The beginning of each journey was the time when pirates enjoyed the freshest and most tasty foods of their time at sea. The start of each trip the pirate ship would be well stocked with meat, cheese, vegetables, eggs and more. Many times, live chickens were brought onto the ships and kept on board for their eggs. Even larger animals such as cows or goats were essential in order to provide milk and cheese for the crew.
Once the regular food supply dwindled and some of the food began to spoil or go bad, many times even the cows, goats and chickens were butchered so that their meat could be fed to the pirate crew. In order to help make food taste better in general, pirate ship cooks heavily flavored their meals by using lots of herbs and spices.
In addition, they often pickled or salted meat and vegetables to extend their shelf life for as long as possible. For pirate ships on extended voyages, pirate crew often ended up getting by on minimal diet of dry biscuits, dried beans and salted beef.
During this time, pirates would eat a range of food , including cheese, eggs, vegetables and meat, and enjoy hearty meals on the pirate ship. After a month or so, most of the fresh food supplies would have spoiled and gone rotten, meaning that pirates would have to survive on dried supplies.
Chickens were kept for their eggs and cows would provide milk. When it was difficult to keep the animals alive, they would be slowly eaten one by one. All of this was thrown into a pot and seasoned. The meats would be roasted, chopped into pieces and marinated in spied wine, then mixed with cabbage, anchovies, pickled herring, mangoes, hard-boiled eggs, palm hearts, onions, olives, grapes and any other pickled vegetable available.
The entire concoction would then be highly seasoned with garlic, salt, pepper, and mustard seed and soaked with oil and vinegar. One would assume that pirates would make a hearty diet out of the seafood that could be found basically all around them.
National Geographic says that pirates consumed tons of alcohol, mainly because it was very available and did not go bad as quickly as water did on board more on that in a minute. They particularly loved beer, ale, and rum. Also, it probably helped them pass the time and soothe their nerves when things got rough out on the open waters. Pirate Ship says that the fresh water that they would pack in the beginning of their journey would quickly go bad the salt water and air and the seawater led to the fresh water getting full of green scum, slime, and algae.
Not too bad! Maybe even still drinkable today! In order to keep themselves from dying of starvation, they did what they had to do, and would end up eating their own leather satchels. They cut their satchels up, soaked them, beat them with stones to make them softer, scraped off the hair, then roasted or grilled them. Get the cookbook. Internet Archive Book Images. By: Jessica Booth. Because of this, they had to become resourceful and creative with their food.
Basically every part of a cow and a chicken was eaten while on board. Pirates liked their victuals hearty and spicy too. Bits of meat, fish, turtle, and shellfish were marinated in a mixture of herbs, palm hearts, garlic, spiced wine, and oil, and then served with hard-boiled eggs and pickled onions, cabbage, grapes, and olives.
Cordingly And after a Storme [sic], when poor men are all wet, and some of them have not so much as a cloth to shift them, shaking with cold, few of those but will tell you a little sherry or aqua-vitae is much better to keep them in health, than a little small Beer, or cold water. The ordinary food was universally atrocious. The water stank, the meat and fish were rotten, the biscuits were infested with large black-headed weevil maggots.
The men could bring themselves to eat only in the dark.
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