Message boards on cooking. Our new website devoted to Texas books, travel, people and culture. Our newsletter arrives informing you of news, new recipes, and more updates to our web sites. B. Y ou might think of the pioneer days in Texas as being drab and uninteresting when it came time to eat.
Most folks imagine that the pioneers sat around their campfires eating beef jerky and corn dodgers.
Well, it was a little better than that. In fact, the pioneers had a full set of sweet teeth per person. The folks in Stephen F. Austin's colony between the Brazos and Colorado Rivers were producing sugar for the table as early as the 1830's. Most of their sugar production was for home consumption since exporting anything was rather difficult. South Texas around Fort Bend County turned out to be prime country for raising sugar cane.