SC - Stopping Bities...

[James F. Johnson]

Well see now, here comes one of the bad guys again (Puck?  A bad guy for
advocating the use of period foods?  Whodathunkit?) but there is a quite
period solution to this problem that would allow you to serve pork pies
quite easily in any quantity over any length of time.  Where I grew up they
were called country hams, where I am they are called Smithfield hams, and in
general, and period, its plain old salted pork.  Keeps quite well, the salt
boils out so its not excessive, though I hear a lot of people espousing the
feeding of lotsa salt to the fighters (which goes against every bit of my
training, but who the heck do the Navy Steam Engineers think they are
anyway?) and can be used a little at a time without spoiling.

regards, Puck

> >  (Yer Excellency Gunthar, I don't think that pork pies work well when
> >they have to be transported a day and a half to a war.  Not when you need
> >enough to feed eighty people for four days.