Preserved Foods in the Old West

Preserving Food in the Old West.

Music: Artist: Nat Keefe & Hot Buttered Rum
Title: Arkansas Traveler

“The Pirate King” by Untold Journey
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[ArizonaGhostriders]

Thumbs down are jealous of quality jerky.

[MomentsInTrading]

After reading a couple of books on the Civil War, I can tell that just getting a decent meal each day seemed to be the underlying challenge for most people.

[ahhamartin]

The shelf life of some foods of the era is surprising. Just 20 years ago, a civil war "gunboat" (actually a barge) was raised in my town. After 140 years in the Tennessee River, the hardtack had turned black, but you could still see the holes in it. It wasn't edible, but it really wasn't when it was new either.

[classicgunstoday]

My wife spent a few years of her childhood in the mid 1980s on the Honduran “frontier” (jungle) in the middle of nowhere. They had a generator for the house and a freezer, but her dad would hunt so much deer meat that her mom would run out of room and ended up preserving much of it in salt.

[bigblue]

It makes you wonder how we would have faired without the humble tin can.

[dukefanshawe]

Funny how when I travel I have a knife, beef Jerky, candy, cliff bars or granola bars, water, a sleeping bag or blankets and a suitcase or back pack of stuff. We haven't changed just goten lazy.

[ThemissouriTraveler]

Even today, in the ozarks people still use "spring houses' to keep food cool all year, canning is a absolute staple as well.

[Dark-Rose-]

Good, to talk about food 🍲 and recipes out of the good old Western Era. Looks great. As always, great presentation dear Santee. Whatever, like you Good afternoon 🐞🐞 Wonderful ☺ peaceful and blessed weekend. Love 💟 and Light 🕯 Bine. 💫🐝

[infamousgamer]

Such a good feeling when Santee says "but it's been a while" and you remember watching the original video on release

[HomesteadTessie]

YES YES YES I been waiting for this !! I am actually watching it twice !!saving it in my favorites

[evanlothrop]

I really do think this video will age well!

[UncleDanBand]

Morning Santee! Me and my partner in crime Uncle Don practice the old preserving ways. We probably run 300-500 pounds of Wild Texas Pork through our smokehouse every fall. Mostly link sausage but sometimes we will do a ham. Now we will vacuum seal and freeze but, it will last a long time at room temperature. The old-timers would say....24 hours of smoke good for 7 days. 48 hours of smoke good for 2 weeks or one day one week. Two days two weeks.

[NGMonocrom]

Ah, food! A favorite subject of mine too.
There's a Colonial America channel on YT that showed a video on how to make soup into a flexible solid material that could be cut off into small pieces and transported to be liquified again and eaten later. Portable soup. Long before the days of instant cup-o-noodle.

[markkumyllykoski]

The ingenuity of the past never ceases to amaze me, even if it's just about food preservation. This is why I like reading about history.

[orionbennett]

My mother, when I was a youngin ... took beef, cut it into 1" cubes ... and strung it on kite string ... after she marinated it in Worcestershire sauce, and rolled the cubes in crushed black peppercorns ... then hung that string, on the clothesline out in the backyard, during the Arizona summers. I don't remember how long she left it there, but when it was dried, it was the best tasting beef jerky you could imagine. 1" cubes, so you would just bite off a chunk off the cube, and start chewing. There is obviously salt in the Worcestershire sauce ... but what kept the flies from landing on it, was the coating of black pepper. We never got sick from it ... and had a great protein summer snack.

[pamelabrida]

Hi Santee! I remember reading in "Little House In The Big Woods" how Pa Ingalls would catch a wagon load of fish from Lake Pepin, Wisconsin and preserve the raw cleaned fish by packing it down in salt inside a wooden barrel. They also used a hollowed out tree to smoke hog meat or game like deer, etc. Meanwhile, Ma Ingalls picked wild berries and other fruit to make jelly or preserves or she would dry them in the hot sun under a cloth to be used in the wintertime when there was no fresh fruit available. Pretty interesting ways to survive back in the days of no refrigeration! I can only imagine how they coped without air conditioning! Thanks for another great video. Take care & God bless!

[lloydgaroutte]

And yet again, a great way to start the weekend! Thanks Santee!

[timgladden]

Well done. That will make a well preserved video. See you next weekend.

[dr.froghopper]

Heck, I dehydrate almost everything I grow these days. Dry stuff lasts a very long time.

[bewarethebear]

I've been meaning to ask about jerky and travel food, so thank you for this!