I made Sloosh

[kepi]

I made Sloosh

The first thing I learned is that cooking it on a wooden stick only creates a small torch as the fat from the sloosh gets into the wood. I also may have had it too close to the fire.

I cooked the second batch on a metal rod and it came out nicely. The rod gets hot and helps cook the interior parts of the sloosh. It tastes like bacon-flavored cornbread.

It's not something I would want every day, but I can see how it would fortify solders for a long march or a cold night.

I may need to go to the hospital and have my arteries checked.

 

[LoriAnn]

It tastes like bacon-flavored cornbread.

Bacon-flavored cornbread + afternoon nap with a favorite quilt = Best Saturday ever.

Sorry. I'm fantasizing.

 

[diane]

That's great! Not a bad dish, then. But now we know why they cooked it using their bayonets!

Are you going to try skillygalee?

 

[donna]

Sounds like turned out good. I am glad you tried it. Maybe try other authentic dishes.

 

[Carronade]

The first thing I learned is that cooking it on a wooden stick only creates a small torch as the fat from the sloosh gets into the wood. I also may have had it too close to the fire.

You've probably re-enacted the experience of the first Civil War soldier who cooked sloosh

 

[kepi]

Sounds like turned out good. I am glad you tried it. Maybe try other authentic dishes.

I'm going to try biscuits next.

 

[kepi]

You've probably re-enacted the experience of the first Civil War soldier who cooked sloosh

I can visualize men clad in butternut wool frantically waving their evening meal around on a rapidly vanishing stick in a hopeless attempt to save it from turning to ash.

I'm a living historian.

 

[kepi]

That's great! Not a bad dish, then. But now we know why they cooked it using their bayonets!

Are you going to try skillygalee?

Looks interesting...
https://loweryleather.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/civil-war-recipe-union-skillygalee/

 

[donna]

Some other recipes from the army for you to think about:

Ashcakes, baked beans, hardtack pudding hell fire stew, lobscouse and milk toast. I think I have posted recipes but may start another thread with them.

 

[kepi]

Some other recipes from the army for you to think about:

Ashcakes, baked beans, hardtack pudding hell fire stew, lobscouse and milk toast. I think I have posted recipes but may start another thread with them.

I have to get this sloosh out of my system first. This may take a while.

 

[MNTom]

I was at the grocery store the other day and bought a brick of salt pork. Today I sliced it up and fried it, then, remembering Shelby Foote's story about sloosh on Ken Burn's documentary, I threw some cornmeal and water in the grease and attempted a sloosh-like concoction. Lacking a fire, I just fried it like a pancake on the stove. The way I made it was too crumbly to be a dough, but it tasted quite good. I'll have to experiment further.