Sailors ate hardtack because it did not spoil and was easy to carry. Maggots and other worms infested the biscuits, which let the sailor have additional protein.
No. They supposedly would lure sailors to their grisly death, usually making the ship sink.
in the hull of the ship.
eat their own faces
applesauce cookies,gingerbread orange cake, hardtack cake, idiots cake, corn muffins, Lincoln cake.
Because they don't have electricity or candles.
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Bacon, coffee, rice, hardtack.
A hot meal if they were luckyAll fresh food was eaten at the beginning of the voyage because the sailors didn;t want it to be spoiledafter, it was hard ship's biscuits, salted meat, and of course fishrats and maggots got into the foodwater was stored in barrels and didn't taste too good after a week or two at sea
because they wanted to
I believe it was hardtack. It is a kind of cracker that is very hard to bite.
Hardtack is a hard unleavened flatbread. Thanks to its lack of leavening and any fats, it had the valuable quality of not spoiling for years. Sailors' shipboard fare was identical, except they called it 'ships' biscuit'. In both cases, maggots and rats would completely consume the 'bread' supply long before it grew impossible for suitably hungry humans to eat.
No. They supposedly would lure sailors to their grisly death, usually making the ship sink.
in the hull of the ship.
The matches and clocks. Why? Because we would be really lost today if we couldn't tell time. Also where would we be and what would we eat with no heat?
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. Early in the war the South had the benefits of country cooking. Later on food became less plentiful because the men and farmers were off fighting and not helping to grow enough food crops.
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.