Post by Ground Sleeper on Feb 24, 2009 10:19:24 GMT -5
If anyone has seen the Kens Burns Civil War series, you may remember Shelby Foote telling a story about confederates making sloosh. Sloosh was what Confederates ate a lot of the time, basically its simple you fry bacon, make a mixture of cornmeal, flower and water, coat it in the bacon grease, wrap it around ta ram rod and cook it over the fire. Now after trying this many times in the field i couldn't get it to stick on the ram rod very well. So i found a different way of doing it from another re-enactor when i was at Chancellorsville last year.
First you need
1 Utensile, could be a spoon,fork,flipper, a etc.
1 mucket
1Canteen half or fry pan
plate
Water
cornmeal
Flour
bacon
First fry off the bacon, and cook it good, get as much of the grease out of it as you can. You want to use a nice piece of slab bacon that is smoked but not seasoned. By the bacon being smoked it will last over the weekend with out being kept cold.
remove the Bacon form the Pan and place on plate or eat it or whatever.
Then in your mucket, mixes roughly equal parts flour and cornmeal and then add enough water to make it into a sticky dough. Role the dough into balls and place in the bacon grease left in you fry pan or canteen half. Role the balled dough in the grease to evenly coat it and then flatten them out and cook till done.
And there you go Sloosh. And you can do that right out of your haversack, all i do is before i leave for an event i mix the flour and cornmeal together in a cotton bag. and then its all ready to go.
happy Campaigning
Ground Sleeper
First you need
1 Utensile, could be a spoon,fork,flipper, a etc.
1 mucket
1Canteen half or fry pan
plate
Water
cornmeal
Flour
bacon
First fry off the bacon, and cook it good, get as much of the grease out of it as you can. You want to use a nice piece of slab bacon that is smoked but not seasoned. By the bacon being smoked it will last over the weekend with out being kept cold.
remove the Bacon form the Pan and place on plate or eat it or whatever.
Then in your mucket, mixes roughly equal parts flour and cornmeal and then add enough water to make it into a sticky dough. Role the dough into balls and place in the bacon grease left in you fry pan or canteen half. Role the balled dough in the grease to evenly coat it and then flatten them out and cook till done.
And there you go Sloosh. And you can do that right out of your haversack, all i do is before i leave for an event i mix the flour and cornmeal together in a cotton bag. and then its all ready to go.
happy Campaigning
Ground Sleeper