Will Carry
First Sergeant
- Joined
- Jun 1, 2015
- Location
- The Tar Heel State.
How soldiers lived between battles has always interested me. This is from "A History of Lumsden's Battery. CSA"
Known as Biled Cat to those who fit for the South.
Take biscuit dough and roll it out into a sheet 1/4" thick. Spread with stewed apples or peaches. Season with sugar, spice and everything nice then roll it up into a long roll, then roll the roll up into a clean towel or potato sack, tied up and dropped into a pot of boiling water until done. When done unwrap it from the cloth and cut into sections 1/2" thick and deluge with butter and sugar.
At one time the Confederate government experimented with a mixture of cowpea flour and wheat flour, for making a nourishing hard tack.....but most men's teeth were not able to grind it. It took a hatchet or an ax to break them up and the pieces resembled flint rock.
Known as Biled Cat to those who fit for the South.
Take biscuit dough and roll it out into a sheet 1/4" thick. Spread with stewed apples or peaches. Season with sugar, spice and everything nice then roll it up into a long roll, then roll the roll up into a clean towel or potato sack, tied up and dropped into a pot of boiling water until done. When done unwrap it from the cloth and cut into sections 1/2" thick and deluge with butter and sugar.
At one time the Confederate government experimented with a mixture of cowpea flour and wheat flour, for making a nourishing hard tack.....but most men's teeth were not able to grind it. It took a hatchet or an ax to break them up and the pieces resembled flint rock.