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Among eating other things when they could, one standard thing they ate was hardtack, a common kind of cracker or hard biscuit. Often they would soak it in water and fry it to make a kind of hardtack pancake.

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people ate mostly meat with potatos with coffee and brown sugar, dried fruit with malasses, salted pork and cornmeal

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