Dessecrated veggies

[Hoosier49er]

I'm wondering if anyone has had any luck with ever popular dessecated vegetables, and if so, how did you mannage to do it? I tried the search function, and didn't have much luck. Any input would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Pvt. Joe Snell
49th Ind. Vol. Inf.

[Justin Runyon]

Pick up last months issue of CWH, Charles Heath has a glorious article on rations that includes your veggies.

[flattop32355]

For the uninformed, the CHW would be "Civil War Historian" magazine.

The same article also addresses making salt pork, essence of coffee, and hardtack. The article is by Charles Heath, known CW curmudgeon and , if you can get him off the internet, a reasonably nice fellow.

[Edwin Carl Erwin]

I'm wondering if anyone has had any luck with ever popular dessecated vegetables, and if so, how did you mannage to do it?

Joe,

Having lived on the stuff issued 37 years ago, I can only advise that hunger will enable you to manage. I know this might sound trite, but you have to find the dried vegetables you like the best & make the best of them. Try adding period correct herbs. We used to mix different packages of the culinary wonder just for a change. There isn't much correction for the palability, you can only attmept to alter taste.

If all else fails, I heartly recommend corn porn made from white corn meal. This is a great, long lasting campaign food.

Regards,

[flattop32355]

If all else fails, I heartly recommend corn porn made from white corn meal. This is a great, long lasting campaign food.

And if you're not all that hungry, you can open up the corn porn and look at the pictures.....of course, I just make it to read the articles.

The "Too Good to Pass Up" Mess

[Ephraim_Zook]

Issue dessicated vegetables were not the dried veggies nicely packaged for hikers that one can buy today. They came in a large cake. You broke some off and boiled the heck out of it to reconstitute them. Some years ago there was a discussion about making them to represent the period stuff. I seem to recall that someone (may have been the aforementioned Charles Heath) had tried building a form out of 2 x 4s, filling it with greens, and parking his F-250 on top of it to compress the vegetables. This whole thing may have been apochryphal -- or it may have been true...

Charles??

[Edwin Carl Erwin]

Bernard,

Oops, I once knew how to spell. Make that "corn pone". You're right that was way, way too good to pass up. Thanks for catching my embarassing, albeit funny, typo.

Was at an heritage event where someone let their Freudian slip show by asking, "pass the porn cone". We all had more than a few laughs & that was the mess buzz phrase for the remainder of that weekend.

Regards,