ration consisted of 1 lb. of hard bread, 3/4 lb. of salt pork or 1 1/4 lb. of fresh meat, plus the sugar, coffee, and salt. The ration lacked variety but in general the complaints about starvation by the older soldiers was largely exaggerated.
Generally the Confederate ration, though smaller in quantity after the spring of 1862 and tending to substitute cornmeal for wheat flour, was little different. But the Confederate commissary system had problems keeping rations flowing to the troops at a steady rate, thus alternating between abundance and scarcity in its issuances.
Soldiers of both armies relied to a great extent on food sent from home and on the ubiquitous Sutler.
Source: "The Civil War Dictionary" by Mark M. Boatner III
Civil War Army Rations
By definition, a ration is the amount of food authorized for one soldier (or animal) for one day. The Confederate government adopted the official US Army ration at the start of the war, although by the spring of 1862 they had the reduce it. According to army regulations for camp rations, a Union soldier was entitled to receive daily 12 oz of pork or bacon or 1 lb. 4 oz of fresh or salt beef; 1 lb. 6 oz of soft bread or flour, 1 lb. of hard bread, or 1 lb. 4 oz of cornmeal. Per every 100 rations there was issued 1 peck of beans or peas; 10 lb. of rice or hominy; 10 lb. of green coffee, 8 lb. of roasted and ground coffee, or 1 lb. 8 oz of tea; 15 lb. of sugar; 1 lb. 4 oz of candles, 4 lb. of soap; 1 qt of molasses. In addition to or as substitutes for other items, desiccated vegetables, dried fruit, pickles, or pickled cabbage might be issued.The marching ration consisted of 1 lb. of hard bread, 3/4 lb. of salt pork or 1 1/4 lb. of fresh meat, plus the sugar, coffee, and salt. The ration lacked variety but in general the complaints about starvation by the older soldiers was largely exaggerated.
Generally the Confederate ration, though smaller in quantity after the spring of 1862 and tending to substitute cornmeal for wheat flour, was little different. But the Confederate commissary system had problems keeping rations flowing to the troops at a steady rate, thus alternating between abundance and scarcity in its issuances.
Soldiers of both armies relied to a great extent on food sent from home and on the ubiquitous Sutler.
Source: "The Civil War Dictionary" by Mark M. Boatner III
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No problem, but I'll have to find my notebook that's got them in. From memory, I've got the recipes for cornmeal mush, cornbread, beans and molasses, and pemmican. there are some others, and I'll post some when I find them.
Alan
Easy, bacon instead of pork or the Polish food shelves in our local suprmarkets has various lumps of pork. John cake much different to a bannock? Do we know that tea wasn't drunk less than coffee? Scurvy can be good for authenticity.
This challenge raises again the relationship potential between bushcraft and living history. Somebody mentioned the basic hierarchy of needs that must be satisfied in any era, bushcraft is one way of satisfying them
This challenge raises again the relationship potential between bushcraft and living history. Somebody mentioned the basic hierarchy of needs that must be satisfied in any era, bushcraft is one way of satisfying them
It doesn't mention it but the Conferates also often substituted peanuts for peas. In any case the civil wat was 100 years later than the Daniel Boone period
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Actually tea was more popular until near the beginning of the revolution. The switch to coffee was first as a protest over tea taxes and later due to an inability to get tea.
As for Johnny-cakes; they're easier that bannock. Bannock is baked whereas Johny-cakes are griddled like pancakes. At their simplest they're just cormeal and water griddled over a fire. They're also called hoe-cakes because the field hands often made them for lunch using their hoes as a griddle.
A link to the American Revolutionary War Rations which Daniel took part in
Great link Mesquite. I don't think 'ration' is the right word, that would last me 3 or 4 days!
