Posted by: benjammin
Christmas cookie tins as survival food - 12/14/13 06:14 AM
Just opened a tin of those Christmas cookies made of some sort of shortbread, from a year ago. Still fresh and tasty. Well sealed, and only a few broke, despite being hauled overland from New Mexico to Alaska. Maybe not the most nutritious, but a few of these would be a pleasant addition to any survival diet.
Posted by: wildman800
Re: Christmas cookie tins as survival food - 12/14/13 06:17 AM
I get a fresh fruit cake for each BoB & my E&E Bag each Christmas Season. Those darn things seem to stay preserved for ever!!
Posted by: benjammin
Re: Christmas cookie tins as survival food - 12/14/13 06:21 AM
Yep, even moreso if they are "maintained" with regular doses of rum or brandy.
Posted by: hikermor
Re: Christmas cookie tins as survival food - 12/14/13 04:04 PM
Speaking as an archaeologist, I can attest that corn kernels, beans, squash, and various other plant seeds can survive for hundreds of years if they are kept, dry and in the dark (buried) even without special packaging. Don't know how they would taste, though - we generally had better breakfast options. Sealed in a cookie tin and replenished with brandy, you ought to have something really fine....
Meat products didn't do nearly as well, even if dehydrated.
Posted by: BruceZed
Re: Christmas cookie tins as survival food - 12/21/13 01:10 AM
Nothing Wrong with Shortbread in a either a Survival Situation or a pleasant Holiday Snack...Merry Christmas!
Posted by: Russ
Re: Christmas cookie tins as survival food - 12/21/13 02:11 AM
I'm not a fan a shortbread although I s'pose it would go well with coffee... Now Fruitcake is another matter altogether; I love a good fruitcake and I don't understand why folks diss them. I would not necessarily recommend fruitcake with coffee
Someone mentioned rum -- one of the conversations we had here was when we should bake the New Year's Rum Cake. It will be gone before New Years
If you are looking for a survival food, do not choose Rum Cake
Posted by: haertig
Re: Christmas cookie tins as survival food - 12/21/13 03:47 AM
I get a "fresh" "fruit cake" for each BoB & my E&E Bag each Christmas Season.
Is it even legal to use those words in the same sentence?
Those darn things seem to stay preserved for ever!
Common wisdom has it that there have only been 4 fruit cakes ever made. And they just keep getting circulated from family to family every Christmas since 1917. I think I may have one out in the garage buried under the tractor parts. I need to go dig it up and mail to somebody.
Posted by: hikermor
Re: Christmas cookie tins as survival food - 12/21/13 04:15 AM
"I think I may have one out in the garage buried under the tractor parts. I need to go dig it up and mail to somebody."
Now you've got the archaeologist interested. Perhaps we can do some radiocarbon dating to see how old it really is....