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Show New Army Field Ration Called 10-in-l; It's Canned Dehydrated Corned Beef Hash rye f ' - 1 l v ) 1 M v. L CHICAGO. Part of a large, wooded wood-ed estate north of this city was turned into a typical Italian "battle area" recently when a large group of mothers and wives of soldiers now overseas found out at first hand just what their sons and husbands are eating when supplied with army field and combat rations, and how the food is prepared. The occasion was the introduction on the home front of the newest army ration the 10-in-l by the Chicago Chi-cago depot of the U. S. quartermaster quartermas-ter corps. This ration has been in production for two months, but its announcement has been withheld until un-til overseas reports disclosed its enthusiastic en-thusiastic reception by fighting men in all parts of the world. At this field mess, a rough clearing, clear-ing, flanked by dense woods, was the setting. Army trucks with cartons car-tons of the ration drove in. Field ranges were set up exactly as they are in a front line war theater. The women were equipped with regulation regula-tion army mess kits. At the call, "come and get it," they lined up at the kitchens and received their food in regulation army style. The "entree" at the meal was the army's newest dehydrated food product corned beef hash developed devel-oped after months of research by food scientists of the quartermaster corps and Wilson and Co., Chicago meat packers. The speed with which the dehydrated de-hydrated hash can be prepared a highly important asset when a sol- " "a -Mia MM II II mill rlUlll Capt. Joseph A. Bnrkhart of the Chicago depot of the U. S. quartermaster quarter-master corps explains the advantages advan-tages of the new dehydrated corned beef hash, recently accepted for army overseas rations, to Mrs. Geoffrey Geof-frey S. Gough, whose husband overseas over-seas will soon be eating the new food product. dier's under fire astonished the women at the army meal. Within ten minutes after the addition of hot or cold water, the hash is ready to eat. When there is a good cook around, the women learned, the hash can be fried or baked into loaves for slicing or for sandwiches. Two cans of the dehydrated hash are. included in each Menu No. S of the army 10-in-l field ration. The mothers and wives at the army demonstration meal learned that this ration contains three full meals for ten soldiers, or ten days' food for one soldier. |