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Survival At Sea 1/2: Weather, Food, Water, Medical

Throughout the course of our beloved series, our stalwart heroes find themselves in many perilous situations that aren’t always directly related to combat (stranded on a tiny island during a storm, adrift on the open ocean without a raft, shipwrecked at least twice, etc.). Luckily, they have the survival skills to carry them through these [...]
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A Mince Pie Recipe For Christmas At Sea

This recipe was taken from the amazing book Lobscouse and Spotted Dog, and will lead to an historically accurate (more or less) reproduction of a traditional Christmas mince pie such as Jack Aubrey might have eaten on his travels to remind himself of home during the holiday season… Or such as he might have wished to [...]
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Recipes For The Adventurous Sailor In You!

These recipes were all taken from the amazing book Lobscouse and Spotted Dog, and will lead to historically accurate (more or less) reproductions of some of the food mentioned in our beloved series. Lobscouse Serves 8 Ingredients 4 lbs stewing beef 1 bay leaf 4 large onions 6 large potatoes 4 large leeks 8 oz [...]
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How To Make and Eat Hardtack

Hardtack (or hard tack) is a flat hard biscuit made from flour and water (often saltwater) that was used as a staple food where fresh and perishable foods won’t survive. Also known as “pilot bread,” “pilot biscuit,” “ship’s biscuit” or “ship biscuit,” “sea biscuit,” and “sea bread,” hardtack is most closely associated with sailors on [...]
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Diet and Food Quality: The Lesser of Two Weevils

It is popularly believed that the ship’s biscuit (hard tack) issued to Nelson’s Navy were full of a variety of revolting insects such as ‘maggots’ and ‘weevils’. A few authors (such as Jack Nastyface) who have enhanced the facts to suit their own ends have encouraged this. However in the majority of narratives little if [...]
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Diet and Food Quality in Aubrey’s Royal Navy

“Englishmen, and more especially seamen, love their bellies above anything else, and therefore it must always be remembered in the management of the victualling of the navy that to make any abatement in the quantity or agreeableness of the victuals is to discourage and provoke them in the tenderest point, and will sooner render them [...]
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A Contemporary Account of a Ship’s Cook

His knowledge extends not to half a dozen dishes; but he’s so pretty a fellow at what he undertakes, that the Bare Sight of his cookery gives you a Belly-full. He cooks by the hour glass, as the Parsons preach sermons; and will no more surpass one Puncto of Time, than a scrupulous virtuoso, in [...]
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All To Seek: Cross-Reference

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