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ramrod rolls. Margaret Mitchell described this military ra- tion in Gone With the Wind (1936). “The men added as des- sert some ‘ramrod rolls’ from their knapsacks, and this was the first time Scarlett had ever seen this Confederate article of diet about which there were almost as many jokes as about lice. They were charred spirals of what appeared to be wood. The men dared her to take a bite and, when she did, she dis- covered that beneath the smoke-blackened surface was un- salted corn bread. The soldiers mixed their ration of corn meal with water, and salt too when they could get it, wrapped the thick paste about their ramrods and roasted the mess over camp fires. It was as hard as rock candy and tasteless as sawdust . . .” |