. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. The early settlers weren't accus- tomed to eating much meat in their homelands, according to the IFT booklet, yet it formed a large part of the diet in early America, where game was abundant. Many fron- tiersmen lived almost exclusively on meat they could kill as they went, or carried along dried as pemmican or jerky. Frontier wives even pro- cessed calves foot jelly into an early version of boullion cubes called "portable ;. The booklet, prepared for re- lease in conjunction with IFT's Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Cal
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. The early settlers weren't accus- tomed to eating much meat in their homelands, according to the IFT booklet, yet it formed a large part of the diet in early America, where game was abundant. Many fron- tiersmen lived almost exclusively on meat they could kill as they went, or carried along dried as pemmican or jerky. Frontier wives even pro- cessed calves foot jelly into an early version of boullion cubes called "portable ;. The booklet, prepared for re- lease in conjunction with IFT's Annual Meeting in Anaheim, Cal., picks up the theme of the meeting, "Food: America's Bountiful Heri- tage," and the role of food technol- ogy in adding to that abundance, because-in spite of the many new varieties of food-the diet of our forefathers was very Umited and would have seemed boring by our standards. Climate played a major role in the availability of fresh fruits and vegetables, and Ufe for the housewife was very much oriented around preservation tech- niques to help provide variety. Nutrition, of course, was an unknown science, and many of the processes used virtually destroyed vital nutrients and led to deficiency diseases. Typical winter diets of cornbread, molasses, beans and salt "fat back" led regularly to pellegra. Scurvy was common in the winter and on the frontier, since vitamin C was frequently lacking, and pre- served fruits and vegetables such as dried apples and sauerkraut had Little vitamin content to reUeve the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Portland, CT [etc. ] : Taylor Pub. Co. [etc. ]
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