Salt Pork Stew - Campfire Survival Food

The Voyageurs were travel hardened men. They were the Long-Haul Truckers of their time period, transporting goods over of an area of 1,000 miles by boat and canoe. This fries pea and salt pork stew is a food that fueled their travels for nearly 150 years.

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[earthknight]

I grew up with my mom making a very similar dish, without the biscuits (we'd have bread with it) and usually with garlic in it too. I still make it periodically, and yes, I generally make enough that there are lots of leftovers and I'll often eat it cold as a quick something when I don't feel like heating things up. It's tasty, easy, and filling.

[daniellanctot]

In traditional French-Canadian cuisine: We still relish a very similar looking and similarly made kind of split-pea soup; even though it is now made with fresh ham or bacon, instead of salted pork, and adds a few luxuries like a bit of carrots, celery and/or onions (Recipes vary from Family to Family, of course!).... A delicious appetizer like our Grand-Mammies use to make all the time!

[CmdrPinkiePie]

“Québécoise rurale” here. My grandma who grew up in the 1930s still ate that food in her late days because she loved it as a kid. Her own grandma (who herself used to eat it in the 1800s) made it for her. Peas and pork (including bacon) are of course used for split pea soup; a favourite of older rural Quebecers.

[trinawhitener]

It looks good and I’d eat it! Any time you’ve been out on the water all day, whether for work or for fun, hot food always tastes AMAZING! That stew looks comforting and hearty.

[Vulkanprimarch]

Honestly sometimes you just have that itch, to listen to James Townsends soothing voice as he teaches you about the history of the north american frontier!

[olddawgdreaming]

Great video Jon, really enjoyed all the filming of the camp settings and river boating and the food coverage as well. Awesome job. Fred.

[Blrtech]

Jon, This Was Amazing and Thanks for the History/Cooking Lesson!

[papabearpaw]

My father's side is french Acadian, and I remember my grandmothers pea soup, and I'm still lucky to taste my mothers pea soup, and my kids get those memories as well. Mine's alright. 😉

[DeeDee-pwpm]

I love pea soup, so i'd enjoy this.
Can always consider adding a wild root vegetable, or some edible leafy greens if one can find them.

[carocjdl]

This is what is called split pea soup. One of my favorite hearty soups.

[TheNewMediaoftheDawn]

That’s actually a complete meal, plus they would occasionally hunt, fish, and harvest some wild berries, greens and other stuff, they did it for a reason…

[josephbenson]

Iook and kinda think, split pea soup.

When I was in grad school, nearby in Muncie, I used to make pea soup with dried, shredded pork from the Asian grocery and id chop up one potato real fine which would thicken it. (I always added onion, but otherwise little to nothing else.). It looked similar, but I kept it soup-like.

[mathtonight]

This is the kind of channel that is filmed in the summer, and watched in the winter. Nevertheless, I thank you for putting out videos for every season!

[megagamer]

That salted pork looks particularly good.

[weston]

I ate a dish very similar to this growing up.

[KurtisRader]

The recipe described early in the video isn't all that different from the split pea soup I make today. Granted, I use yukon gold or red skin wax potatoes rather than ship biscuits, ham hock rather than salted pork, and I include a couple of carrots. But fundamentally it's the same thing. While I love home made split pea soup I certainly wouldn't want to eat it every day for many weeks.

[adib]

I am wondering if this is the origins of Pea and Ham soup which has been a staple tinned soup here in the UK?

[paulredinger]

You would think they’d of traded foods with the Indians, hunted, and foraged while travelling too.

[Huyana]

What's with the hat bro! Ha-ha! I love your channel!

[kirkstinson]

Pea soup. Day in and day out. Pea soup. I think I know where the stories of the crazy French trapper comes