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  • From: bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Homesteading and beyond ... was Corn Fed
  • Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 09:50:37 -0800 (PST)

Bev, didn't they use hardtack, all through , at least the 19th century. I
believe hard tack is made only with flour..........

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--- On Tue, 1/6/09, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Homesteading and beyond ... was Corn Fed
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009, 10:47 AM
> Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
> >
> >>> Good try, but I have yet to see anyone but
> you, James, jump from
> >>> an e-mail
> >> talking about flour to trying to imply that folks
> are talking about
> >> exotics.
> >>
> >
> > The Southern Appalachians is definately not what
> you'd call wheat
> > country for a variety of reasons. Yet in the times we
> are talking
> > about, no one bought flour. They raised wheat, took
> it to the local
> > gristmill (and there were scores of them at the time
> still tesitified
> > to by the large number of avenues called "XXX
> Mill Road" we still
> > have) and miller took out a toll of the flour for his
> cut.
>
> I've asked locals (people whose family has been here
> for generations)
> and they say that eating wheat is kind of modern, that in
> the old days,
> most folks just had corn, hence cornbread instead of wheat
> bread, grits
> instead of cream of wheat, etc. I'm not sure how much
> 'trading' went on
> for wheat. Just how popular was a sandwich in the Southern
> Appalachians, or the South in general? I know biscuits
> were/are a big
> thing, but somehow I see biscuit eating in more coastal
> areas, like New
> Orleans, ports where wheat can come in, or at least in city
> areas where
> wheat would more like be sold. I just wonder how common it
> was (and how
> expensive it was) for a rural Southerner to have wheat,
> something they
> can't grow themselves and something that would have to
> be
> 'imported'...either by rail or river. Certainly
> it would be seemingly
> tough for early colonists to have wheat flour in their
> kitchens? On
> second thought, most people in colonial times did live
> fairly close to a
> port/the coast..I dunno. I suppose my question to you
> historians out
> there is this: How common was the use of wheat flour in
> the inland
> South(colonial to Civil War times)?
>
> Bev
>
>
>
> --
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> brethren, and to do good is my religion."
> Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
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