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- Title:
- Stocking for Two Years
- Description:
- The bastimiento (provisions) of the Armada de Maluco for 2 years included roughly 1,293 kilos of cheese; 3,220 liters, vinegar; 207 kilos, dried fish; 140 barrels, anchovies; 2,626 kilos, aged bacon; 1,547 liters, dried beans; 2,985 liters, chickpeas; 218 liters, lentils; 73 kilos, rice; 5 containers each weighing 381 kilos, flour; 250 ristras (a strung measure), garlic; salt in unspecified numbers of cahices (1 cahiz equaled 437 liters); capers; mustard; olive oil (32.3 liters alotted per person for 2 years); honey; sugar; raisins, prunes, dried figs; quince made into a sweetened preserve; wine, water; 905.78 kilos of sea biscuit per person; 3 live pigs and 6 live cows for butchering on board. There was no position for butcher or cook and no enclosed kitchen or dining room.
- Subjects:
- Armada de Maluco bastimiento
- Exhibition:
- Magellan Menu
- Source:
- Collectible quincentennial coin.
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/png
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Stocking for Two Years", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll002.html