What kind of recipes were used on the lewis and clark expedition?

Answer 1

There no any recipes listed in the Journals of the Voyage of Discovery, other than that involving Toussaint Charbonneau, the French interpreter and husband of Sacagawea.
Capt. Meriwether Lewis did not like Charbonneau but described Charbonneau, who could not swim, as “perhaps the most timid waterman in the world” and “a man of no peculiar merit;” useful as an interpreter only, in which capacity he discharged his duties in good faith. Lewis did praise Charbonneau for his cooking abilities. His specialty was called boudin blanc (white pudding of chopped buffalo meat and kidneys stuffed into an intestine).
The sergeants were in charge of their squads mess. Which meant they were in charge of their camp equipment, such as kettles pots and deep frying pans. One has survived and is in a museum in Oregon. It looks like a type of Dutch oven cooker with a handle. Capt. William Clark traded it for salmon and dog meat on the return trip.
There were at on time at least 42 members of the party on the up river trip to Ft. Mandan in what now is North Dakota. They had to have a lot of meat for the crew. They burned up over four thousand calories every day.
In the Planes areas they ate deer, buffalo and elk. A lot of meat. So they fried a lot of their food. Or had Bar B Que type cooking over the camp fires.
When they reached the Colombia river system they ate fish, salmon cut throat trout, smelt and even some whale blubber. One member was a good fisherman named Silas Goodrich and he set up fish traps and used a rod and nets he was quite a fisherman. Lewis also liked to fish. All the food went into the Corps lauder.
Sacagawea supplied different roots and berries.
Their main diet was meat, fish, dog meat. The fish was smoked or pounded onto a flour and packed in bricks. They jerked meat and traded for pemmican.
All and all they eat well. With the exception of when they crossed the Rocky Mountains. They had an emergency rations supply. It was a concoction of evaporated vegetables and probably looked like bouillon cubes. They mixed it with bear oil and it tasted terrible. But it got them through tough times. They did not eat their candles.

Answer 2

They probably fished a lot and cooked their fish on an open fire........ on the hot coals, maybe a very hot rock and possibly smoked them too. I doubt they had bread to eat with the fish. Or any salad, side dishes or dessert. When they tired of fish, they maybe had wild turkey, squirrel, and critters like raccoons. Once in a while, maybe some venison that they would share with the Indians. Mussels? Whatever food they had, it would have been prepared very simple with little or no seasoning. I once read an article about a primitive recipe for chicken. Catch a chicken, swing it around in the air to break its neck. Remove the innards. Your fire has already burned down leaving you a bed of hot coals. Slather some mud all over the chicken. (Mud should be about the texture of putty.) Rake some of the hot coals back to make a cavity and bury the mud/chicken in the hole, covering it up with the hot coals. When you return several hours later, dig out the chicken, take a rock and shatter the baked, dried mud off the chicken. Most of the feathers will come off with the mud. Tidy up the roasted chicken and eat until you are full.

Answer 3

They ate anything that they found and even carried dogs with them for food. The ate horses and when they had no meat to eat, or not enough, they used what they had brought with the, Portable Soup. Portable Soup was a broth boiled down until it was solid and soluble in water, so if they did not have enough meat to serve the whole crew, they cooked what they had and ate that.

You need to read the Journals of Lewis and Clark if for no other reason to find out what they thought when they met their first Grizzley.

Answer 4

No doubt Indian ones; since they probably stuck Sacajawea with the cooking, and certainly things that could be cooked over an open flame or dried and eaten later.