Ye Pirate Brethren

Yeah corn pone! Or corn mush, which can be fried. Yum. Pretty much hasty pudding. Very popular in the colonies in our period (as referenced in The Sot Weed Factor).

I just made a HUGE pot of potato cheese soup....this time I didn't turn the potatos into mush. In fact, they are a little under done so that they're right once its heated.

I made a special dessert.

Am bringing 2 dozen farm fresh eggs...literally pulled from beneath the chickens this morning. no joke. I have a pound of bacon, some blocks of cheese, and some summer sausage.

I made pumpkin bread tonight. Tomorrow I'll be baking cookies (gingersnap and maybe shortbread), Fine Cakes and some other stuff. I also have spiced cider that is pretty good heated up or with rum added to it.

I'll bring a couple pounds of coffee. And a (modern) jar of honey. And maybe some goat butter.

Mark! Do you still have your 19thC box coffee grinder? If so, I'll bring whole beans. Or, if Mark doesn't but someone else has a old-fashioned coffee grinder, I'll bring beans. Otherwise, I'll bring ground coffee.

Coffee!!! Wonderful, now I won't get a headache!

Yes I have the grinder and a small pot to boil coffee in and an 18 c coffeepot. Good idea I forgot about it. I guess I'm bring cook stuff. hehe

Mark

Great!
Coffee!
Woooo!

Not a coffee drinker, so maybe I should scrounge up some chocolate. Remember this thread? viewtopic.php?f=10&t=249&hilit=chocolate

The short answer was that melting chocolate with water was pretty authentic to drink. Rub up some chocolate with sugar!

I was thinking about the same. I have a whole container of expensive cacao nibs. But without a metate, maybe we should just substitute cocoa powder???

Had this been posted yesterday, I might have been able to help with that... We have a few small cakes of Abuelita(sp?) (chocolate for melting into hot water for drinking) at home... But as we are leaving straight from the office it will be out of the way to stop back at the house to get it. Although the stuff is pretty easy to find at most grocery chains, so maybe someone will get some on their way.

I think regular unsweetened or bittersweet chocolate bars would be fine, since it is basically chocolate liquor with sugar added. Cocoa powder is 19th century I think, but whatever, it would taste good too, and be easier!

I have a ton of abuelita (that is the correct spelling, as I recall) here. I don't know how accurate the modern formula is, but... hey, whatever. I do have three historical recipes for hot chocolate, but I don't have any ambergris laying around last time I checked.


I'll bring the abuelita. Balls can handle the cocoa if he wants to.