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Pioneer Recipes to Try In Your Homestead Today

15 Pioneer Recipes That Survived The Oregon Trail

Jumbo Cheesy Italian Meatballs. Caramel Pretzel Bread Pudding. Pumpkin Pie in a Sheet Pan. Bread Bowls 5 Ways. Chocolate Peanut Butter Pops. Provencal Cod and Potatoes. Egg-in-a-Heart and Heart Bacon. Comfort Food for Breakfast. Easy Comfort Food Recipes. Amy Thielen's Comfort Food Favorites. Comforting Diner Recipes from Amanda Freitag. Sunny's Easy Comfort Food Favorites. How to Make Michael Solomonov's Shakshouka. How to Boil Potatoes. All-Star Comfort Food Ingredients. Better on a Sheet Pan. How to Make Perfect French Toast. A Year of Pancakes.

These corn products offer essential vitamins. At all costs, however, avoid GMO corn. Look at your inventory of imported goods. Pioneers loved brown sugar, molasses, coffee, salt and spices. These imported goods were certainly treats, and for this reason are top priority items to stockpile.

Many of these products are not something homesteaders can grow in North America, and they simply won't be available for purchase. For this reason, it's important to stock up. Stock sugar in food grade bucket. Consider molasses as it can help you make your own BBQ sauce and more. Stock up on salt for preserving. Spice up your prepper's pantry with spices C offee. Coffee was important ti n survial. The pioneers who drank coffee were the ones to survive the mile journey!

Contaminated water brought water-borne disease of cholera with symptoms of high fever, vomiting and diarrhea. Pioneers did their best to prevent sickness by drinking coffee. It was the process of boiling water that helped purify the water! If no coffee was available, pioneers made a coffee-like substance from acorns, dandelion roots or chicory. During the civil war the soldiers made substitutions with cotton seed or peanuts.

Get a butter churn and some powdered milk. Pioneers brought with them a milking cow or two for fresh milk along the trails. They'd put the milk in the back of the wagon and allow the wagon to movement to churn the milk into butter. Right is a butter churn , so you can make butter yourself from powdered milk.

Your family will love the prepping upgrade of adding fresh butter to your meals. Other options for butter include canned butter or butter powder. Pioneer Lesson 10 Consider drying your meat and hunting. Meat spoiled quickly, so the settlers smoked, dried and salted the meat prior to leaving on their journey.

Not as tasty as beef jerky, because it tasted more along the lines of shoe leather, but it was nutritious just the same.

Pioneer Recipes to Try In Your Homestead Today

Pioneers hunted and trapped wild game venison and small animals squirrel, hare and in lean times mice to supplement the dried meats they hauled in their covered wagons. They hunted a variety of fowl from partridge and pigeons to geese and ducks. They also caught fish as they travelled rivers and lakes. They ate a lot of sowbelly, which is what we call bacon today. Beef Jerky is a versatile food: Stock dry fruits and forage.

15 Pioneer Recipes That Survived The Oregon Trail

Pioneers subsisted on mostly dried peaches and apples, but along the trail they also foraged for berries and dandelions. A pples were a staple and were routinely dried to last the Winter months. An apple peeler helped make the job easier. From apples came applesauce and apple butter. From dried apples came stewed apples and apple pasties small apple pies.

While nothing could be more American than Apple Pie, the pioneers actually loathed the thought of eating yet another bite of dried apple pie, especially towards the end of their journey. They would sing, "Spit in my ears and tell me lies, but give me no more dried apple pies! An industrial apple peeler will be useful if your property or neighboring ones have apples to harvest.

Pack the Skillet: American Pioneer Cooking - Kindle edition by Patricia B. Mitchell . Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Check these pioneer recipes handed down from generation to generation and Have a taste of centuries-old American history in these pioneer recipes! side of the pork meat and add the cure mix; Pack the pork meat in a tight barrel Melt a tablespoon of lard or bacon fat in a hot iron skillet; Wait for the.

Pack plenty of dried fruits in other varieties so as not to tire of them the way the pioneers did. Back home, the pioneers foraged for strawberries, blueberries and blackberries, which were all ideal for jams and jellies. Along the trail , pioneers gathered berries ; however these treats were few and far between. B lackberries were t reasured finds in the forests; however, the dangers were bears who were foraging for them as well!

They also found wild grapes, gooseberries, cranberries and salalberries for their pies. Blackberries and blueberries are a good foraging choice. F lowers are fruit in disguise , and a favored food to forage along the trails!

15 Pioneer Recipes That Survived The Oregon Trail

Fighting scurvy was an issue for pioneers , as they had a lack of fresh fruit and vegetables on their journey. Fresh greens, including dandelions provided healthy doses of calcium and iron. Dandelions also provide d the pioneers with folic acid, riboflavin, pyridoxine, niacin, and Vitamin E , along with the all important scurvy prev enting dose of V itamin C. Pioneers often tossed dandelions into soups and stews for flavorings.

Eat dandelion greens and dandelion roots and make them part of your preps! In addition to offering iron, protein, and calcium dandelions are loaded with antioxidants and minerals. Why wait until an apocalypse? Plum s sweetened many dishes. They brought sacks of sugar plums. Stewed prunes w e re also popular. Establish a root cellar. Back home, pioneers grew carrots, onions and potatoes and stored them in a root cellar.

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Along the trail the pioneers gathered herbs and roots and berries. Potatoes filled stew pots and soups. Eat potatoes and butter! A healthy diet of potatoes supplemented only with milk or butter, which have the two vitamins not in potatoes, vitamins A and D is all a human body needs to sustain proper nutrition. Preppers have three options: Buy freeze-dried and dehydrated potatoes. Dehydrate potatoes at home.

Learn how to distill and purify water. Water is the most important lesson of any survival skill overview. Often pioneers had no choice but to drink water made by human and animal waste. Coffee made it taste better. They could either drink foul water or die of dehydration, which wasn't much of a choice. They "cured" sickness and disease with peppermint, whisky and rum.

Vinegar was also a medicinal tonic to help ease their health woes. One in ten travelers died the journey. Clean water was hard to find and the pioneers often died of dehydration or the perils of bitter alkaline water too high ph , parasites in water and disease borne mosquitoes. Pioneers packed vinegar as a tonic. While it won't cure cholera or dysentery , vinegar has medicinal qualities and uses for preppers. Bring or store what you can, and barter for the rest. Know that your provisions are also bartering items!

Learn the art of bartering, so you can extend this resource. You see, pioneers filled their wagons with food and precious belongings. Some even brought pianos! The prairies were littered with these treasures and heirlooms as they soon realized that the weight was too much for the oxen to bear. Since the pioneers didn't have much money, they bartered quite a bit back home, trading their extra crops for goods. Pioneers put their skills to use with Native Americans who welcomed them along the Oregon trail.

They sometimes traded their wares for food. A popular trade for their wares, such as a mirror or a knife, was dried meat,or acorn bread baked with crickets. Of most value to pioneers items not up for barter included: W eapons, including a rifle, shotgun or pistol. A Colt r evolver and a Winchester were customary possessions.

Knives, including a good hunting knife , a butcher knife, a skinning knife, and a small antique paring knife. Farm implements taken on the trail included a plow, shovel, scythe, rake, and a hoe. Carpentry tools, s uch as a broad axe, a mallet, and a saw. Seeds for corn, wheat and other crops. Your bugout bag should be around a third of your weight. If you have the luxury of transportation, don't over pack. Food and water should be your top priority.

Whatever supplies you don't have and can't barter, make your own or make do without. If you sew, then sew your own clothes and even menstrual pads. The following are some pioneer created items you can learn to make: While men and boys often did the sheep shearing, the woman washed the wool and spent hours carding, spinning, dying, making cloth, then fashioning the wool into garments.

Tallow lard or rendered fat from a hog created the basis of pioneer candles and then sometimes the drippings from these candles would be recycled into creating soaps. Pioneers also sometimes made candles from beeswax. Here's h ow to make candles from Tallow. H eres' how to make more sophisticated hand dipped beeswax candles.

Before they left on their journey, pioneers made soap from wood ashes a homemade charcoal , lard animal fat from cattle, sheep and hogs , and lye water. Learn the art of pioneer soapmaking. When it comes to provisions for food, preppers and pioneers have lots in common.

Advanced preppers who are homesteaders are much like the pioneers who grew their own fruits and root vegetables mostly carrots, onions and potatoes. They farmed their own grains mostly corn, oats and wheat. They raised pigs as they enjoyed salt pork and it preserved well. They kept chickens, ducks and rabbits, and ranched cows and goats for meat and dairy. Pioneers also hunted and foraged for herbs, berries and roots. Drying and cellaring these foods helped keep them through the Winter months. As a prepper, you may have a pantry of similar provisions.

You may like to reference our modern day provision list of 37 shelf stable foods to hoard to see how your supplies stack up. Press your own cooking oil: Pioneer style Dutch oven.