Thursday, June 17, 2010

Grub lists

Packing and Portaging, Dillon Wallace:

Two weeks for two men, canoeing:

Bacon, 6 pounds
Salt pork, 2 pounds
Canned ham or meats, 5 pounds
Egg powder, 1 lb (equals four dozen eggs)
Milk powder, 1 1/2 pounds
Grease, 3 pounds
Fresh bread, 2 pounds
Flour, 12 pounds
Corn meal, 1 pound
Rolled oats, 1 pound
Rice, 1 pound
Baking powder, 1/2 pound
Potatoes, dehydrated, 3 pounds (equals 21 pounds of fresh potatoes)
Carrots, dehydrated, 3/4 pound (equals 3 pounds fresh carrots)
Onions, dehydrated, 3/4 pound (equals 3 1/4 pounds fresh onions)
Cranberries, dehydrated, 1/4 pound (equals 2 1/2 quarts fresh fruit)
Beans, 2 pounds
Peas, dehydrated, 1/4 pound (equals 1 1/4 fresh peas)
Coffee, ground, 2 pounds
Tea, 1/2 pound
Cocoa, 1/2 pound
Sugar, 5 pounds
Preserves, 1 pound
Lemons, half dozen
Limes
Prunes, 1 pound
Raisins, 1 pound
Salt, 1 pound
Pepper, 3/4 ounce

Standard Hudson's Bay rations, per man per day:

2 pounds of flour and 1 pound of salt pork, or

1 pound of pemmican and 1/4 pound of hardtack





Book of the Forest, Stewart White:


Provisions per man, one week:

flour 7 lbs.
pork 5 lbs. pork
tea 1/5 lbs.
beans 2 lbs
rice 1 1/2 lbs.
prunes and raisins 1 1/2 lbs
lard 1 1/2 lbs
sugar 1 1/2 lbs
oatmeal 1 lb
baking powder
pepper
salt

"This will last much longer if you get game and fish."





Paul Provencher (author of "The Last Courier du Bois)


bannock
bacon
fat (ghee)
salt
pepper
tea
flour
sugar (honey)
onions





Edna Calkins Price's (author of "Burro Bill and Me"):


two people for one month:

flour, 50 lbs
cornmeal, 10 lbs
beans, 20 lbs
honey, 10 lbs
coffee, 2 lbs
sugar, 2 lbs
oil, 1 gallon
salt
soda
onions
cocoa
dried apricots
salt pork
canned milk
canned bully beef


"When times were hard":

flour
coffee
sugar
grease