[Sca-cooks] Period Field Rations

[david friedman]

>    I have a question . . . What can we document as being actual field rations
>in period? Dried meats, sausages, hard cheeses, parched grains, journey cakes
>/ breads of various types would have been carried along,
>supplemented with whatever
>they could obtain by foraging. I realize that Kings & Nobles had a
>higher living
>standard in the field than the average levy, but when things got tough, they
>didn't eat all that much better, I suspect.
>    I'm thinking of doing a field ration package for Pennsic that would be as
>documentable as possible while still being palatable. Input?
>
>    Sieggy
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The one thing that occurs to me is Froissart's mention of Scottish
troops carrying a bag of oat meal and using it to make oat cakes. My
conjectural reconstruction is in the Miscellany.

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