Food in the Old West 

This stuff is fascinating. I have lived in Leadville for 29 years now. My great grandfather was killed in a mine in the 1890’s here. Some of this food I remember my grandmother making when I was little. In my last house we still had the lead fridge, and meat hooks in pantry. I have started a collection of antique kitchen gadgets, fun stuff.

Sir Thank u for posting. You did what u set out to do and more. Very interesting and well done. Kudos!

You have an incredibly calming delivery , this stuff is fascinating!!

"pure force of awkwardness"

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Being from the old west of America and being 80 years old, I am surprised that not only I nor any really old relatives know what a recipe ingredient called "well washed butter" is or how it is used or washed in what? It is in the old Household Searchlight cookbook owned by my Grandmother now long deceased.

This was fascinating! Brings me back to some of my grandmas recipes from her farm.

Love these videos 🤗

I noticed that there wasn’t any bread on the menus. I’m guessing it was a given with most meals. Great video by the way… you might be interested in JohnLevi’s recent video on early american menus.

Ya, a very good question, everyone and their uncles and aunts appear to have had oysters on hand. Where in the world did those come from and how the heck did they get to Leadville?! And cheaply! That's pretty wild. My mom had grown up on a farm in Missouri nowhere near any towns of any size, back in the 1910s and 20s. Food was a very spartan affair for her way back then, mostly what was grown locally. Getting so much as an orange was a big exotic treat. Distribution was an issue. All the women in Leadville would certainly have known how to cook and bake and would have done just fine given a wood stove and a list of ingredients.

I like this.

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This channel is just fantastic. I have a similar hobby, with something local to me, that has been absolutely wrung through the transmogrifier of pop-culture, with the "Vikings" and "their culture". And it's of course interesting to find that most, if not all, of the stereotypes are wrong, and that a great deal of assumptions have simply been reinforced from other assumptions made in more recent history. Much like your mention of Hollywood's representation of the Old West. But it always ends up with giving me a deeper appreciation for the pluck involved with these people, even when it turns out that the biggest battle that was fought for a hundred years in the region was to make the crops grow. How did they actually dress, what would they have eaten, where did they trade - we actually know a great deal about this, so piecing together something else than the Hollywood narrative is actually not difficult. It's just that it involves a lot more legwork than just going with the first and best assumption.

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Would you have any information about what miners would have eaten for their meals during their work shifts?

I think all yeast was sourdough. Brewer's yeast hadn't yet been introduced.

Based on this limited example at least it doesn't appear that chocolate was much of a thing then.

Cake 🎂

They're not referring to Rocky Mountain Oysters... Are they? 👀

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