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Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 17:13:10 -0700
From: "Ole B. Jensen" <olebjensen@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Flour
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Daniel,
Weather sucks!, we are 20 deg below normal, hope it changes soon. It has
been overcast and snowey since Tuesday the 7 of November, seems the heavens
are not happy with the election games that are being played.
You are correct cast iron from the period that I have seen was verry thin
and brittle compared to what we see today.
I don't know where I read this information, but in the centuries before
this, bread and bread products were concidered staples at every meal. It
could be that grains can be stored for long periods of time after harvesting
that this became the practice. So I think that trapers of the period were so
use to having bread products that Ashley felt the need to make flour his
largest commodityfollowed by Coffee and Tobaco.
YMOS
Ole # 718
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From: "Daniel L. Smith" <dlsmith@about.com>
To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Flour
Date: Sun, Nov 12, 2000, 3:59 PM
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From: "Ole B. Jensen" <olebjensen@earthlink.net>
Subject: MtMan-List: Flour
Gentelmen,
Question,
In the papers of William H. Ashley it states that
he took 500 pounds of Flour to the 1825
Rendezvous at Henrys Fork,that's a lot of
pancakes?, how did they cook it?.
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"bannock" baked on a stick, "biskets" baked in a
frying pan or pot with stew, "fry bread" heated
on a flat rock in a boiling pot of lard,"snikers"
are done when rending lard - when the clean lard
is boiling in a liquid state the dough balls are
put in untl brown, pretty greasy.
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It also shows Mr. Bill Monteaus as having
received 2 copper 2 gallon kettles? And in his
inventory of goods taken he shows 25 Kettles, but
does not state what they are made of?
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tinned iron, iron, brass, copper, as well as thin
cast iron, not the stuff we see today - to thick.
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Interesting!
YMOS
Ole # 718
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How your weather Ole ?
Later,
Daniel L. "Concho" Smith
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