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7 Shocking Foods Made to Survive Wild Frontier
by James Walton

Cooking is a survival skill. Its one of the most overlooked but for the longest time it was prioritized. That is because starvation was always looming. For most of human history starvation sat quietly in the corner ready to reach out and take another.

For the pioneers it was no different. In fact, it was even worse. Well, no one had it worse than the children of the pioneers. They had about a 20% chance of not making it to 1 year old! It was just as hard to make it to 15 years old. Once you established yourself you had a much better chance of a long life.

We could go down the litany of threats like disease, injury, native Americans and so on. Most of the trouble came from malnutrition and the inability to develop a powerful immune system. We know this now because of advances in nutrition and a better understanding of epidemiology.

You can’t raise kids on cabbage water in the wild west. Creativity in cooking was a hallmark of the pioneers, for this reason. They took often overlooked or discarded ingredients and turned them into food. Some of these weird foods are still eaten and enjoyed today!

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