Show TOUEliES OF AN ARmY GOO j Breezy Account of the Curious Experiences Of a Chef In I Uncle Sams Military ServiceWbat a Buzacott Is Advantage of a Canteen Fund To the Privates Of COUlro wc had all had the articles of warread to us secral times and I remember dJs1nctly that pasageabout any soldierwho hires another to perform per-form his duty EJhall f1Uffer peXJaltles as a I eourtmartfa1 sflaU direct but when I Percy Elliott offczd me a Jher to take his turn on the weekly cook detail de-tail I must have forgotten the admonition ad-monition oreise Percy5ooffer was be for the tlmp of the reading At any rate I arcepte the fie and the job I did not Itnew any more about cook fng than did Perey Hc had assisted a certain Mint PiC1tCe 60 he sa4d ata some stale hominy grits These oats I served after a receipt of my own Being questioned by the boys as to the ingredient of the stew I told them It was those 11Omln grits that every I other cool had passed up This gave me a prestige and when I secretly traded our surplus green coffee for a halfbarrel of cabbage and placed on the Issue board a fine article of cold slaw my job as company cook was secure se-cure Many of the boys marveled much that I smoked a great many cigars before be-fore pay day but there are secrets in every business Suppose the trade t I I Ii i I I I I TEE ARMY COOK MAKING BISCUITS hafing dit1 part That i5 he probably prob-ably held the little cook boole that goes nth the chafing dish while he read off the rocll and for all I know he mlght have held her hand while File lb hi the book at any rate he in cOIl fidncc assured me that the experi 1C he arquired would be of no practi caj benefit to him In cooking for the ISS as TIoquef011 cheese Halfor same etc were not included in the g v prnmentts repertoire of rations Be kS as Percy told me hi father who as lresident of the Citizen Trust ctnpany was going to get him a comP com-P FFifl and he must devote his time to 1 oo1ll ing up for the new duties he was Ffl to assume Before going farther 1 might add That Percy shoed great Z 1 as to the loading but I dont recall re-call as 10 the comnliofl Probably his father did not 0 at his part nih the SHme eal as dd Percy An Army CJoks itrary I succleded Algy Lucas on tile cook dafl fortunately for dIe eommer tJ F Algys turn came just after pay dy and as most of the boys were eating don at the sutlers his snort c 1Jlngs were not so noticeable Algy must have had an awful time of it i r Vilflt 111 turned over the keys to tw I1IPEH chest he also handed me a Jt111Jhlet got out by the Rawer llak irg Powder company containing some T pps as well as advertisements of tlk merits c4 Haiser Baking Iow dr He al1 gave me UYhi1e1ml1s Mal1ual for Betel Cooks and one vol ume entitled Cooking for Profit or Light Weeks at a Summer Resort Wtii many a sigh Algy confessed that t11 hooks furnished no solution to the prlJlem The baling powder people only gave recipes for such articles as contained ther marvelous product In ti1 betel manual AlS could not dis tng11sh between an entree and a buillon while the man who eooled f profit Confillf l1imself tOo hash bread puddings and such things I con I were profitable to the grocerymen was I not likewise benefited Thus I started to acquire the know edge that I am about to give to the world How well I succeeded may be jUdged from the fact that I never again shouldered a musket and when the discharges and final pay came the three cheers that were given for the cook and his punk assuaged the pangs of parting It is not intended that the few recipes given here shall be of great benefit to civilian caterers Surely the storm of epithets and vials of wrath that have been poured out against army cooks would warn anyone against adopting their methods or menu unles they contemplated secret murder or the dist dis-t ciplining of a few boarders yet I believe be-lieve that the present and future wives of the heroes of 98 ought to have in their Jossession the means to cure these recalcitrants should they become possessed pos-sessed with a morbid desire to get back into the service To speak in a more serious vein I dont believe half of the slanderous articles ar-ticles on Army Cooking Th writers are either prompted in their utterances 1y the greene ed monster or else some disgruntled persons knowing that cooks generally were effeminate and unarmed save with that elY potent weaponhot watestanll off at a long I range and lay all the blame on these mute but valiant mImbers of the department of subsistence The doctors say that these morbid creatures are sufferin from eacotro phy They certainly are suffering from something and from the name I I should think they had it bad I In the production of the dishes given here it is necessary to use a buzacott i outfit and a canteen fund The bus I acott is used in lieu of the tripod or the pole and forked sticks while the canteen fund is indispensable in the production of almost all palatable dishes I can well understand why the i government waved the prohibitionists I pans three small stew pans three sheetiron pails longhandled forks and spoons one large knife and one meat cleaver I The rations issued to an army in the field are sometimes about as follows Bacon the specifications usually call for canvascased the article is usually cheese clothcased cold storage meat twice or three times a week hardtack fresh bread or its equivalent in flour beans rice homlru coffee sugar salt pepper potatoes canned tomatoes bar soap and candles VIth these tools and materials I laid the foundation of my greatness A Soldiers Recipes Beef SoupTake that portion of the meat issued that remains after the breakfast fries have been cut off and put into the largest boiler add water to cover the meat and boil slowly for I to and a half hours keeping the meat i well covered then take meat out of v05gel and add enough water w make 100 quarts of soup empty into the yes 501 two Ithreepound cans of tomatoes anti four ounces of ground pepper and serve hot Have nOo fears as to the pepper pep-per To guard against an overdose the manufacturers have kindly stirred in ground cooanut hulls Soldiers StaffBoil six pounds oC dried beans for two hours add two pounds of bacon and continue the boiling boil-ing for two hours take out bacon and maSil beans thorougl1ly add water to make 100 pins of soUl I Miss Mary who revittes my manu ScrIpt expresses doubt as to tile name soldiers staff She is not certain if I Its philology traces to its being so nourishing as to support life or I whether Its resemblance to staff a brown viscous mass out of whicl1 terra I cotta statuary is made is responsible i for the name I Friend TackEreal 100 eggs into a sixgallon camp kettle stir in enough I flour to lose the identity of both egg and flour into this batter dip 00 hard I tack and drop into a baking pan half full of hot grease previously obtaIned from bacon fyingF Fry tacit to a I seal hiownand nerve hot Howto Make a Cuban Omelet Cuban OmeletRoil for four hours ten pounds or navy beans leaving plea ty of liquor to this add foUl three pound cans of tomatoes boil an atldt tional fifteen minutt then add two r pailfuls of cItlmbed hardtack stir well and bring to a brown by putting cover on pan and heaping coals of fire on cover The discovery of this yen delicious dish was an accident I was > boiling SOup far dinner and had a fiat pan or beans on rear of stove intending to have them for supper One of my aids decuisine was told to empty a counle of caln1 of tomatoes Into the soup Like I many an army order It was mlslnter i prlted for when I raised the coyer to look after my bean enterprise I fount i themin the inaslarable enlbraee of two I cans of tomatoes There was nothing to be done but to crumb in enough hardtack to absorb the liquor stir with a haycnEt and bake brown Rice PuddingTo about six pounds of rice in a tengallon boiler add enough walET to cover and let simmer I slowly for two hours then add f01I pound of raisins the dish sles better I bet-ter if raisins are stemmed after boil ling an adHlonal half hour empty into i a flat baiting pan cover and bring to a brown aerve hot or cold It was thp I writers misfortune In one of his early efforts on this dish to put in six gallons I gal-lons of rice T was gratified to note the I increase in our stocl of rice hut being unearned of its capacity to increase I I did not have vessels to hold the overfloW over-floW After all it would nOt have been sa bad had the eruptions all occurred at tile same time but out of dire necessity ne-cessity I had to put the rice which erupted at 1145 a m in the tub with that that bad refused to be ontalned at 1045 a m and thc mixture lacked that uniformity that my later efforts pcmesaed But after all it was but a blesirg in disguise for it led to the i1iiiovery of that delectable dish Rice PattilTo twelve allons of half and threrzfourth bpiled rice ad1 9010100 eggs slir well and make out ill pats 01 Hat rolls rqll in lardtack crumbs and fry in baeoll fat From the foregoing recipes the public pub-lic may judge of tile merits of m3 book md may also jude if the slanderous slan-derous tonsueB have been wagging for I naught 1 ift4 v4 DINNER IN CAMP fCFS that I took the post with con derable misGIvings but it was that C r drill and my election was quickly na1 From the label on some canned braIls that were issued I as traveling rHn I cut out the letters Le Cilef I md pastCt on my campaign hat and I UIr melting me an apron out of the jICclJlt that canie I around the bza in Iwas ready for the fray I Traded Hominy For Cabbage A grocer boy taught me more In one afternoon than all of Algys hooks He traded me ten boxes of rolled oats for and theIr petition aside and let the so dieI enjoy the profits of his wellspent dime A canteen I think lessens dE I ler11on5 Then too it has saved many a cooks life I mean the fund has 1 What a BU2acott Is I A buzacott stove re5emble a jail I door lilaced horizontally l on Iegr I make no comparIsons from actual knowledge 1 refer to the artists conception con-ception of hat a jail door i as painted on scenery etc etc The Out iitconcits of three washloIer5 three eetlron kettles tiliast large lSiklng j |