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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

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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