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Ash Cakes photo coming soon
1776-1800
A plain cornmeal-and-water ash cake inspired by Revolutionary-era field cooking, adapted for a skillet or campfire with salt and a little fat for modern eatability.
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Beef Jerky photo coming soon
Pre-1776-present
Jerky is preservation food before it is snack food. Indigenous drying traditions, pemmican, pioneer travel, soldiers, cowboys, and later road-trip convenience all helped make dried meat part of American food culture.