Potato soup, several civil war soup recipes below
Starting a series today on the US Civil War and food. "[W]e don’t get our rations as we ought to. All the rations that are condemned by the white troops are sent to our regiment,” writes Benjamin Williams, a nineteen-year-old African American private from Philadelphia in the Union Army. Writing from jail on Morris Island in South Carolina he goes on to say, “You ought to see the hard tack that we have to eat. They are moldy and musty and full of worms, and not fit for a dog to eat,” he wrote on July 8, 1864. Hardtack is the name Union soldiers gave the almost hard as concrete tasteless biscuit that the US commissary Department handed out as rations along with salted meat and canned goods. During fierce fighting and times of austerity Union soldiers survived in part on hardtack and in part on foraging and creative cooking ideas. Recently a Dessert Storm veteran told me how he and members of his platoon would come up with really creative meals with their canned field rations which they would jazz up with bartered foods, herbs, and spices from among the locals where they were stationed in Middle East. Below are some civil war era soup recipes:
Civil war soup recipes: http://americancivilwar.com/tcwn/civil_war/Civil_War_Cooking_Recipe/civil_war_soup_recipe.html
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