Ozark Recipes and Remedies

In the Ozarks the kitchen is the heart of the home and it is often the women who make the heart beat.

Women bake bread, cook meals, clean the dishes and the kitchen daily, often dozens of times per day, and family and friends enjoy the cooking.  That is her reward.  If everyone eats a lot, she is usually happy.  I know that's how I feel.

The good food smells is what makes the kitchen is a good place to visit. She gets respect however subtle it is from all who eat what she cooks.  Someone is always at hand to assist in some way.  Not a bad life really.

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Ozark Kitchens Revamped

Recipes and Remedies -- I'm still trying to find the focus of my Pioneer Cookbook blog.  Recipes and remedies is too broad a subject.  There is too much research involved and not too much passion either.

I may let this blog fade away or try to get someone else to write the entries. Someone who is passionate about writing about old Ozark kitchens and the women and men who ate, worked, and socialized in them. I need an older woman, Ozark born and raised, to write this blog.


Is it possible for such a woman to exist who can also use the Internet? She would be rare indeed. Contact me if you are that woman.
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Civil War Recipes for Soldiers

Confederate soldiers often died of dysentery and for good reason. As the civil war raged on and the South depleted their funds, the troops had to eat whatever they had or stole or found or die of starvation; they usually did eat the mess but did so with one hand holding the nose and the other holding the spoon.

Horse meat was a common staple, dog meat also. The preserve the horse meat the cook would throw the raw meat in a big vat of saltwater where it would sit for days, regardless of temperature.

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