[Sca-cooks] Period Field Rations

[johnna holloway]

I would think from a professional point of view you are going to
have to tackle this by doing a military, conduct of war and warfare study.
That means going to the military sources and looking there.
A lot has been done military provsioning with various wars.
Certainly US Civil War and
Revolutionary War have been done and others have been studied as well.
See:
http://nimbus.ocis.temple.edu/~rkarras/warbib.htm
THE CONDUCT OF WARFARE IN THE MIDDLE AGES, 400-1500:
 AN INTRODUCTORY SURVEY
 OF SECONDARY WORKS IN ENGLISH.  by PAUL V. WALSH

The major medieval encyclopedias have articles and bibliographies
and would offer places to start. I would also check out the various
dissertation indexes. If you have access to a university library, I'd
start there. H-Net and ORBis would also be good to look at.
http://orb.rhodes.edu/

Johnnae llyn Lewis   Johnna Holloway

Siegfried wrote:

>    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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