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right and right, Isaac Harmson and Sarah Pernick prepare pancakes
for a morning meal. They are in a setting that the Corps would have
known; a cottonwood lined margin of the Missouri River. Above, a charcoal
fired Dutch oven turns out a perfect cake, under the experienced hands
of one of our guides. Captains Lewis & Clark started their journey
with plenty of pre-made biscuits and flour to make more. I'm not sure
they made cakes, but they had the baking ovens to make bread and more
biscuits. Their larder was also crammed with corn, corn meal, coffee,
sugar, hogs' lard, salted pork, potable soup, beans, peas, salt, etc.
As they ran out, they relied on roots, dog and horse meat as well
as salmon and other fish. |
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