The Washington times., 1935-07-27
NOW
Going to Market
For the Scouts
PLENTY BEEF!
Nv HELEN ESSARY


vaguely with the list the COOK
gave you, how would you go.
about feeding $4,000 Boy
Scouts?
twenty-five thousand two
listed, hungry, cheering Boy
Scouts come to be your house
guests from August 1G to 80.
The thought Of feeding four
Boy Scouts once threw me into
q heavy faint. I passed out tenn
porarily. The Boy Scouts stayed
home. The family nerves and
pocketbook were protected.
But the Washington hosts OF
the national organization, soon
to be encamped here, isn't 60
ing to have the filters when
the young army arrives.
Weeks ago it rolled up its
sleeves: Asked the advice Of
Bureau Of Economics Chieftan
West. Sent out offers for bids
to meat packers wholesale de.
partment, naturally, vegetable
men too. I suppose, but I
don't know the details of those
arrangements. It's the next
order for the 1885 Jamboree
Camps at Arlington, Va, that
I've been looking into.
The meat menus TO: the
Jamboree have been worked
out carefully. The amount
needed to supply the Scouts
table makes my typewriter
balk. Here it is:
Three hundred pounds of
dried beef will be creamed for
breakfast the first morning Of
the encampment.
1000 pounds of cold cuts are
ordered for lunch.
For dinner a mere 2,62C
pounds of frying chicken will
supply white and dark meat
Ono backs or necks) for the
Scouts.
The youthful tenters along the
Potomac at dinner time on Au.
gust 10 will eat 1000 pounds Of
roast beef, "boned, rolled, tied
and ready for the pan, rolls to
weigh as nearly 10 pounds as
possible"
This m e al undoubtedly is
planned to give strength after a
march.
There will be 1900 pounds Of
stew beef for dinner on August
20. Stew beef, according to
specifications sent out to pros
pective bidders, els to be boned,
free from fat and cubed approx
mately one inch square. Il wish
they would ask me to dinner
that night. I adore stew
Lamb and ham day comes
next-"14,000 pounds of lamb,
three legs to a mess of 81 per.
sons. Weight before cooking, %
pounds approximate" (but
where's the spinach?; 1000
pounds Of ham, marked choice,
needed for the same day.
More stewing beef - 8,244
pounds this time, because the
Scouts liked the first lot so well,
for August %. On the same
day the commissary needs 1924
pounds of ham, the hams from
six to eight pounds each. Like
wise, 1000 pounds of dried beef.
Probably for the next days
breakfast.
That noble standby for bigger
and better men, the pot roast.
appears on the menu for the fol.
lowing day, 1000 pounds Of pot
roast, to be exact, and 7,400
pounds of roasting chicken will
make the following Sunday din.
ner a success.
And 4,122 pounds of fat frank.
furters (eight to the pound
will arrive for lunch on Mon
day. On the same day 10,305
pounds Of roast beef will be
passed at the dinner table.
On the twenty-eighth, $50
pounds Of ground meat, 4,122
pounds Of bacon, and S,244
pounds Of cold cuts will keep
the boys from getting home
sick.
A puny 1870 pounds Of
fried chicken will make the
farewell dinner on the twenty
ninth. Where the nearby coun-
try hostesses in Virginia, Mary
land and Delaware will find a
little white meat for their
preachers-and their weekend
guests at Sunday noon, is a myS-
terry to me.
How this food will be cooked'
As something I'd rather not
think about. Also the matter
Of refrigeration is an idea I
Shan't let worry me. haven't
the strength for such calcula-
tons
I do notice on the specifica-
ton cards, however, that the
contractor shall deliver meat
iced or otherwise refrigerated
sufficiently to insure it's arrival
at the various points of delivery
in camp in good condition"
Also, "all meats shall be subject
to inspection by the Livestock,
Meat and Wool Division of the
Bureau Of Agricultural Econom-
les"
Each contractor must report
by telephone to the Jamboree
CommiSSary the exact time his
truck leaves for the camp. He
must be willing to have his
plant and preparation forces in