"Apples: to Bake Steamboat Style": Recipes for Living on the Frontier
Importance of recipes and health during the Victorian period--civilization reflected in types of food consumed--role of wife in establishing home through kitchen--improvement in transportation leading to shipping of exotic foods (i.e. tamarinds, pineapple)
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Yeast powder, packed 200 tins per barrel aboard the Bertrand cargo. Yeast is essential to the manufacture of bread, which was still made at home during this period.
One of 35 coffee cans included in the cargo of the steamboat.
Commercially produced butter, for households that may not have had the skill set, time, or resources to produce this necessity in-home. Men without wives may have been the primary consumers of this product.
In contrast to the coarse and redundant suppers of overland travelers, steamboats brought edible luxuries to isolated mining towns. Goods such as pineapples, tamarinds, oysters, and essence of ginger alleviated culinary monotony and diversified the daily diet.