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Weekly Menu on the Clifton

As we approach our holiday meals this year, I thought you folks might be interested in seeing what a marine said the weekly menu was on board the steamer Clifton as they prepared to attack the forts below New Orleans in April 1862:

Monday—Pork & Beans

Tuesday—Salt Horse & Duff

Wednesday—Pork & Beans & Pickles

Thursday—Preserved Roast Beef, Desiccated Potatoes, Butter

Friday—Pork & Beans & Pickles

Saturday—Salt Horse & Duff

Sunday—Preserved Meat, Rice, Mixed Vegetables, Butter

My understanding is that salt horse is salted beef and that duff is a dough-like flour pudding or dumpling.

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