First of all, let me reiterate that you can't judge "PIONEER Day" cooking by todays nutritional guidelines. It won't stand up to that kind of scrutiny.
Back in those days they ate BUTTER, drank WHOLE Milk (with the CREAMY, too) ate Bacon with extra FAT and a whole lot of Beef, when they could.
If you ate that way today, You wouldn't live past 50, if you were lucky.
Guess what the age expectancy of a human being back in those times were? About 35 for men, 50 or for women. I am not pulling your leg - Look it up.. or GOOGLE it, Now that you can. (There weren't any kind of GOOGLE back in Horse and Buggy days!)
Everyone here who is griping about the abysmal recipes is centering on the very fact that these recipes aren't healthy - Well, THAT is how it was back then. Food TASTE mattered back then as much as HEALTHY Nutrition matters now.
Try some foods reminiscent of those times, like SOUTHERN food. Now, you ask anyone down south and they likely still eat unhealthy foods that taste REALLY good but will kill you eventually. This is food that has items like String beans cooked in Pork Fat, for Flavor of course. So adding Bacon to a can of beans is a treat to the tongue.
My favorite food used to be Chinese Take-Out. But back a few decades ago there was this push to shame Chinese restaurants into making their foods more healthy - cutting down on Sodium, Nitrates and many other items deamed Unhealthy. Guess what, Now it's rather BLAND and Pale. Sorry, if I wanted something that tasted like brown rice in my food I'd have thrown some dirt in with my White rice.
My point is, You can't have food both HEALTHY and true to historical facts.
Back in those days they ate BUTTER, drank WHOLE Milk (with the CREAMY, too) ate Bacon with extra FAT and a whole lot of Beef, when they could.
If you ate that way today, You wouldn't live past 50, if you were lucky.
Guess what the age expectancy of a human being back in those times were? About 35 for men, 50 or for women. I am not pulling your leg - Look it up.. or GOOGLE it, Now that you can. (There weren't any kind of GOOGLE back in Horse and Buggy days!)
Everyone here who is griping about the abysmal recipes is centering on the very fact that these recipes aren't healthy - Well, THAT is how it was back then. Food TASTE mattered back then as much as HEALTHY Nutrition matters now.
Try some foods reminiscent of those times, like SOUTHERN food. Now, you ask anyone down south and they likely still eat unhealthy foods that taste REALLY good but will kill you eventually. This is food that has items like String beans cooked in Pork Fat, for Flavor of course. So adding Bacon to a can of beans is a treat to the tongue.
My favorite food used to be Chinese Take-Out. But back a few decades ago there was this push to shame Chinese restaurants into making their foods more healthy - cutting down on Sodium, Nitrates and many other items deamed Unhealthy. Guess what, Now it's rather BLAND and Pale. Sorry, if I wanted something that tasted like brown rice in my food I'd have thrown some dirt in with my White rice.
My point is, You can't have food both HEALTHY and true to historical facts.