What the forty niners ate during gold rush?

Answer 1

It depends on which goldrush one means - Australian or any of the gold rushes in America.

People on the Australian goldfields most commonly ate damper, a simple bread made of flour, salt and water and cooked over an open campfire. They ate mutton with potatoes and onions, perhaps some cabbage and carrots if they were lucky, mutton or rabbit stew, or salted beef jerky. Occasionally they might kill a kangaroo or wallaby, but it was not the favoured food, although "roo tail stew" did become reasonably popular. Other fruits and vegetables were rare on the goldfields. They enjoyed billy tea as well.

Miners and their families often bought their food in one of the "trading posts" that grew up around where the fields were. Food was often very expensive as the local supplier had a monopoly on the market. This meant that he could charge whatever he liked, knowing that the miners would not leave their claims in order to travel to the cities for supplies at cheaper prices.

In the American gold rushes, they would have eaten wild game of whichever area they were inhabiting, but many of the other staple items would have been very similar.

Answer 2

It depends on which goldrush one means - Australian or any of the gold rushes in America.

People on the Australian goldfields most commonly ate damper, a simple bread made of flour, salt and water and cooked over an open campfire. They ate mutton with potatoes and onions, perhaps some cabbage and carrots if they were lucky, mutton or rabbit stew, or salted beef jerky. Occasionally they might kill a kangaroo or wallaby, but it was not the favoured food, although "roo tail stew" did become reasonably popular. Other fruits and vegetables were rare on the goldfields. They enjoyed billy tea as well.

They ate a lot of dried meat, beans, bread cooked in the gold pans, eggs, potatoes, more dried meat, killed some fresh meat when it came along, fish, chickens, duck, and other fowl. They either brought foods in with them or bought it in one of the "trading posts" that grew up around where the fields were. Food was often very expensive as the local supplier had a monopoly on the market. This meant that he could charge whatever he liked, knowing that the miners wouldn't leave their claims in order to travel to the cities for supplies at cheaper prices.

In the American gold rushes, they would have eaten wild game of whichever area they were inhabiting, but many of the other staple items would have been very similar.

Answer 3

before they went to the goldrush they packed food and sometimespeople would put up tents and trade their food with people

Answer 4

Miners used their gold pans for panning and cooking in the ashes of their camp fires. . One of the primary drinks was coffee, but it wasn't like ground coffee today. The miners carried whole coffee beans with them and threw them into boiling water. They ate a lot of beans, dried pork, boiled potatoes, dried apples, bread, and biscuits. Sourdough bread was created during the California gold rush because a person could carry a starter with them and make more bread. Food was very expensive and simple items like eggs were sold for a dollar apiece in 1849. Because of the cost of the food there are reports of near-starvation and things like fruits and vegetables were hard to get. Many miners suffered from scurvy . There was one dish called Hangtown Fry that was an omelette of bacon and oysters. At other times it was a mish-mosh of various regional ingredients held together by eggs. PBS has this recipe on PBS food .

Answer 5

Salt meat, fresh produce, (that rotted away after a while), potatoes, cabbage and dried fruit.

Answer 6

probbably cabbage ,