Carlislekid

A fine lid it is.

:angry: Whale cracklins anf GROG. Enough Grog ya won't care what yer eatin

Ship's biscuits are round, not square like army bread. I use whole wheat flour to make mine. I use a round cookie cutter or jasr to make the shape, pierce with a fork...

Who is on watch?

TO MAGGIE: Try Wooden World...Life in the Georgian Navy, by N.A.M. Rodgers or Between the devil and the Deep Blue sea (Author I can't remenber)

Ya done good.

Try the resources of the BAR (Brigade of the American Revolution) or The NWTA, (Northwest Territorial Alliance)

First hand account's, military orderly books, paintings are ok, but the artist is usually painting from memory. Hogarth is an excellent source. Missouri is the Show me state.

Hmmmmm, barefoot wimmen......

Because of many upcoming festivals, and Pirates in Paradise later in the year, I have been getting a fair number of questions about period camps that I would like second opinions and advice about. 1 - Tents I assume that the common variety wedge is a passable tent, but I would like to know for certain if a wedge is appropriate and what tents may be better suited to the period. The wedge tent (bell back for xtra space is the most common tent. It will raise the least ire amongst hysterical reenactors. Captain Cook had pavillion tents he set up as observatories (1773)Wall tents are very period, but not often used by 18th century reenactors in military type camps. 2 - Cookware Cast iron? forged cookware? Copper? Cooking tripods? There are numerous questions to the overall area of cookware, so I will leave this topic open-ended for whatever advice may come our way. Cast Iron by far was the most Common and is the easiest to cookwith. Beware the copPer stuff, it wilL make you very very very sick if you use it with acidic foods (Experience here)3 - Camp gear Sea chests, chairs, kegs, etc. What are the simple and most plausible additions to improve the lived-in look of any good camp. Are canvas buckets period? What furniture if any might by found in a camp?Canvas buckets are taboo. Good leather fire buckets are period and nautical. Sea Chests, kegs, etc. The Question going aRound Authentic camps is "how did you carry all that crap around? Military infantry groups are banning most chairs, lantern holders, lanterns, boxes, chests, etc. How were they carried? Chais & tables could be "linerated" from surround inhabitants. 4 - And of course...the don'ts Plastic and resin cast skull candle holders, homemade rotting corpses lounging about as caricatures of doom, metal hope-chests and blanket trunks from WalMart, etc.

Seems as though its the only time I wear mine. I thought it was my 2nd skin after 9-11

God bless the souls of the 9 Charleston Firefighters. May providence shine upon their families. This is the biggest tragedy to hit Charleston since the CW and Blackbeard

Like today, much of the economy of 18thcentury England depended on supplying the military. There were bakeries that baked hundreds of tons of ships biscuit for the RN, many of the casks (like our old K rats) were years old before they were utilized. Cooking on board was limited with the specialty dish reserved for special occasions was duff, made from oatmeal and had raisins if they cook were lucky to have saved some. Baking was taboo as FIRE was the enemy of a sailing vessel. IN bad weather most Captains ordered the cook stove fires put out.

:angry: The word 'barrel' is commonly used as a name for the type of container which beers are delivered to the pub in. However the word is more correctly, a unit of measure. As a container, the cask was made of wood and roughly cylindrical in shape except that it 'bulged' outwards in the middle, and was used to transport not only the obvious liquids (water, beer, wine etc.) but also other commodities such as fish, sugar, flour, meat, cement, minerals, and so on. The sizes of the different casks varied with contents and, some of these different casks acquired different names. Cask Sizes Pin 4½ Gallons Firkin 9 Gallons = 2 Pins Kilderkin 18 Gallons = 2 Firkins Barrel 36 Gallons = 2 Kilderkins Hogshead 54 Gallons = 1½ Barrels Puncheon 72 Gallons = 2 Barrels Butt 108 Gallons = 2 Hogsheads Tun 216 Gallons = 2 Butts Ales are delivered to pubs in varying sizes of cask dependent on the amount of storage capacity and also the volume of ales which the pub can sell. A 'Pin' can easily be stored on a counter top to dispense the ales straight to the glass but the largest cask used would normally be a 'Hogshead' as anything larger becomes very difficult to move around a cellar The firkin, a small beer cask, holding nine Imperial gallons (72 pints) would have been of traditional wooden construction (often Oak) whereas modern day casks are usually made from Aluminium.

Weevils were sooo bad, RN sailors preffered to eat biscuits in the dark so they would not have to see what they were eating. Only thing worse than the biscuits was the slimey green beef or the fouled water.