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From: Rosalie B. (no email)
Date: Tue Mar 01 2005 - 20:52:46 EST
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:02:23 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
>
>I've been offline for a while but just had time today
>to go over the recent thread on cooking and eating
>underway. Something I found interesting was the
>comment that soft fruit and vegitables would be cut by
>the hammock strands and you end up with a mess.
>Someone said they would be using a bag of some sort to
>hold the soft, fresh fruit and vegitables. But
We had peaches in a wire basket and after a somewhat lively run, they
had to be thrown out.
This is a post I made to rec.boats.cruising of Annie Hill's
recommendations - she does have more than one book BTW.
> She has the following listed as canned goods to take on a long voyage (this
> is what she'd have after having provisioned in England so some of the stuff
> I'm not sure what it is)
>
> Tomatoes
> Baked beans
> Sardines
> Pilchards (?)
> Tuna
> Pineapple in juice
> Water chestnuts
> Bamboo shoots
> Sharwood's curries
> Assorted cooked peas and beans
>
> She says to take off the labels, mark the cans and then varnish them.
>
> Dried beans, rice and pasta stored in Tuppeware or the equivalent.
>
> Butter can be bought in cans
>
> Milk either canned or dried or long life
>
> Eggs unwashed and un refrigerated she says can be kept 6 weeks in
> ventilated cartons (she drills a hole in the bottom and top of each cup).
> She says you can also dip them in boiling water for 10 seconds instead of
> coating the outside.
>
> Keep all fresh veggies cool and dark.
>
> She washes all fresh veggies except root vegetables in 1/2 gallon of fresh
> water with 1 tsp bleach and then dries them. She says never to buy
> vegetables that have been refrigerated because it seems to destroy their
> will to survive.
>
> Tomatoes bought green will last weeks, and cranberries will last months.
> Grapefruit, hard pears, and apples will keep 2 months in a moderate climate
>
> She hangs grape clusters up
> Lemons she sews a thread through the nipple and hangs them up - they keep
> more than a month in a warm climate.
> She also hangs up peppers the same way, after washing them, but doesn't
> thread them with a needle but ties them up, and they will last 5 weeks.
>
> Dates and figs can be sun dried and keep well.
> Oranges (thin skinned ones are better) are susceptible to mold so must be
> washed, and then will keep a month in a hot climate.
>
> Cabbage should not be washed - just peel off and use the outer leaves.
> The same for onions - medium size ones are best - keep them dry and peel
> off the brown skin - should keep 3 weeks to a month that way.
> Lettuce the same - don't wash and use the outer leaves.
> Carrots also should not be washed or kept in plastic.
> Potatoes - keep in dark so they don't turn green, don't wash - don't get
> new potatoes and they will keep 1-4 months.
> Turnips will also keep a couple of months.
>
> Celery likes to be stored in plastic bags
>
> Garlic - separate and store in a woven basket.
> for veggies.
grandma Rosalie
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