What type of food would people eat for the holidays during the Civil War era?
I have a project for my AP class and its a cultural awareness…I am a team captain and I have to look up what kind of food was eaten by people living in the Civil War era around the holiday time…All foods have to have a reason as to why they were eaten for the holiday….can you please help me??
Actually, it was pretty much what you and I would eat today…with some major considerations in the southern regions as the war ground on and deprived so many of even the bare essentials. A typical Thanksgiving feast would include not only turkey and all the trimmings, but veal, mutton, pork, venison, a variety of other fowl, lamb, a variety of cheeses, and a surprisingly wide variety of desserts.
Such things as “forcemeat”, unfamiliar to us today, were actually stuffings made of breadcrumbs, nuts and things like chicken hearts, gizzards and livers all ground up together and cooked before being used to stuff the birds.
Here’s a couple book titles for ya: Civil War Recipes by Lily May and John Spaulding, University of Kentucky Press 1999 ISBN 0-8131-2082-9 and A Taste For War, the culinary history of the Blue and the Grey by William C. Davis, Stackpole Books 2003 ISBN 0-8117-0018-6 Those of us who re-enact the American Civil War try to be authentic as possible, hence the interest in such books. The ISBN numbers will help your local bookstore find you a copy; they will probably have to order them for you – but they’re well worth the cost…and if you’re into this sort of thing, a fascinating read. Yeah, some of your contemporaries will raise an eyebrow, but to heck with ‘em – and if you can find copies to borrow at your local library, more power to ya!
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