The Washington herald., 1912-10-13
Nsw and Remarkable Culinary Methods ADOPTED
on Battleships- Providing for Feed
ing $4,000 Sailors
ing 48, 900 Sailors.

with marvellous celerity. The same Re
mark might apply to the coutTivance
which will cut up all the butter into
neat little pats" and which u likewise
operated by an electric motor.
The daily consumption Of corned beef.
ham. and especially bacon-the last al
ways q favorite article Of diet with sail
ore-is necessarily great on such . huge
battleshir a. the Pennsyivania. All OF
this meat win be cut by an electric ma.
chine with . big hy-wheel and . shaft
running under and geared to q small
platform on which the beef or bacon II
placed. The arrangement II such that
the piece Of meat II forced steadily
against q huge revolving knife, which re-
sembles q circular saw without teeth.
and thus 10 automatically reduced To
neat and appetizing slices
To supplement the devices already de-
scribed. there will be what 10 called
utility machine" which has about Q
dozen different attachments, readily ad-
Unstable. Thus. as happens to be re-
quired. II will mash potatoes. mix cakes.
beat eggs. or perform quite . variety OF
other tasks. Needless to say. 1t II run
by electricity.
lee Cream Freesers.
Likewise electric will be the great ice
cream freezer. On Sundays and holidays
there will be ice cream for all hands, and
not less than sixty-fve gallons will suf-
fee 20 60 around. Hence 1t IL not surpris-
ing to learn that the apparatus on board
the Pennsylvania will be operated on .
principle very different from that Of the
ordinary household contrivance. The
cream and other ingredients. poured into
. funnel. will fall through 1t upon the
outside Of q receptacle containing .
| Afrtd ~,rnnliAd fP0nn . rAfH0.
Grating plant. More accurately speaking.
the receptacle in question has q double
jacket, and the mixture passes between
the two jackets. making its way out at
the further end (the process being con-
tinuouS through . spout into molds.
which are put into cold storage until the
Ice cream is wanted.
Think Of the vast number Of dishes to
be washed every day for family num-
bering 1903 persons! The task would be
formidable indeed. were II not for the
help OF a wonderful machine, provided
with skeleton metal baskets Of suitable
shape for holding each kind Of crockery.
glassware. knives and folks. &c. The
contrivance. Of course. Is electrically
driven, the baskets being agitated in hot
water to accomplish the cleansing of
their contents But the hot water is sup
plemented by live steam. 20 that not the
slightest particle of dirt escapes removal.
and the dishes are az such tempera-
ture when they como out that they dry
imme diately. without requiring to be
wiped.
Everything that has to do with culi-
nary operations on board the Pennsyl-
vania will be adapted for labor-saving
as we'll as for cleanliness. Electricity
being the only fuel used. there will be no
ashes or SCOT Furthermore. the galleys
(or kitchens. as We would call them) will
be cool-a very important point on a war
ship, especially when cruising or In port
in tropical latitudes. In ordinary house,
holds electricity cannot be economically
employed: II costs too much But on a
battIeship there Is an immense electric
installation. All Of the machinery on a
modern fighting vessel Is run by the
Juice" which even turns the turrets.
There is electricity literally TO burn.
and the slightly greater load required
for the cooking does not count.
Cookins Arrangements.
incidentally. the cooking arrangements
are very slightly There is a spotlessness
about everything which might well excite
the admiration and envy Of any careful
housewife The electric ranges and bake
ovens are Of a siivery hue. being painted
with aluminium paint. Every bit of ex-
posed metal is highly polished. The gall
ley floors are of white tiles. All the veGe-
tables. soups, and boiled meats are pre-
pared in huge copper kettles. double
jacketed They do not have to be put on
stove. the cooking of their contents
being done by steam that passes in be-
tween the jackets. In the crews galley
Of the Pennsylvania there will be eight
such kettles. each OF them holding from
sixty to eighty gallons.
Such kettles are always kept beauti-
fully FURNISHED: they are attractive OBJ
Jects to the eye. So likewise are the
great coffee urns and tea urns, which
are similarly double-jacketed. steam be-
ing relied upon to do the boiling. There
will be steam tables Of polished copper.
like those in use in the most modern
hotels. with pipes beneath to supply heat
to the huge copper pans containing eat
ahles of different kinds. To get the food
hot to 1.o09 men is a difficulty that could
be solved only by the help of steam
ia ables; for it should be realized that It
takes a long time to prepare a meal for
SO many people. Preparations for break
fast are begun at o'clock in the morn
ing.
All the food supplies on the new bat
tleship Pennsylvania will be kept and
stored in accordance with the most scien-
tffic and up-to-date. ideas The fresh
vegetables will be slowed in great wire
cages on the superstructure deck. in
order that they may have plenty OF
light and air. When frost threatens. the
CAGES will, be covered with tarpaulins. In
freezing weather. OF course. IL would not
do to store such perishable products in
this way. and they will be placed in the
cooling ROOM OF the cold storage plant.
where the temperature Is just above j.
degrees Fahrenheit.
The ship will have two big flour rooms.
In which nothing but -four will be stored.
II will also have separate rooms for cof-
fee. for tea. for timed vegetables, for
timed meats, and 30 forth. Such an ar
rangement makes the supplies easier to
geat at when they are wanted. II should
not be supposed, however. that war
vessel carries enough food to last for an
indefinite period. No fiee: nowadays goes
out without two supply ships, which
might be described as enormous floating
refrigerator plants. with storage COM
partments not only for meats. but FOR
vegetables, eggs and other things edible.
the temperature for each being different.
These two ships Join the fleet at certain
places previously determined. When one
of them Is empty. 1t goes away TO NIL
up. and the other one arrives to take
its place.
Dessirated Vegetables.
Desiccatcd vegetables have proved
great boon to the navy They are pre-
pared without the use of high tempera-
lures, which would drive of the vola-
tile oils and ethers that have give them
flavor. Taken in the fresh state. they