| Tango01 | 24 Jan 2020 12:57 p.m. PST |
"Even before a food supply system was organized, on June 10, 1775, the Massachusetts Provincial Council set the daily allowance or ration for its troops in Boston as:…"
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robert piepenbrink  | 24 Jan 2020 1:50 p.m. PST |
Yeah, the ECW was pretty much the same. "A pound of bread and half a pound of cheese." I suspect 500g of bread or rice and 250g of protein--cheese, fish or meat--with whatever vegetables could be found locally would pretty well sum up military rations into the 20th Century. Just add a little mold. |
| Dave Jackson | 24 Jan 2020 1:53 p.m. PST |
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| Major Bloodnok | 24 Jan 2020 3:33 p.m. PST |
Massachusetts has had a daily allowance for its provincial troops way before the AWI. It often consisted of beef or pork (more pork than beef, I think) rice, pease, not to mention rum. There were other items but I can't remember them at the moment. The amount varied whether one was part of a garrison or on campaig. |
| Tango01 | 24 Jan 2020 10:26 p.m. PST |
How they carried the butter?…. Amicalement
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| Major Bloodnok | 25 Jan 2020 3:40 a.m. PST |
I have alsways wondered about that myself since butter does get mentioned. |
| doc mcb | 25 Jan 2020 4:47 a.m. PST |
You have to tie the churner and the maid on the back of the cow. |
| Au pas de Charge | 25 Jan 2020 11:25 a.m. PST |
I dont know about the ordinary soldiers but I believe Generals, Howe, Burgoyne and Cornwallis ate crow. |
| Tango01 | 25 Jan 2020 11:37 a.m. PST |
(smile)
Maybe they used some ice?…. or it was liquid butter?
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| Virginia Tory | 29 Jan 2020 11:42 a.m. PST |
Butter or cheese would usually be wrapped in a cloth. No ice--that's aristocratic frippery. |
| Tango01 | 29 Jan 2020 9:28 p.m. PST |
Thanks!.
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| Jeffers | 30 Jan 2020 12:38 p.m. PST |
Green corn, green peaches, beef and molasses. This featured in the short-lived cookery series ‘Horatio Gates' Kitchen Nightmares'. |
| Virginia Tory | 31 Jan 2020 1:33 p.m. PST |
"Horatio Gates' Kitchen Nightmares'." Heheheheh. That's a good one. "We call it the Camden Platter…" |
| RNSulentic | 11 Feb 2020 9:44 p.m. PST |
The Hessian Jaeger Captain Johann Ewald recounts in his journal that during the week after the battle of Trenton, all he had to eat was "ship's biscuit and rum". |
| AICUSV | 18 Feb 2020 12:36 a.m. PST |
I've read a letter from a Union Officer (ACW) to his brother describing what he had in this "pantry", the letter was written in July from Virginia. Amoung the items listed was included ice.
You may find this of interest, it is an account of a British Officer being quarter in Philadelphia in 1777.
Elizabeth Drinker finally had to take in an officer. A Major Crammond who came to her door and was very considerate. He gave her time to think over the situation, nevertheless he pointed out that it would be necessary for her to take in someone and it might better be he than another. Mrs. Drinker appreciated the situation and Crammond moved in on December 30. On the whole their relations were cordial, although the major kept late hours, causing Mrs. Drinker some annoyance. Quartering an officer was not a simple matter of lodging one man. The officers traveled en troupe. With Major Crammond arrived three servants, three Hessians (not all of whom apparently remained in the house), three cows, two sheep, two turkeys, and several fowl. Every field officer had a sergeant guard at his residence. (The Pennsylvania Ledger/Journal of Elizabeth Drinker).
Maybe the cows are how they carried the butter? |
| Au pas de Charge | 20 Feb 2020 10:56 a.m. PST |
At the end of the Saratoga campaign, I understand that Gen. Burgoyne was seen salting his tricorne and asking a Hessian grenadier if fries came with it. |
| Tango01 | 20 Feb 2020 3:37 p.m. PST |
Thanks also…. Amicalement
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paints brigs for the British fleet.
