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1 POLAR This Enrichment4You E-guide focuses on the food and drink common during the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration In this e-guide you will: *Read a Brief History about the Food and Drink on the Journey *Create a Polar Exploration Inspired Meal *Recreate a Vintage Recipe Booklet ENRICHMENT4YOU Published by Henrich Incorporated Copyright 2008 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without first obtaining the written permission of the copyright owner.

2 TABLE OF CONTENTS Enrichment guides in the Polaris Chronicles Polar Exploration Series - Page i A Brief Overview About Food & Drink - Pages 1-4. Activities: Create a Polar Exploration Inspired Meal - Pages How to Make a Vintage Recipe Booklet - Pages INTRODUCTION The purpose of this Enrichment4You e-guide is to provide information, inspiration, ideas and techniques to learn more about the food and drink carried by many during expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic. Within the pages of this e-guide you will read a brief overview about different types of foods and drinks available to the expedition members, follow a step-by-step recipes to create a Polar Expedition Inspired Meal and recreate a Vintage Recipe Booklet. Do not feel limited in the selection of suggested materials or techniques. Your finished menu will incorporate food and drink based on actual food available during the Heroic Age. You may even create your own original menu once you learn the basic recipes. Have fun and be creative.

3 ENRICHMENT GUIDES IN THE POLARIS CHRONICLES - POLAR SERIES The title highlighted in blue represents the content of this enrichment guide. The Polaris Chronicles - Polar Exploration - Create a Polar Mystery Box Polar Exploration - Creating a Polar Exploration Box & Cards *Make a Polar Exploration Box *Make embellished cards detailing facts about the Heroic Age of Exploration Polar Exploration - Archaeology *Read a Brief History about Archaeology of the Arctic and Antarctic *How to Antique Paper *How to Make a Vintage Journal Polar Exploration - Food & Drink *Read a Brief History about the Food and Drink on the Journey *Create a Polar Exploration Inspired Meal *Recreate a Vintage Recipe Booklet Polar Exploration - Geology *Read a Brief History about the Geology of the Arctic and Antarctic *Decoupage a Small Box with Vintage Polar Illustrations *Make a 3-D Polar Vignette Polar Exploration - Natural History *Read a Brief History about the Natural History of the Arctic and Antarctic *Make a Natural History Display Box *Make a Faux Miniature Fossil Container Polar Exploration - Paper Relics *Read a Brief History about Paper Relics of the Arctic and Antarctic *Make Paper Relics including: Make an Antique Transmittal Envelope Faux Wax Seal Make a Faux Wax Seal Collection How to Make Vintage Cartes de Visite & Cabinet Cards i

4 The Heroic Age of Polar Exploration A brief history of Polar Food Water Fresh water was essential for survival. Storing and carrying water was a cumbersome task. Sea ice is salty, but glacial ice, iceberg fragments, and snow were sources of fresh water. To melt these frozen sources of fresh water polar explorers had to have matches, cooking pots and usually kerosene stoves. Planning for all possible scenarios was one of the major tasks that required careful thought for any of the expeditions to the Polar Regions. Although many on the journeys planned to supplement their meals with penguin, seal, and fish, it was still necessary to bring many day to day food items. The following is a list of items which was discovered written on a piece of paper detailing some of the items included during an expedition: 143 cans of consolidated pea soup 22 tin boxes containing phosphorus matches (which we re planning to write about shortly) Two knee high Russian felt boots and a fine rubber Wellington boot Remains of cloth including a woolen T-shirt with the name tag B. Armytage Several rectangular cotton sledging ration bags Copper pipes from a Nansen cooker And a seal skull Source - 1

5 Besides canned food items, powdered food was also carried. Several companies had discovered a way to dry and then powder or dehydrate food. One of these individuals was William Symington. He developed pea flour which became a mainstay of Victorian and Edwardian cooks. Pea Soup Symington s pea flour offered many advantages including its ease for being stored and carried. The soup became a favored item of the military and was a popular food item of British soldiers during the Crimean War ( ). The company first was established in 1827 in Market Harborough in Leicestershire England. The pea flour was often added to dishes to add both flavor and nutrition. The advantage of the dried soup was storage and its ability to be made in a few minutes just by adding water and heating the mixture. Eventually, Symington also made other dehydrated foods including custard powders, jellies, and table creams W. Symington & Co. Ltd. was commissioned to provide supplies of pea flour and pea soup to Captain Scott for his first expedition to the Antarctic. Explorers often placed provisions in small cabins or shelters located in strategic locations with the idea that if they ran into difficulties they would have a source of food and other equipment. One polar explorer, Sir Robert Falcon Scott had included pea flour as part of his food inventory. During an excavation 50 years later of one of Scott s food stores, his supply of pea flour was discovered and it was still usable. Unfortunately, Scott perished and never reached his provisions. 2

6 Since many polar expeditions required sponsorships, explorers would allow their names to be included in advertisements. The following excerpt is taken from the following web site which details how Captain Scott used his reputation to gain funds through advertisement: The Captain Scott story is perhaps the most exciting for me. Whilst searching for information on one of the more obscure brands, Lemco a beef extract made by the company which created Oxo in 1900 I was surprised to find it mentioned in books about the explorers Scott and Shackleton. When I looked at the official accounts of the expeditions, they contained eulogies to the wonders of various branded foods. The great Edwardian explorers realized that they could use their fame to get free supplies for their expeditions. Scott s team actually posed for cheesy publicity shots, holding mugs of cocoa or tins of baked beans. This sort of mutually beneficial arrangement still exists today - a real Edwardian innovation. Scott even visited factories to see products packed up for his 1910 British Antarctic Expedition. When the explorers unpacked at their base camp in Antarctica, employees of Fry s Chocolate had put good luck notes in the cases of cocoa. Scott s hut still survives in Antarctica, stuffed with Edwardian packaged food not just a monument to Scott, but also to the birth of commercial sponsorship. Image is of Captain Scott and his expedition team 3