The Lost Ways

357 Pages·2018·3.769 MB·English

by  Claude Davis

THE
LOST
WAYS

Third Edition
This book is dedicated to all the pioneers who
overcame the toughest times and built
one of the greatest nations of all.
Special thanks to all the authors for making this book possible:
S. Patrick
Susan Morrow
Erik Bainbridge
M. Taylor
Theresa Anne DeMario
Lex Rooker
S. Walter
Shannon Azares
M. Searson
Fergus Mason
G. Arminius
M. Richard
Jimmy Neil
James Walton
P. Vlad
Edited and copyrighted by Claude Davis
(www.askaprepper.com)
© 2017 Claude Davis
Third Edition
(a Global Brother production)
This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the
provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of
any part may take place without the written permission of the editor.
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Disclaimer
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Table of Contents
Disclaimer............................................................................................................................5
Third Edition ..................................................................................................................................... 1
Special thanks to all the authors for making this book possible: ......................................................... 3
Third Edition ..................................................................................................................................... 3
Disclaimer ................................................................................................................................................... 5
Table of Contents ........................................................................................................................................ 7
The Most Import Thing ............................................................................................................................. 16
How the Early Pioneers Built Self-Feeding fire ......................................................................................... 20
What You’ll Need ................................................................................................................................ 21
How to Build the Self-Feeding Fire Quickly ......................................................................................... 22
Tips ...................................................................................................................................................... 25
The Survival Food of the U.S. Civil War: How to Make Hardtack Biscuits ............................................... 26
Ingredients ....................................................................................................................................... 29
Hardware ......................................................................................................................................... 29
Lost Recipes from the 18th Century ........................................................................................................... 37
Bacon Fried Apples ......................................................................................................................... 37
Bean Sausage ................................................................................................................................... 38
Vinegar Lemonade ........................................................................................................................... 38
Poor Man’s Meal ............................................................................................................................. 38
Hot Water Cornbread ....................................................................................................................... 39
Buttery Sweet Potatoes .................................................................................................................... 39
Scrambled Dinner ............................................................................................................................ 40
1875 Cottage Cheese........................................................................................................................ 40
Blue-Flower Featherbed ................................................................................................................... 41
Side Pork and Mormon Gravy .......................................................................................................... 41
Cooked Cabbage Salad .................................................................................................................... 42
Lemon Pie Filling ............................................................................................................................ 42
Potato Pancakes ............................................................................................................................... 42
Bean Soup ....................................................................................................................................... 43
Pepper and Eggs .............................................................................................................................. 43
Dumplings ....................................................................................................................................... 44
Beans & Ham Hocks ........................................................................................................................ 44
Milk Toast ....................................................................................................................................... 45
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Cinnamon Sugar Toast ..................................................................................................................... 45
Cornmeal Mush ............................................................................................................................... 46
Elk Backstrap with Spiced Plum Sauce ............................................................................................ 46
Corned Beef ..................................................................................................................................... 47
Soda Biscuits ................................................................................................................................... 47
Skillet Trout ..................................................................................................................................... 48
Winter Red Flannel Hash ................................................................................................................. 48
Mormon Johnnycake ........................................................................................................................ 48
Spotted Pup...................................................................................................................................... 49
Oatmeal Pancakes ............................................................................................................................ 49
Spider Cornbread ............................................................................................................................. 50
Mud Apples ..................................................................................................................................... 50
Gorge Pasta...................................................................................................................................... 51
Glazed Turnips ................................................................................................................................ 51
How North American Natives and Early Pioneers Made Pemmican .......................................................... 52
Nutritional Qualities ............................................................................................................................. 54
Directions ............................................................................................................................................. 55
Ingredients ....................................................................................................................................... 55
1. Rendering the Fat ......................................................................................................................... 55
2. Dried Meat Preparation ................................................................................................................ 62
How Much Do I Need? ......................................................................................................................... 69
Delicious Recipes Using Cattails – “The Supermarket of the Swamp”....................................................... 70
Alternative Practical Applications......................................................................................................... 70
Medicine .............................................................................................................................................. 71
Fuel and illumination ............................................................................................................................ 71
Eatable Parts of Cattail During Spring:............................................................................................. 71
Late Spring: ..................................................................................................................................... 72
Eatable Parts of Cattail During Summer: .......................................................................................... 72
Eatable Parts of Cattail During Autumn and Winter: ........................................................................ 72
Recipes: ................................................................................................................................................ 74
Scalloped Cattails ............................................................................................................................ 74
Cattail Pollen Biscuits ...................................................................................................................... 74
Cattail Pollen Pancakes .................................................................................................................... 75
Cattail Casserole .............................................................................................................................. 75
Cattail Acorn Bread ......................................................................................................................... 75
Cattail Wild Rice Pilaf ..................................................................................................................... 76
Cattail Wild Rice Soup .................................................................................................................... 76
Cat-on-the-Cob with Garlic Butter ................................................................................................... 77
Cattail Flower/Shoots Refrigerator Pickles ....................................................................................... 78
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Indian Cattail Spoon Bread .............................................................................................................. 79
How The Pioneers Built Their Smokehouses ............................................................................................. 80
Step-by-step Guide on How to Build a Smokehouse The Pioneer Way ................................................. 81
Building The Smoke House .................................................................................................................. 85
How to Smoke Meat The Right Way .................................................................................................... 88
How Sailors from the 17th Century Preserved Water in There Ships for Months on End ........................... 89
Long Term Water Storage .................................................................................................................... 91
Filtering Water Supplies ....................................................................................................................... 96
Instructions on How to Make a Charcoal Japanese Water Filter: ...................................................... 97
Silver Coins .......................................................................................................................................... 98
Rainwater Harvesting ....................................................................................................................... 99
Harvesting Rainwater ......................................................................................................................100
How Our Ancestors Made Candles And Glue out of Pine Resin ...............................................................101
Necessary Ingredients .....................................................................................................................102
Step One: Melting the Resin ...........................................................................................................102
Step Two (Optional): Filtering The Resin .......................................................................................104
Step Three: Making the Candles .....................................................................................................105
How To Make Glue Out of Pine Resin.................................................................................................107
Crush the Charcoal, and Mix It with the Resin ................................................................................108
How the Sheriffs from the Frontiers Defended Their Villages and Towns ................................................111
Crime in the West ................................................................................................................................113
Equipment ...........................................................................................................................................115
Guns ...............................................................................................................................................115
Communications..................................................................................................................................117
Organization ........................................................................................................................................118
The Sheriff ..........................................................................................................................................119
Deputy Sheriffs ...................................................................................................................................120
Posses ..................................................................................................................................................120
Bringing It Up To Date ........................................................................................................................121
Showing the Flag .................................................................................................................................123
Raising a Posse ...............................................................................................................................126
What Our Ancestors Were Foraging For or ..............................................................................................129
How to Wild craft Your Table ..................................................................................................................129
Prickly Lettuce ................................................................................................................................130
Wild Lettuce (One of The Best Natural Painkillers) ........................................................................131
Arrowhead (Sagittaria Latifolia) .....................................................................................................133
Asparagus (Asparagus Officinalis) ..................................................................................................133
Bulrush (Scirpus acutus, Scirpus validus) ........................................................................................135
Cattails (Typha Latifolia, Typha angustifolia) .................................................................................136
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Chickweed, Common ......................................................................................................................138
Chicory (Cichorium Intybus) ..........................................................................................................139
Cleavers ..........................................................................................................................................140
Dandelion (Taraxacum Officinale) ..................................................................................................141
Henbit (Lamium Amplexicaule) ......................................................................................................142
Lady’s Thumb (Polygonum persicaria) ...........................................................................................143
Lambs Quarters (Chenopodium album, Chenopodium berlanieri) ...................................................144
Mint (Mentha piperita, Mentha spicata) ..........................................................................................146
Mulberry (Morus alba, Morus rubra) ...............................................................................................147
Mustard, Black (Brassica Nigra) .....................................................................................................148
Peppergrass (Lapidium Virginicum) ...............................................................................................149
Pigweed (Amaranthus Retroflexus, Amaranthus Hybridus) .............................................................150
Plantain (Plantago major, Plantago minor) ......................................................................................151
Pennycress, Field (Thlaspi Arvense) ...............................................................................................153
Purslane (Portulaca Oleracea) .........................................................................................................154
Quickweed (Galinsoga Parviflora) ..................................................................................................155
Reed Grass (Phragmites communis) ................................................................................................156
Shepherd's Purse (Capsella Bursa-pastoris) .....................................................................................157
Sour Dock (Rumex crispus) ............................................................................................................158
Storksbill (Erodium Cicutarium) .....................................................................................................159
Watercress (Nasturtium Officinale) .................................................................................................160
Making Sourdough and Traditional and Survival Bark Bread ...................................................................162
How to Make Sourdough Starter ..........................................................................................................164
How to Make Tasty Bread Like in 1869 ..............................................................................................166
Making Bark Bread (Famine Bread) ....................................................................................................167
Trapping in Winter for Beaver and Muskrat Just Like Our Forefathers Did ..............................................170
Why Our Forefathers Trapped .............................................................................................................171
The Best Places to Trap for Beaver and Muskrat..................................................................................172
Their Local Habitats ............................................................................................................................173
The Types of Traps You’ll Use for Beaver and Muskrat ......................................................................174
Foot Hold Trap Types .....................................................................................................................175
The Differences Between Long Spring and Coil Spring Traps .............................................................178
Finding the Land Trails .......................................................................................................................179
How to Set the Foot Hold Trap ............................................................................................................180
Finding the Underwater Trails .............................................................................................................181
How to Set a Body Grip Trap ..............................................................................................................181
Tanning ...............................................................................................................................................181
Selling at the Trading Post ..............................................................................................................183
And There You Have It ...................................................................................................................183
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How Our Ancestors Made Herbal Poultice to Heal Their Wounds ............................................................184
What Is a Poultice? ..............................................................................................................................185
A Few Poultice Recipes .......................................................................................................................187
Cataplasma Aromaticum .................................................................................................................188
Soothing Poultice ............................................................................................................................188
For Stomachaches ...........................................................................................................................188
A Mustard Poultice .........................................................................................................................189
A Native American Recipe to Treat an Abscess ..............................................................................189
A Word of Warning from the Past ...................................................................................................190
Our Ancestors’ Guide to Root Cellars ......................................................................................................191
History ................................................................................................................................................192
The Right Space for the Job .................................................................................................................193
Climate ...........................................................................................................................................193
What to Keep Where ...........................................................................................................................195
Creating the Ideal Conditions ..............................................................................................................196
Lighting ..........................................................................................................................................196
Humidity ........................................................................................................................................197
Dirt Floors ......................................................................................................................................197
Wet Cloth or Paper .........................................................................................................................198
Standing Water ...............................................................................................................................198
Bury Your Treasure ........................................................................................................................198
A Condensation Nightmare .............................................................................................................198
Ventilation ......................................................................................................................................199
Storage Ideas .......................................................................................................................................199
In-Garden Storage ...........................................................................................................................200
Insulation ............................................................................................................................................201
Things That Do and Do Not Belong in Your Root Cellar .....................................................................201
Proper Storage .....................................................................................................................................203
Preparing Vegetables for Root Cellar Storage .................................................................................204
Curing Winter Vegetables for Storage .............................................................................................204
Pests ...............................................................................................................................................205
Organization ...................................................................................................................................205
Good Old-Fashioned Cooking on an Open Flame .....................................................................................208
Cast Iron Cooking ...............................................................................................................................209
Care and Use...................................................................................................................................210
Seasoning Your Cookery ................................................................................................................210
Never Use Dish Soap ......................................................................................................................210
Iron Rusts .......................................................................................................................................211
No Fire ...........................................................................................................................................211
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Companion Tools............................................................................................................................212
Roasting Meats ....................................................................................................................................212
On a Spit .........................................................................................................................................212
On a String .....................................................................................................................................213
Dutch Oven Cooking ...........................................................................................................................214
The Right Temperature ...................................................................................................................215
Companion Tools............................................................................................................................217
Recipes Past and Future .......................................................................................................................217
Colcannon.......................................................................................................................................218
Meat Pies ........................................................................................................................................218
Mock-mock Turtle Soup .................................................................................................................219
Wassail ...........................................................................................................................................219
Apple Pie ........................................................................................................................................220
Biscuits and Gravy ..........................................................................................................................221
Easter Cake .....................................................................................................................................222
Porridge ..........................................................................................................................................222
Stew................................................................................................................................................223
Bread ..............................................................................................................................................223
Shadow Tip Method ............................................................................................................................225
Watch Method .....................................................................................................................................226
Using the Stars ....................................................................................................................................227
Letting the Sun Guide You ..................................................................................................................229
Letting the Moon Guide You at Night..................................................................................................230
Moss and Other Vegetation .................................................................................................................230
Making a Compass ..............................................................................................................................230
Making Beer - Basic Recipe ................................................................................................................233
Equipment ......................................................................................................................................233
Ingredients ......................................................................................................................................234
Creating the Malt: Malted Barley ....................................................................................................234
Making the Yeast ............................................................................................................................235
A Word on Hops .............................................................................................................................235
Making the Beer .............................................................................................................................236
A Bit of the Stronger Stuff: Distilling Your Own “Moonshine" ...........................................................237
Making a Still .................................................................................................................................237
An Alembic Still .............................................................................................................................238
A Homemade Still ...........................................................................................................................239
A Schematic of a Homemade Still...................................................................................................241
Sailors .................................................................................................................................................241
Wild West Guns for SHTF How They Made Gunpowder and a Guide to Rolling Your Own Ammo ........243
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