Using traveller's diaries, letters, newspaper advertisements and 19th-century cookbooks, Williams recreates the highs and lows of cooking and eating on the Oregon Trail. Recreating all phases of the journey, she shows how supplies were selected in the beginning and used up on the way.
Using traveller's diaries, letters, newspaper advertisements and 19th-century cookbooks, Williams recreates the highs and lows of cooking and eating o...
Pioneer temperaments, Jacqueline Williams shows, were greatly influenced by that which was stewable, bakable, broilable, and boilable. Using travelers' diaries, letters, newspaper advertisements, and nineteenth-century cookbooks, Williams re-creates the highs and lows of cooking and eating on the Oregon Trail. She investigates the mundane--biscuits and bacon, mush and coffee--as well as the unexpected--carbonated soda made from bubbling spring water; ice cream created from milk, snow, and peppermint; fresh fruits and vegetables. Understanding what and how the pioneers ate, Williams...
Pioneer temperaments, Jacqueline Williams shows, were greatly influenced by that which was stewable, bakable, broilable, and boilable. Using travelers...
