I get a kick out of seeing how people in times long before ours lived. And mostly, I love to eat the food at such events.
This weekend was my first visit to Ocali Country Days, and it was much like I expected; similar to an event in Orlando called Pioneer Days. I enjoyed learning and seeing how Florida settlers lived in the 1800s.
My only critique is there should have been more food from the Cracker days.
I ate a lot of different things while I was there, and probably the most authentic thing was the one item I didn't even pay for. A reenactor used a pit filled with coals and a cast-iron dutch oven to bake buttermilk biscuits.
Wow. Those biscuits were one of the best things I have ever eaten, honestly. They were steaming hot and so soft they were falling apart. Topped with fresh, hand-churned butter, I couldn't stop stealing samples. The reenactor said that at one event they topped them with local honey; I didn't think the biscuits could possibly be any better until he told us that.
I am definitely trying out this unique cooking method on my next camping trip, hopefully in a couple of weeks.
Other than that, I had sugar cane (yum), fresh lemonade, kettle corn, funnel cake and baked goods from a boyscout bake sale (only because I felt bad for the boys because they weren't selling much).
The funnel cake was really good, and was prepared in cast iron skillets: something I had never seen before.
Although there wasn't as much food as I had hoped for, I still walked away happy, with my sweet tooth fulfilled for the day and enough sugar cane to keep it that way.
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