Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-23
4 COOKING LESSON
FROM THE ARMY
BY DIR, FRANK CRANE.
Copyright, 1919

| man In one of the cantonments
writes a letter to his family. 1t is q
circular letter and is passed around
| among all the relatives. One of these
letters I was privileged to see, and as
it contains some mighty practical and
plain ideas on the food question I give
my readers the gist of it. with permis-
sion of the family.
We have all we want to eat, he
/ writes, plain, wholesome food, and 1t
costs US 40 cents day. Think OF IL
Forty cents. And If that is sufficient
to sustain life in the field, for men
| under intensive training, doing a hard
, days work, it is liberal enough for you
at home, where you are not under half
the physical strain and where you can
keep warm by artificial heat
Let me give you some items OF our
menu. 1t is practically the same every
| day, although it varies from time to
time. / have gained weight on it, and
never felt better in my life. Suppose
you try it.
Breakfast-Prunes, aprfcots. dried
apples made into really delicious sauce
| add a little lemon. The prunes are
of good quality, thoroughly washed,
| soaked and stewed with cinnamon bark
and lemon peel.
| Cereal-plenty OF it-oatmeal, corn
meal, hominy grits, cracked wheat.
Bread or toast, with jam. jelly, some
| times butter, sometimes oleomargarine,
and | defy any one to note the differ
ence between that and butter.
Coffee-of this the least said the
better. Gee! how 1 wish 1 had cup of
the real thing right now!
Milk-use more canned milk-espe-
cially for beverages.
| Cut down the sugar at breakfast by
using the juice of stewed fruit to
sweeten the cereal. 1t is good-try it
Noon MESA hot stew-sometimes
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| time-but it is there for nutriment.
All kinds Of vegetables-carrots, onions.
turnips, potatoes, tomatoes and lima
beans. There is a healthy food-dried
you are fond of roast chestnuts roast
few lima beans on a tin-roast them
dry, just like a chestnut-try them. To
resume-bread or hardtack-not with
orally put piece of the army bread on
our plate and cover 1t with the stew.
vegetables and all-cuts down the
butter. 1t can be done; try it and help
mains of the morning cereal or bread
made into pudding. The fruit left
over. prunes, etc. Is mixed with the
cereal and bread and put in baking
top and cooked to a nice brown. If it
is properly prepared there never was
a bread pudding any better than an
army bread pudding. We have tea to
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done-you will feel better for 1t.
Evening msss-Beef hash, roast.
steak or hamburg. Vegetables-pota-
toes. usually roasted. The army is the
only place I have found that roasts
potatoes like mother used to. with the
meat fats, so as to save butter. GEN
orally one other vegetable, as peas.
beets, carrots. cabbage or beans of
some kind. Then we have a dessert of
canned fruit. and occasionally fresh
fruit, pie or cake. And coffee with
canned milk.
The army feeds its soldiers corn
bread often and does without bread
one day a week. Do you?
The army goes without meat one
day a week. Do you?
The army goes without meat ono
meal a day. Do. you?
The army conserves the use Of fresh
milk and butter. Do you?
The army fas cut the use Of sugar
in half by using fruit juices. Have
you?
The army lives sanely and sensibly,
cuts out luxuriss. eats its meal SO as to
get all there u ont of 1t. not all there
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