| Show hotels copy army meals A few weeks ago the quartermaster generals gene r all 01 department faithful to its complicated task of supplying everything from shoes to sugar to A a rapidly forming army of more than one million men telegraphed an appeal to 58 leading hotel proprietors throughout the country asking the loan iona ot of chefs and expert cooks to teach the science of to the kitchens of our 10 new cantonments canton ments now tile the browned in the oven old mess sergeants of our regular army cooking schools of which four have flourished for many years are a re willing and anxious to sit at the feet of the capa ble wizards who have fed fifth avenue and tremont street but so great Is the faith of the mess sergeant in the manual for army cooks issue of 1010 that they pause reflectively in their scientifically arranged pantries and allow quite unofficially that maybe a few of those fancy chefs will go back to their hotels with one or two choice recipes well worth trying on the favored fellow who always gets by the plush rope and calls the head waiter by his first name As a matter of fact M famous chef of the hotel mcalpin new york was lent a while back in order to gain sufficient knowledge of army cookery to instruct national guard kitchens in various new york armories mortes ar spent two days at washington barracks where he studied the cuisine for enlisted men he went back to new york his observations together with a copy of the months menu the day of civil war hardtack and spanish war embalmer embalmed ed beef Is long gone Enfer emergency gency rations of course the soldier must carry to tide him over bad situations where the enemy fire Is hotter than the bake ovens behind the line but for feeding his bis armies in barrack and trench uncle sam has become a domestic scientist who thinks in terms of nutritive values and a psychologist who tt ho realizes that the sto stomachs maths digestive juices will not respond unless the palate telegraphs its approval to the brain in the months to come when our american rolling kitchens are perched reasonably out of somewhere in franceane france and scarred field range ran geon on a our boys from home are emptying their plates of a generous helping of el rancho stew they may lift their bulletproof bullet proof helmets to t 0 the printed consoler comforter and friend which lins has followed them to the trenches the manual for army cooks issue of 1910 1916 As a matter of history the present volume of official recipes Is about a dozen years old it has bai been collected from many sources by many wise men adorned with uniforms unIt and backed by gen oral cral orders but its choicest chol cist and best originated I 1 in the instinctive inimitable methods of aunt concocted her champion waffles by jog lp in fifa a large majority of th the 1 e good and fine points in uncle sama dally menu for his la Is due to an old commissary sergeant ser genni of fort riley niley his tiame was as dunne and lie was one 0 na of those born to 0 o tile the griddle who lins the same advantage over the ordnary ordinary aspirant to kitchen honors tant kubelck had from froin birth over the I 1 alf ile le girl next door ile he was not a man inan of edn education cllon in tile the or ricce of the th c word but he 14 was a farst class army cook on scraps of wrapping paper or old bills he ha kept a copy of every recipe he be had aver ever tried these were edited by colonel hol hoi brook then in command at fort riley alley and pub in a little book called methods of handling army rations which was developed into the manual for army cooks the textbook in the army schools for cooks and bakers started in 1000 by general sharpe now quartermaster general there Is a legend to the effect that there a are re several amusing musical diatribes against th the army food but questioning of of officers ficeri arid and men at the washington B barracks school does not reveal them one sergeant bue one of the three noncoms non coms in line for their commissions said that when the food was bad the men got the growl and sing at all add and when it was good they felt fine and sang the prettiest songs they knew it Is rather heartening to think that the men can have the same food in the field as they doln barracks this Is a accomplished by the bakeries which ar are e portable easily taken down awn and set up and by the very remarkable rolling kitchens which cook a meal as the army marchesi marches having lunch or supper ready when the order comes to pitch camp all of these kitchens have stoves for burning oil and also arrangements for the use of coal or wood one model of which the government has ordered a great many has two double boilers where oatmeal for instance in may ay be cooked as the big stove on wheels trails ou on supply wagon br or truck also there are direct heat hollers where coffee may be made or one of the many delicious stews the familiar irish the savory el rancho bancho containing everything eatable on a ranch or the veryl very del delectable e american stew invented on the mexican border and the first f favorite a vori teat cammies Sam mies table there Js Is also an oven where a roast may be i brought 1 to n turn an and d as a surprise to you abig a big smooth plato plate where flapjacks flap jacks come to life one kitchen will ivill feed men a wa war strength streng th company and it will need three men to operate it trailing each kitchen Is a fireless fl relesa cooker with four large compari compartments menis these are very convenient I 1 e nt in that the tin receptacles fit either the stove or the fir fireless eliss department and can be transferred without the bother bothe of emptying of food f from rom one ves vessel to another there ar are sow now four regular schools for army cooks cook s at fort fori stul houston ter texa fort attley kan monterey cal and washington barracks the can cantonment cantonments canton toRment ments s increased these schools it taipi about four months of rigorous instruction st to make a alist class army cook but under the fil intensive in method the t C cooks will be educated in half tills this time there are arc many very delicious and exceedingly efficient recipes in ili the manual for army cooks and uncle saw gives his boys nit all gilr three ed of their excellent L meals for an over average of jo centa a day if the econ economy orny of do 40 cents a kitchen could bo be brought into nil all american homec inq w e would hear little of food conservation for tile the of every edible molecule Is nothing short of manel ous as Is 19 the system of for every ingredient that comes out of tile storeroom wal lne tace 6 invin in Lou tsUe |
