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 Food:
Recommended for Trek
Description: A woman preparing dinner
at the campsite.
Image courtesy of: Heritage Gateway Project Images,
These images have been gathered to support the Sesquicentennial
celebration of the immigration to Utah.
Taken from the Nauvoo Neighbor, 1845
Jerky: beef or venison
Dried Fruit: apples, peaches
Dried Vegetables
Dried Beans: navy beans (small white), red beans
Fresh meat as available: Antelope, Goose, Duck, Rabbit, Deer, Buffalo
Rice Flour or Breadstuffs
Saleratus (baking soda)
Milk (if you had a milch cow)
Salt
Nutmeg
Cinnamon
Cloves
Mustard
Black Pepper
Cayenne Pepper
Sugar
Eggs (if you had chickens)
Breakfast Ideas For the 1997 Trek
Johnny cakes
cornmeal mush
rusk (dried cornbread cereal)
Lunch Ideas
Bread (cracker, cornbread, hard tack, etc.)
Jerky or pemmican (a concentrated food used by No. American Indians
consisting of lean meat dried, pounded fine, mixed with melted fat.
Another variation used for emergency rations: dried beef, flour,
molasses, suet [hard fat - tallow])
Fruit
Dinner Ideas
Breads: Sheepherder Bread (does not require milk)
Crackers
Cornbread
Soda biscuits
Journey Cake (Bread)
Beans: Bean Soup
Beans & Bacon or Ham
Beans & Rice
Soups/Stews: Jerky Stew
Watchagot Stew (what ever is available goes in) |
