Cruise provisioning

[GHA]

Surprised no one’s mentioned the packets of microwave rice. Does not need to be microwaved, just boil a kettle and pour it over the rice, leave for a couple of minutes.

Pressure cooker is great for (lots of things including) rice. Wine glass brown rice, wineglass and a quarter water. Add splash of oil to stop foaming, high heat to hissing then lower heat to slight hiss for 10 minutes, gas off and leave till pressure goes down. Perfect cheap tasty healthy every time.

Pressure cooker great for canning as well, Make batch of yer favourite stew or whatever into kilner jars and follow google canni g instructions. Lasts for ages.

 

[Frank Holden]

Tinned meat in any form should be avoided.... I made a bad mistake once... took on board 12 tins of Spam for a long sea voyage .... took ten years to shift them... and that had to be done with the aid of unsuspecting hungry crew....
Some time later... in Uruguay... home of corned beef... slow learner... bought some tins.... ended up processing them through marina dogs.....

And never ever ever even consider Hormel Picnic Ham..... read the lable once... 'contains mechanical processed chicken'.... look it up but not just prior to sitting down for your dins.....

 

[Sandy]

Fixed that for you

Did you? While you may not like haggis both the original posted and I love it as part of a varied diet, it is a tasty dish that can be quickly cooked on a cold day. We find tinned haggis is loaded with fat and not made with the highest quality ingredients.

 

[Boathook]

Gin, rum.:very_drunk:

Missed out tonic, coke, lemon and crisps!

 

[TLouth7]

I quite like a civilized anchorage within walking distance of a nice pub.

You're doing anchoring wrong...

Dhal, risotto, ratatouille can all be done with ingredients that last well outside the fridge. For meat consider smoked bacon (ideally dry cure from a butcher) or some form of charcuterie such as chorizo.

I quite like wraps rather than sandwiches for lunch because: they don't get squashed, they last well, they come in smaller quantities than a loaf.

Alternatively a couple of pints of frozen milk, two half frozen loaves and some ice packs will keep a cool-box reasonable for several days, depending on how frequently you remove beers from it.

 

[jamie N]

Stakkr cruising breakfast; fresh coffee and a par-baked bread roll, baked whilst topped with mackerel & camembert. Of course, sailing solo is an necessary advantage of this menu!

 

[oldmanofthehills]

Packets of precooked rice preferably Tilda, various flavours. Packets of Dal and similar vegetable curries. Fresh rice for paella. Chinese sauces and curry sauces for cooking with fresh meat of fish. Potatoes, tinned tomatos, tinned fish usually mackerel & mussels, tinned grape fruit, tinned peas. Onions, biscuits and crackers. Preserved ginger for seasickness. Haribo sweets for sugar such at night or when fatigued. Tea, longlife milk or soya, sugar, camomile tea to ease stomach and help sleeping. Beer, brandy, rum, wine.

And of course harbour guides and pub guides to enable us to buy fresh food, fresh tins or even a meal out.

 

[guernseyman]

Tinned kippers for breakfast either with parbaked bread or in kedgeree. Great for those dawn starts.

 

[newtothis]

I just ask the steward to get cook to rustle something up.

 

[Kukri]

OK. Frank knows where this comes from

Good for 5 men for 4 months, or 4 men for 5 months, or two men for ten months, or one man for a very long time..

20 gallons of paraffin in Jerry cans on deck.
300 gallons of water, more if you can stow it.
24 x 1lb tins Pilchards
60 x 1/4lb tins Sardines
2lbs Curry Powder
24 x 5oz jars Tomato Purée
85 lbs Plain Flour
60 lbs cheese, in olive oil in plastic containers
24 x 1/2lbs jars Peanut Butter
5lbs dried Tomato Soup
Ditto Asparagus ,,
Ditto Pea ,,
3lbs Baking Powder
2 gallons olive oil
6 jars Barley Sugar
3 jars Picallilli
6 ditto Chutney
2 ditto Mixed Pickles
6 ditto Tabasco Sauce
7lbs Lentils
8 lbs Lard
5 lbs Suet
10lbs Dried Carrots
Ditto Cabbage
3lbs table salt
4oz mixed herbs
1lb mixed spice
7lbs raisins
Ditto sultanas
96 x 12 oz cans Fray Bentos corned beef
24 x 1lbs Sausages
24 x 12 oz Spam
I cwt Sugar
14 lbs dried egg
28 lbs dried milk
Ditto Macaroni
Ditto Rice
4lbs cocoa
12 x 4oz Marmite
6 dozen packets Oxo cubes
15 x 2lbs tins Marmalade
20 x ditto Jam
6 x ditto Golden Syrup
52 x 1/4 lbs Tea
24 x jars Instant Coffee
36 x 2lbs rolled oats
7lbs dried prunes
Ditto apples
Ditto apricots
72 x 1lbs tins Butter
1 Cwt potatoes
1/2 Cwt onions
Dozen hard White cabbages
Cwt twice baked bread
15 packs Ryvita.
2lbs black pepper corns.

 

[Frank Holden]

Hello Andrew, not a lot of diff between that list of Tilman's from the mid 60s and one of mine today.
Delete the tinned meat and replace with vacuum packed .
Replace dried milk with UHT.
Replace sardines and pilchards with tuna for fish pies .
Ship real eggs instead of dried.
And take tinned fruit instead of dried.... plus tinned peas, beans, mushrooms, tomatoes diced and whole.
Plus a lot of fresh on departure.... tomatoes , bananas, oranges, apples, avocadoes.

And a frozen chicken...

 

[Kukri]

Thanks, Frank. Can you still get tinned butter? It seems to have vanished. It was regular Anchor and it tasted just the same as fresh. The twice baked bread wasn’t brilliant.

 

[michael_w]

Onions.
Parkin, easy to make at home and keeps forever; nicer than flajacks and gooey gingerbread.
Tinned potatoes useful.
Chorizo doesn't need refrigeration.

On tinned butter I've got a couple of tins lurking which have been across the Atlantic 3 times now. :ambivalence:

 

[RupertW]

This all says so much about people's normal eating habits. If there is a fridge (or cool box with regular ice top ups) the answer for food is exactly what you would want to eat at home or if you hired a holiday cottage.

 

[Kukri]

Thanks for the tip on parkin.

Arthur Beale sell Danish ships’ biscuits, but I find them rather sweet.

 

[Frank Holden]

Thanks, Frank. Can you still get tinned butter? It seems to have vanished. It was regular Anchor and it tasted just the same as fresh. The twice baked bread wasn’t brilliant.

You can still buy tinned butter in NZ... mainly at airports... much favoured by celestials...

I had it first time to Chile ... didn't bother second time... arrived in Chile with fresh spuds, cheese, butter, etc...

Had a bit of a win in May of last year... yacht pulled into P Williams from NZ.... with damage...

Caught the owner about to chuck a swag of NZ butter and cheese into a skip.....

We ate the last of the 'Mainland' cheese in late November.... we still have a few kilos of 'fresh' kiwi butter to work our way through......

 

[Frank Holden]

Ah.... Haggis....

Some years ago I was tasked with entertaining a Norwegian shipmaster for a few days in northern Tasmania....

Driving along we passed an establishment selling 'mutton birds'.... I suggested we buy some....

'What's a mutton bird.....?'

'Oh ... its a sooty or short tailed shearwater... they smoke them... and then pack them in barrels of oil.... its a local delicacy...'

'In Norway we have a local delicacy... Cod's Tongue... you can stow your Tasmanian delicacies........

I believe Haggis is a 'local delicacy'.... along with some strange things the locals do with herring...

 

[johnalison]

I believe Haggis is a 'local delicacy'.... along with some strange things the locals do with herring...

Doing unspeakable things to herring was a Scots habit for a long time past. When the Danish island of Christianso was garrisoned by Scots troops some time in the early 19thC the skill of pickling herring was passed on to the locals on this tiny island. They still make herring to a local recipe which is delicious and a lot spicier than other Baltic recipes, and also keeps well for several months. You can get Scots herring in Waitrose.

 

[mjcoon]

You can still buy tinned butter in NZ... mainly at airports... much favoured by celestials...

Aren't they more likely to frequent spaceports than airports?

Mike.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Thanks, Frank. Can you still get tinned butter? It seems to have vanished.

The last place I saw it for sale was in Jenner's food hall in Edinburgh, 15 years ago.