The Cuisine Of Last Resort

For those of you who have stored a 3 year supply of food away,
along with seeds to plant. This is most likely all you will need
Because those of you who have failed to prepare most likely will
not survive that first winter. If you are indeed fortunate enough to
have supplies in a safe haven you will keep a very low profile during
the first 2-3 years.

For the rest of you, I have perused some of the literature on how to survive
without food available to you and have gathered some recipes for a staple among
starving peoples throughout the ages


Grass soup

Bundles of lalang grass boiled over a fire
A pint to drink with a pint of unsalted rice

Rotten vegetable tops with horse bones boiled in water, we turned to eating insects

trimed off parts of cabbage with 200 grams of sauerbro, a dense bread

An occasional treat, a boiled toad or stolen plant roots

A thin gruel of wild plants

potato skin soup

putrid watery soup made from turnips beets and potato peelings

Bread made with flour and sawdust
one loaf for six men

Grass soup, composed of grass and weeds even the broth was green

The Donner party initially survived on ox hide before resorting to the
final solution; Cannabilism.
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In America we pause after the harvest to give thanks. It is called Thanksgiving. Of the 110 people who
left England, only fifty survived that first winter here in America the land of plenty. They died of disease, exposure, and hunger. Here are the names of those who died that first winter.

Men

* John Allerton?
* Richard Britteridge, December 21
* Robert Carter, after February 21
* James Chilton, December 8
* Richard Clarke
* John Crackstone Sr.?
* Thomas English?
* Moses Fletcher?
* Edward Fuller
* John Goodman -
* William Holbeck?
* John Langmore
* Edmund Margesson?
* Christopher Martin, January 8
* William Mullins, February 21
* Degory Priest, January 1
* John Rigsdale
* Thomas Rogers
* Elias Story
* Edward Thompson, December 4
* Edward Tilley
* John Tilley
* Thomas Tinker
* John Turner
* William White, February 21
* Roger Wilder
* Thomas Williams

Women

* Mary (Norris) Allerton, February 25, reportedly in childbirth, baby was stillborn.[4]
* Dorothy (May) Bradford, December 7
* Mrs. James Chilton
* Sarah Eaton
* Mrs. Edward Fuller
* Mary (Prower) Martin
* Alice Mullins April?
* Mary Mosher
* Alice Rigsdale
* Rose Standish, January 29
* Ann (Cooper) Tilley
* Joan (Hurst) Tilley
* Mrs. Thomas Tinker
* Elizabeth (Barker) Winslow, March 24
* Alice Closford, October 24

Children

* William Butten, November 6 (died at sea, the only passenger to die during the journey)
* John Hooke (age 14)
* Ellen More (age 8)
* Jasper More (age 7), December 6
* Mary More (age 6)
* Joseph Mullins April?
* Solomon Prower, December 24
* son of Thomas Tinker
* son of John Turner
* another son of John Turner

Statistics by month

Winter

According to Bradford's Register[5], a contemporary source

* November, 1 death
* December, 6
* January, 8
* February, 17
* March, 13

Spring

* April uncertain, between 1 and 5[6] (including Governor John Carver, not in above list)
* May or June, at least 1 (Mrs. Katherine (White) Carver, not in above list)

Four deaths occurred in months unknown before the first Thanksgiving bringing the total deaths to 51.

Today we give thanks for what we have. We also give thanks for what we have never known.
Our parents were successful at raising most of us in naive ignorance to true want
Will we be so successful with our own children and grandchildren?