[ARC5] Army Cook Book

[Clare Owens]

My father was in the NY National Guard for several years, joining a few
years after WW I.  He was a cook and volunteered to stay at summer camp for
several weeks after his unit returned to Buffalo.  He described how they
made breakfast and other meals for the troops so the cook book was a treat
to read.  In those days he was able to check out a Springfield rifle on his
days off and spend the day shooting on the ranges.  He told me to sign up
in the Army Reserve as a cook but they made me take X-Ray training, the
second longest active duty there was at the time in the medical corps.  Oh
Well...

Clare


On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Mike Everette <radiocompass at yahoo.com>wrote:

> A bit of historical trivia for what it may be worth...
>
> My Dad served in the CBI theater during WW2.  He didn't get to leave for
> home until late April or early May of 1946, on the next-to-last troopship
> from India to New York.
>
> So, he was in-country in November 1945.
>
> He said that for Thanksgiving in 1945, they were served frozen turkey.
>
> It had been frozen in 1918.
>
> Dad would have been in a position to know, for certain, because once his
> Signal Corps duties wound down after flight ops over the Hump ceased, he
> worked in the enlisted men's club on his base and oversaw food prep.  They
> fixed somewhat the same stuff as the regular mess hall, although trying to
> do a little better by it.
>
> 73
>
> Mike
> W4DSE
>
>
> --- On Mon, 4/1/13, Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
> > Subject: [ARC5] Army Cook Book
> > To: "ARC-5 List" <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
> > Date: Monday, April 1, 2013, 4:38 PM
> >     Those interested in
> > Army cooking can find a WW-1 vintage cook book at
> >
> > http://archive.org/details/manualforarmycoo1917unit
> >
> >     The recipe for chipped beef on toast is on p.
> > 183 Supposedly the first Army cookbook with the recipe was
> > dated 1910.  I found links to it via Google but could
> > not download it. The recipe requires chipped beef but does
> > not describe how to make it. That might be elsewhere in the
> > book.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Richard Knoppow
> > Los Angeles
> > WB6KBL
> > dickburk at ix.netcom.com
> >
> >
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