Feeding the Expedition I - Salt Pork
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2024
- How do you feed all of the hardworking soldiers of the Expedition? What kind of food would you be willing to eat when you were very hungry?
Site Interpreter Ben will walk us through one of the standard ration elements - salt pork. While incredibly salt and probably not the best tasting, it was a reliable store to draw from when wild game was hard to find.
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The sailing ships of old - which had no refrigeration to speak of - also relied on barrels and barrels of salt pork and beef to feed the crew with. The term "old salt" to refer to an experienced sailor probably has to do with the salinity of the oceans on which they sailed, but I also like to think it has at least a little to do with the steady consumption of salted pork and beef in their diet. Anyway, great video and very informative. Thanks for the upload.
You're an excellent orator. You hold attention like a magnet. Keep it up!
Thanks! We are hoping to get started on some new videos later this spring.
His oral skills are legendary.
There's still a kind of salt cured pork at many stores that is basically the exact same as the old stuff except it has just enough salt to preserve it but not so much you have to pre-soak it to make it palatable. On occasion i'll buy it to make lobscouse.
Excellent video. I've made my own salt pork before, and it was excellent to cook with. I love it with collard greens or butter beans. I've not experimented with using salt pork as a field provision, but if I had to, I would trust it -- as long as I had packed it myself!
There were times when soldiers were so desperately hungry and so exhausted that they would simply eat the salt pork as it was -- no preparation whatsoever. (For this reason, salt pork, which was tender, was preferred over tough salt beef.)
Quite a few accounts of starving soldiers eating it raw.bleh. Can't imagine being this hungry.😊
Can this method be used to preserve chicken and Turkey as well? Could you say throw together a mix of whatever, like rabbit, pork, raccoon, and Turkey if that’s what you had?
I trust this man on the topic of salted pork.
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The man clearly knows his pork
Excellent video! Love seeing historic videos on salt pork!
I love salt pork, hard to get now.
In Jamaica this salted pork is still eaten today but pig tail is whats most salted. They have a popular dish called stew peas similiar to Red beans and rice. In America you can find this salted pork in Ethic supermarkets. But its in 5 gallon buckets.
As an Australian Teen with almost no interest in history or cooking, I found this to be extremely interesting and well put together! Watched it through to the end.
Thanks! Glad it connected with you!
As a starving Ethiopian child, I find this video to be exciting and torturous, simultaneously.
Fascinating .
bro you should have so many more subscriber seriously under rated good video and loved every min of it
Thank you so much! Our hope is that everyone can be both entertained and learn something from each video.
Très intéressant.
We need to get you on Townsends.
Made salt pork in January had it with green pea soup at Ft deChart this last weekend. I found it pretty tasty
Ships bed, ground to powder, a slab of salt pork that’s been soaked in fresh water for two or three hours, a bit of pepper and mustard seed then fried in hot grease, goood dinner
Sounds like good stuff!
"Ships bed"?
@@MichaelKingsfordGray sorry, sloppy typing on phone, ships bread, hard tack
@@jeffreyrobinson3555 Ah! Thanks.
I wondered about adding hammocks to the mixture.
Invite Townsend over for a collab videos ,he has done all the recipes there that LC and other explorers had with thwm.
😳 wow, the shelf life of that style packing is just amazing! Although yes, would want to eat a pork chop packed like that 🤣🤣🤣 but in a stew or other dish the extra seasoning with salt would definitely not be needed……🤔maybe a lot of extra pepper or Tabasco
I have fat back and bell down in salt now . Have peas soup on the stove
Is there still water in the barrel when you open it months later?
I don't see what's so terrible about portable soup. It was just the precursor to modern soup stock cubes.
its cooked for so long that it has little to no nutritonal value. Its just a morale booster becuase you add that with weeds and clovers and you have "food" to eat
It was packed in lead tubes ......
We want to try replicating it at some point. I don't know how bad it was myself, but in the journals the soldiers ask to hunt for fresh meat instead of the portable soup.
Could have just used salted pork pieces as bait for larger game!
Out in the wilderness during those early years, would not have been long until a grizzly or black bear had come along.
Does the brine dry out? Do you have to keep the pork submerged? Can you take a piece of salted pork, throw it in a sack and carry if for several days? I'd love to try and make some but I have questions.....
"Can you take a piece of salted pork, throw it in a sack and carry if for several days?"
Fry it first then it will definitely last for several days. Boil it in soup because any other recipe will be too salty.
Given the salt content, they may have just carried it around and eaten it, but I don't know how well it actually keeps. I know that Townsends did a great video on how to make your own salt pork, I would recommend checking that out if you're curious to try for yourself. th-cam.com/video/ZdmPIpQZPRg/w-d-xo.html
I always thought it was just Lewis, Clark and the Indian girl. I didn't know they had a crew of men with them.
Salted anything does wonders for the heart and blood pressure!!
If you're doing real work, you need plenty of salt or you'll get sick.
Is that Chum Lee? 🤔
SALTED POOORK?!?
And smoking!!!
It’s particularly good
Wouldn’t the forest be loaded with game and the river full of fish.
The soldiers usually preferred hunting game or fishing for their food, but this was a multi-year journey. There were times when the weather was bad, the game had migrated into other areas, and sometimes there was just poor luck hunting. Even if you brought in some smaller meat for your meal, they were feeding close to fifty people at the start of the Expedition. Salted pork, portable soup, and other packaged foods allowed the Expedition to account for days with no fresh meat and keep the calories up for the hard working soldiers.
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No wonder people didn't live very long in the olden days lol