From the history books:
Sunday, September 13th, 2015 
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I’m researching traveling across the Atlantic Ocean in the early 1800’s–what passengers should bring for such a journey, in particular. The book I’m reading says steerage passengers by law are required to bring 80 lbs of meat each (80 lbs! How does all that keep for a sail across the Atlantic?!). It also says:
Eggs to be kept in Bran and frequently turned, 10 lbs butter, Milk will keep if boiled and mixed with sugar in the proportion of 2 1bs to the quart.[…] If there are females in the party there should be some fowls.
Interesting ways to keep Eggs and Milk fresh. Huh.
But wait! Why only bring fowl if there are women in your party? I would love to ask this author the logic behind that…
September 13th, 2015 at 8:43 pm · Link
WOW~ I don’t know how one person could eat 80 pounds of meat! How long is this passage? That is a lot of food! The milk they are pretty much creating sweetened condensed milk. Interesting research! Thanks for sharing!
September 20th, 2015 at 9:35 pm · Link
@Lisa – they said to plan for 70 days for the passage, so I guess around 1 lb of meat per day. Seems like a lot, but I guess when you’re at sea for 70 days, it gets eaten!