El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-12-23

come out in great sheets Of six 1oaves
each, all baked to a turn While look
ing at them I talked with the sergeant
tp charge about the cost Of the bread
and was told that it was just about
equal TO the flour required TO make
it. Said the man:
I'VE are required to run this bakery
at over 80 percent profit, and, to tell
the truth we run 1t at about 40 per-
cent We find we can DO that, and
sell loaf of bread at Just the cost OF
the pound Of flour that is surprised TO
go into the making Of that loaf. This
seems strange to yOus but you must re-
member that there is a great deal OF
water in bread. Now, the water weighs,
and this weight is taken into account
when the pound loaf OF bread is sold
The man who knows anything about
baking need not lie awake at night
worrying about the profits OF his baker.
They are very large"
This Bread Keeps Fresh Two Weeks.
Another bread made here is such that
1T viii keep for days and still remain
fresh and good. This is after French
method. the bread being made in long
round loaves, one of which stood upon
END would reach TO the height Of ones
waist. The loaf is half slit before bak-
ing, ana IN this way am additional
amount Of crust is formed Such bread
is rood when the army is marching so
rapidly that bread cannot be supplied
palatable for 10 days after making, and
it is intended to be used when the
troops cannot be supplied with soft
bread and to Obviate the necessity Of
using hard bread at such times
The Emergency Ration.
And Just here want 10 tell you
about the emergency ration This is a
new food by means of which the SOL
der need never go hungry. 1t has been
invented by the cOmmissary general in
connection with other officers Of the
army, and it consists of little pack
age not bigger than deck of playing
cards, or, when incased in tin not
larger than a half pint flask of whisky.
1T can be easily carried in ones breast
pocket. This little package weighs only
eight ounces. but ii contains three full
meals, and its nature is such that a
man could live upon it for a long time
II he had to- 1t is made of the cOmpo-
nent parts of milk and eggs so treated
and mixed with chocolate that they
look exactly like the chocolate cakes
you buy in the candy stores. Each ra-
ton is in the form Of three cakes Of
equal size. Each cake is wrapped in
tin foil, and all three are incloSed in
an hermetically sealed round cOrnered
tin box of the size L have described.
have talked with the army officers
about these rationS. and they tell me
they are satisfying. Maj. Gen. Wood
has used them when out camping. and
many of the other officers carry them
other food at such times Gen. Fred
Grant on his last ride of 80 miles-of
30 miles a day for three days-took
three Of these emergency ratiOns with
day. He found, however, that one ra-
ton, or eight ounces of this concen-
trated food was sufficient for the
whole three days. and he was not hum
CRY at the close.
I am nibbiing at one of these rations
as I write. II tastes Just like chocolate
and ] am told that it can be made by
any chocolate factory. We have such
and Gen. Sharpe tells me that an order
for them might be placed at any time
in 80 OF our chief cities and that each
factory would turn out 49, 900 to 20,
600 a day. In this way we could have
100000 such ratiOns almost upon call
These ratiOns keep a long time The
one 1 am nibbling at is three years Old
and not stale.
our Cooks in the Field.
At the cooking and baking schools
the students are taught how to do all
to speak Of. They are taught to make
bake ovens, which consist Of little more
than hole in the ground or Of trench
es covered with clay One of these rude
makeshifts is a kind of barrel oven.
flour barrel or any other old round
thing is half sunken in the earth and
clay put over it in such a way that
when the fire is started the barrel
burns out and the clay is formed into
an oven. They also have semi-cylinders
of iron which are used sometimes This
was the form of oven. that was en-
plOyed largely during the Spanish
American war. Tt is, as Gen. Sharpe
says. a man-killer, and is only put up
in cases Of emergency.
The army cooks are taught to do
their work under all conditions. al
though the food equipment is now such
that our army will have the best OF
meals while on the march and in camp.
These win be prepared upon what are
Known as iron field ranges. They are
o. different sizes one Of which is so