Historic Trail Food for Hiking

I cook two portable foods that would even work with prepping today: beef pocket soup and corn flour rockahominy. Through the lens of William Byrd II, we look at combining what he called "the essence of meat" and the "essence of bread" for a delicious and filling early form of a dehydrated camping food.
For detailed instructions on making the pocket soup, please see the link to Townsends Pocket Soup video: • Easiest Way to Make Po...
The quote from William Byrd is read by William Byrd IV, a descendent and namesake of the original. Many thanks to him for his time.
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[@ZenSpider40]

Stuck in a Canadian city, channels like yours , the Townsends , folk firearms collective and I love Muzzleloading are a Godsend. Thank you.

[@ohiorusty4982]

I take the parched corn grind it to a coarse flour and mix that with mushroom ketchup. It is an excellent addition to what you are eating. The indians took ground parched corn, boiled it in water and drank it as a tea. I like to drink the tea, then using the moist parched corn flour and mix that with barley flour to make biscuits. Wheat flour was sold for money so using the cheaper barley and ground into a flour by farmers mixed with the parched corn flour make an excellent servant bread to eat with your boil'd meat or soups.

[@thedeerskindiary]

That sounds delicious.

[@ohiorusty4982]

Barley flour - servant bread. Barley would have been a family staple.

[@ohiorusty4982]

The indians used to drink 'corn tea'. Toasted and ground corn steeped in water. Quite tasty and the corn makes adds a sweetness to the tea.. When I finish my tea, I add a bit of flour to the wet corn, make them into small biscuits and cook them over the fire.

[@thedeerskindiary]

Interesting!

[@Wolfram762]

Its so cool to see your kids enjoying the type of life our ancestors did! Absolutely great content brother!!

[@thedeerskindiary]

Thank you so much! I appreciate it.

[@CaptRons18thcentury]

great video... thanks for the information...

[@jkbaggett]

My Dad just started harvesting his corn, I’m going to snag some for roasting to try this out in the fall. Great stuff.

[@thedeerskindiary]

I want to know how it turns out!

[@markmorse9445]

Thanks for spending the time to make this

[@thedeerskindiary]

Thanks for your support Mark.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Fast food of the18th century… definitely going to give it a try.

[@BrahT-qo8ii]

I make Pemican and mix it with corn meal and make a mush.

[@thedeerskindiary]

That sounds great.

[@outdoorlife5396]

The more I look at these pioneer channels, I really bet feast like Christmas etc were extra special.

[@thedeerskindiary]

Yes absolutely. I realize that I take a lot of simple things for granted today.

[@kevincrenshaw3093]

Great video! I'm a big fan of pinole and atole. It's amazing how many historic corn based foods are still regularly consumed south of the border.

[@thedeerskindiary]

Great point!

[@briansherrillruralliving9708]

Good info! I need to try this

[@ashleyanderson2859]

Great information and thank you for highlighting a native food staple.

[@timber123doddle]

Well done,sir.

[@thedeerskindiary]

Thank you my friend.

[@timber123doddle]

Do you have anything on pickled beef? Or any other ways to carry beef on the trail other then jerk?

[@dwarden7829]

Great video, brother! Can't wait to try it, myself!

[@thedeerskindiary]

Thank you!

[@2gpowell]

Enjoyed the video. Thanks for putting this together.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

And yet another great episode ,l. Keep them coming, Anthony!

[@thedeerskindiary]

Thank you my friend.

[@ILoveMuzzleloading]

Fantastic! Definitely something I need to try.

[@ParaskeviPrice]

Thank you for the informative video!

[@thedeerskindiary]

I’m glad you enjoyed it!

[@Hidetannerslife]

Hello, great video.
Which William Byrd II book are you quoting from? TY

[@thedeerskindiary]

The History of the Dividing Line as I recall.

[@williamarmstrong4177]

Well done.

[@davidveale]

Very well done! BTW -- field corn (NOT sweet corn, which is entirely different) is easily grown in a small garden - I've grown three varieties (Henry Moore, Krugs, and an Italian flint variety). Fun to make hominy (you can use wood ash lye, or purchase pickling lime), and I'll definitely try this with it as well!
Fantastic video btw -- both in content and sound/videography/editing!

[@thedeerskindiary]

Thank you so much for the kind words and support. I’ll have to try corn again this year in the garden if I can.

[@davidveale]

@@thedeerskindiary - BTW -- if you grow field corn, don't grow sweet corn near it -- they will cross pollinate and the kernels of each will pick up traits from the other (i.e. crunchy hard sweet corn, and soft, sweet field corn)

[@jglenn7370]

Where'd you find the little kettle? If ya don mind me asking...

[@thedeerskindiary]

This one came from West Historical. I don’t think they are around anymore though unfortunately.