South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-10-14

few weeks ago the quartermaster generals depart
ment faithful 20 It's complicated task Of supplying
everything from shoes to TO a rapidly forming
army of over million men. telegraphed appeal TO
So leading hotel proprletors throughout the country
asking chefs and expert cooks 10 teach
the science az Eastronomics the kitchens Of IS
environments.
Now the Drowned old mess sergeants of
regular army cooking schooIs-of which four haze
hourished for years-are willing and anxious TO
sit the feet Of the capable wizards who have fed
Fifth and fremont st. great is the faith
OF the in the manual army cooks. is
sue or 1915 that they pause reHecvey IN their scen
tihcally arranged pantres allOwquite unofficial
y-that maybe few Of those fancy chefs will back
10 their hotels with one or two choice recipes well worth
trying the favored fellow always gets by TIE
plush rope and calls the head waiter by first mar
AS a matter or fact N. Panchard, famous chef OF
the Hotel McAlpn. New York, was loaned" a while
back I'm order TO gain sufficient knowledge Of army
cookery % instruct national guard kitchens
washington barracks, where studied
enlisted men he went back 20 New York with his OBJ
rnendation of NJ Psnchard "a 71iIitar I,,ncbeon.,
which IS a duplicate OF the noon meal which Uncle
Sam dishes up for his boys The price of this meal is
80 cents; and it is the highest compliment which
ENfBAINnED BEEF DAYS OVER.
In fact the day of Civil bareback and Spanish
war embalmed beef is Tong gone" Emergency ra-
tions. Of course the soldier must carry to tide him
over bad situations where the enemy Ire hotter
the bake ovens behind the line. But feeding his
armies in barrack and trench Uncle Sam has become
a domestic scientist who thinks n OF nutritive
values and psychologist who realizes
achs digestive juices will respond unless palate
telegraphs its approval the brain.
Never before in the worlds history have commanders
OF troops realized how absolutely an army moves
its stomach" = would not going 70 say
that a unit in motion organized around the commits
Closer than the artillery 10 the infantry or the
either comes the group Of rolling
kitchens. which their great kettles boiling merriy all
day. muledrawn into action behind the marching
men. Soup is simmering. beef is stewng the classic
beans arc heating the doughty cook wagon bumps
along When the company halts for the efficient
.OOF a. rnqd To ia cd Tn
pearance it's simple the organization OF dining
Gated
I'm the months 10 come. when American rolling
kitchens perched reasonably out Of range on a
Scared field somewhere in France and boys from
nome emptying their plates Of a helping
of "El Rancho they may lift their bullet-proof
helmets TO the printed CONSIDER comforter friend
which has followed them the trenches-the Manual
for Army Cooks issue Of 1915
~ history. the present volume of official
recipes Is about dozen years old II has been col
with uniforms and backed by general orders: bat It's
choicest and hest originated in the instructive ntabe
methods Of Aunt Diana. who concocted her champion
wafaes by "ies' tastin'"
Tn fact large majority OF the good and fine points
iu Uncle Sans daily for his Sammies due to
am old commissary sergeant OF Fort Riley His
Dunno. and ne those born the grid
die who has the same advantage the ordinary
aspirant TO kitchen honors that Kubelik had from
birth over the little girl next door
FIRST-CLASS ARMY COOK
re a Of education i'm the ordinary ac-
ceptance Of the word. but he was frst-class army
cook. ON scraps Of wrapping paper old bills ne kept
Of every recipe he had ever tried These were
edited hv Col Hobrook, then I'm command Fort Ri
ley and published I'm a little book called Methods OF
Handling Army RatOns." which has developed into
the Manual FOR Army Cooks" the ext-book in the
schools for cooks and bakers started 1900 by
Com. Cen Sharpe. now quartermaster general And
perusal of its contents after sampne the results of its
counsel leaves little sympathy with the
years ago 20 the bugler's regular mess call
soupie soupie. soupie.
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