Hoosh
Hoosh is the name for soup-like stews, as they were typical for the Antarctic expeditions at the beginning of the 20th century.
The preparation mostly took place in the Primus cooker . The composition of a hoosh varied depending on the availability of food. Mostly it was made by boiling pemmican with water and adding hard, gluten- solidified biscuits . To improve the taste, you also cooked bacon , cheese , pea flour , sugar or oat flakes . It also often contained raisins and meat from penguins , seals and ponies .
Apsley Cherry-Garrard uses the term frequently in his report The World's Worst Journey , even for the mixed diet for ponies and mules. Ernest Shackleton's report The Heart of the Antarctic on the Nimrod Expedition contains this expression more than 40 times, which was previously used in Robert Falcon Scott's book The Voyage of the Discovery on the Discovery Expedition .
During the Great Depression of 1929, the term was used in English slang for illegal alcohol. Later it generalized in English and was used as a substitute for any noun , German something like Dingsbums .
Individual evidence
- ^ Beau Riffenburgh: Nimrod , (translated by Sebastian Vogel), Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-82700530-2 , p. 114.
Web links
- Robert Falcon Scott : The Voyage of the Discovery , Vol. II, MacMillan, London 1905 (accessed September 11, 2009).
- Ernest Shackleton : The Heart of the Antarctic , William Heinemann, London 1910 (accessed September 11, 2009)