Dec 29th – Pepper Pot Day
Posted by admin on December 30, 2010 under Fun Facts, George Washington Fun Facts | 
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They call it “the soup that won the war.”
That’s because legend has it that on Dec. 29, 1777, with the Continental Army exhausted and hungry from fighting through an exceptionally harsh winter at Valley Forge, Gen. George Washington turned to his army’s chef, Christopher Ludwick, for a meal to boost morale and warm the troops.
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