Theme:

• The soldier's diet affected not only his health, but his morale as well.

 

Goals:

• To discuss the soldier's diet and methods of cooking with the students.
• To show that supplements to the basic army ration improved the soldier's health and his morale.

Objectives: After participating in this program, the students will be able to:

• Name three basic food items that the army provided soldiers.
• Tell two ways that the soldier supplemented his diet (e.g. hunting, gardens, sutler store)
• Explain that cooking was a fatigue duty rotated among the soldiers.
• Define open-hearth cooking.

Suggested Activities:

• Pass herbs around for the children to smell.
• Do a show and tell of the soldier's rations-eg. have the various items of the ration sat out on a table. Due to health codes, we cannot allow samples of food to be given to the children.
• Have children peek in the kitchen and identify items found in their kitchens at home that are
  not in the kitchen at the fort..

Overview	Program Outline	Tools of the Trade	Regulations	Historical Background
Rations	Starting Fire	Gardens	Open Hearth	Spices
		Cooking