It’s been a crazy year. I think we can all agree there. By early autumn, I started wondering how to revive the Civil War Cooking series for the week of Thanksgiving. (I missed last year due to moving.) In need of a creative project and needing to spice up my typical pandemic season, eat-at-home-all-the-time options, I felt inspired to compile lists of historical menus and recreate them.
But it had to be more than hardtack, saltpork/bacon, or coffee! Fortunately, time was on my side, and by the end of October, I had stockpiled five historical meal lists and one special dessert to recreate. Camping and open fire cooking or creating in a historic kitchen just wasn’t going to work this year, so I headed into the modern kitchen armed with some historic menus from letters and diaries, a few helpful hints, and some years of cooking experience to see if the taste of the past could be recreated under these circumstances… Continue reading
