Hi, out there I am a fresh fish, please be kind

camp_cook · #1 10-21-2003, 06:37 PM

Hi, I have been looking at this site for a little while, and thought you all sounded like some neat guys. I will be asking from time to time about some hints about cooking and what goes good with you all at re-enactments. I would like to know where I can find a camp oven, so I can make pies and bread if you please, thank you.
Your humble servant and stew burner
John

#2 10-21-2003, 08:39 PM

Welcome John,

Welcome to the forum. I hope you enjoy it here as much as I do. I'm sorry but culinary endeavors from the 19th century is not my forte. Although I am a pretty fair cook. Yet I feel supremely confident someone here will know. They seem to know everything else.

Again, Welcome

YMOS
tommy

gary · #3 10-21-2003, 10:22 PM

Welcome aboard Pard!

Can't help you with cooking advice but I can tell you how to loot a place and tear it apart. I'm a natural bummer.

rivrrat · #4 10-22-2003, 07:25 AM

welcome,
Here in the Trans-Mississippi, we usually ate what ever the Federals cooked just before we raided.

johan_steele · #5 10-22-2003, 07:35 AM

What is your unit?

My wife is the company cook & I'm not too bad a hand myself. My wifes oven is a small dutch oven & a bed of coals.

Believe it or not you can pick up a small Dutch oven for around $25 at Cabella's. Make certain you get the kind w/ legs & a flat top as that is the appropriate type for use in a camp fire.

Ahhh there is nothing quite like a fresh bayth of scalloped tomatoes to go w/ your salt pork & hard tack! Or better still fresh sourdough bread!

Welcome aboard.

hoosier · #6 10-22-2003, 12:07 PM

Camp Cook,

I'm afraid I can't offer you many good tips on cooking. On a good day, I can boil water, and that's about the extent of my culinary expertise.

Glad to have you joining us on the website, anyway, and hope to hear more from you in the future.

blue_zouave · #7 10-22-2003, 04:15 PM

Camp Cook, here is a link to a supplier for camp stoves, with reflector oven available. http://www.frostriver.com/stoves/stoves_menu.html

I've done a bit of camp cooking myself but haven't done Dutch oven cooking.

Zou

camp_cook · #8 10-22-2003, 07:06 PM

Well! I want to thank you for the very warm welcome.
I guess I should tell you a little about myself. I am an ex-navy cook that learned in class " A " school that standardized recipes came into being in the war of southern indpendents. So I like cooking for a large group, I am told that I make to much when I do cook. I got started in re-enacting by my girlfriend and a $100.00 Zouave gun. I thought the gun looked lonesome so I made a uniform for it. My girlfriend did some work for My Old Kentucky Home State Park as a hostess. So she said way don't we do civil war re-enactments, and the rest is history. So we started to seach for a group to fall in with, but so far no luck. One group would not let me be a cook and would not let me bring the love of my life with me. The other was so unsafe that I went running away. No drill, unclean weapons, discharging a 120 grains of powder over the tents, and alway bumming I couldn't deel with it. So my love and I are calling oursevies the Kentucky Indepentdent. I do make most all my gear and uniform and my love dress. I also try to spend 80% of my time doing reseacher on Kentucky CW unites so I can do a better empression. Well! thank you again and keep your powder dry and keep head held high with pride for what you do.
The camp cook
John F. Wiedeburg}}}

mobile_96 · #9 10-22-2003, 07:28 PM

John,
Is this the "My Old Kentucky Home State Park" at Bardstown?
I visited the Civil War Museum in Bardstown this past Sunday afternoon, on my way to Perryville. A really great Museum that contains items seldom seen elsewhere. If anyone is in the area the visit is more than worth the cost and time.
Welcome to the group!
Chuck in Il.

johan_steele · #10 10-22-2003, 07:47 PM

I might suggest you check out some of the messes available over on Authentic Campaigner, it sounds to me like you would make a good "progressive" reenactor. It's difficult finding a family friendly unit, there aren't alot of them out there. I lucked out and stumbled into one. You might also look into falling in w/ a civilian reenactment group, there just aren't enough civilians...

Another option is the SUCV, often they are indirectly connected to reenactment units.

It would appear that we have a lot in common... both have better halves that are better looking than we are. And we both enjoy a culinary masterpiece when we stumble across them... though my wife makes all of those in this family.

Welcome aboard and good luck.