SC - Early British food

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From: "James Prescott" <prescotj at telusplanet.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2001 1:44 PM
Subject: Re: SC - kind of icky - Little Mites in Flour Products -


>
> During the middle part of the voyage the sailors would rap the
> biscuits sharply on the table to dislodge any weevils, and
> then eat the resulting 'protein-reduced' biscuits.
>
This reminds me of a common problem/story about the Amer. Civil War.
The hard tack weevils were quite present on both sides during the war. The
soldiers solution was to break up the 'tack and dump the pieces into a cup
of coffee, then skim the dead bugs floating on top off.

Beatrix of Tanet