I came across a couple videos from Jon Townsend that I thought would be of interest. Townsend's YouTube channel is mostly about cooking and life in the 18th Century and, for that reason, has a lot of relevance to preppers and bushcrafters. Townsend has also partnered with Dan Wowak of of Coalcracker Bushcraft on several videos to discuss "primitive" bushcraft as practiced by frontiersmen and trappers of the 18th Century.
The first video of Townsend's that I came across this weekend and which caught my interest was on "The Working Man's Breakfast" where he describes the typical breakfast of the 18th Century, particularly for the common person: essentially what we'd today describe as oatmeal or grits, although going under various names such as pottage or porridge, but sometimes bread and cheese, and often with a pint of beer or broth or milk to go with it. Something to think about when planning long term food storage.
The second video is nearly an hour long, but it is a video with Wowak going over various bushcraft techniques applicable to the 18th or early 19th centuries: setting up a tarp for shelter, making short lengths of cordage, lighting a fire and making charcloth, some ways of cooking over a fire, bedding down at night (including how to properly wrap up in a wool blanket), making grease from rendered animal fat and beeswax to keep tools from rusting, treating leather and wood, etc.
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