NUTR 295 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cornbread, Okra, Baking Powder
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Overview: army, quartermaster/commissary, foraging, sutlers (merchants, communities north and south, commissions and societies, families. Typical union army rations: hartack biscuits, or flour or soft bread or cornmeal, hard crackers. Lard: baking powder c, sugar or molasses, coffee f, desiccated vegetables. Beef or dried/salted meat (or mutton, pork, bacon, fish as available: or beans, rice, hominy, canned or fresh if available. Confederate camp creations: confederate stew beef and potatoes cooked in a griddle cake batter, cush beef fried in bacon grease with crumbled cornbread or hardtack stirred into a hash, parched corn (similar to popcorn) Two thirds of civil war deaths were the result of disease. Challenges to safe/nutritious food: proper instructions didn"t always reach company cooks and individual soldiers b, unsanitary conditions and abundance of contaminated food and water d. Limited availability, transport, delivery of fresh fruits and vegetables.