The Washington times., 1937-06-25
NOW
A Dainty Dish
For the Scouts
AND BY THE TON
BY HELEN ESSARY


Scout Jamboree, June 80 to July y?
What a question!
Ordering the meals just for ones
own loving family has given even
ardent housekeepers an excuse for
long tricks from home.
But ordering meals by the thou
sands, the tens of thousands. to be
delivered and cooked by the side
of the Potomac River-there is
something to turn a hennaed head
to gray.
For weeks, now, Scout masters
have known the quantity and quail
ity of meat needed for each jam
boree meal. They have had a sharp
eye on vitamins and values.
In bulk they have ordered:
Chicken frierS-22,000 pounds.
Chickens, sting 22,500
pounds.
Assorted cold cuts-42,759
pounds.
Pot roasts- $1,000 pounds.
Beef roasts-25, 443 pounds.
Lamb, legs-28,707 pounds.
Lamb Stew-15, 900 pounds.
Beef ground for hamburgerS-
10000 pounds.
Beef, dried Cknown to the laity
as Clipped beef), 1000 pounds.
Beef Stew-15,0 pounds.
Bacon, sliced, 20 slices to the
pound-357 pounds.
FrankfurterS, to the pound
500 pounds. (No stingy, slim
frankfurters for visiting Scouts)
Ham, cooked and sliced, 10000
pounds.
The meat for the first day OF
the Jamboree will be delivered the
day before. For breakfast will be
needed 827 pounds of bacon. Din
ner will require SPOT pounds of
roasting chicken and SAB pounds
of roast beef. About 5000 pounds
of sliced cold cuts will make a
tasty supper dish.
On the day after such feast
as in your family and mine, food
will be little plain-7,5 500 pounds
of Stewing beef cut in thick one
inch wedges, plus vegetables.
After the next mornings
sightseeing and drilling the Scouts
will devour $4,000 pounds of roast
lamb for dinner. Side dishes
10000 pounds of cold cuts-will be
ready in case the third and fourth
helpings of lamb give out.
The next day is roast beef day
$500 pounds for a single meal.
The butchers will bring for the
following breakfast 1000 pounds
of bacon; for luncheon, 1000
pounds of dried beef, with a few
hundred weight left over for an
other day.
In case you think the Scouts
might go supperless to bed or start
any day without ample raSherS OF
bacon, butchers are supplying for
July 2, $4,000 pounds of roast beef,
5000 pounds of bacon and 10000
pounds of assorted cold cuts.
Beef stel, $4,000 pounds of it,
will refresh the boys at dinner
time on July 3. They will celebrate
the Fourth by eating $4,000 pounds
of roast beef and $500 pounds of
fat hot dogs.
July 5 is roast lamb day. Tues
day, the 9Th, is another big rations
day, 10000 pounds of hamburger,
5000 pounds of bacon and 10000
pounds of baked ham.
The last dinner at the encamp-
ment will offer $4,000 pounds of
fried chicken. :
This summary, of course, refers
only to the meats. The vegetables,
bread and butter and milk Situa-
ton is more than I can cope with
in this column.
The general headquarters kitchen
will be on the Washington Monu-
ment grounds. There will be three
quartermaSter depots along the
Mt. Vernon Highway. One at the
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Virginia side; two at the west
end of the Arlington Experimental
Farm, one on the old cricket
grounds of the Tidal Basin and
20 others at various spots at
Hams Point, Columbia Island and
the West Potomac Golf Course.
The assembling of all this food
would frighten the general of an
army of neutrality-suspicious.. But
Washington merchants, bidding
on the supplies, must agree to de-
liver before IL o'clock of one day
for the next days meals without
assistance or help from any other
source.
In order that the food shall be
good and fresh and not possibly
cause any illness among the
Scouts, the butchers must agree
to have inspectors of the Boy
Scouts, as well as inspectors of
the U. S. Government, at any and
all times during the Jamboree. All
meat must be delivered iced.
I'm glad I'm not the Jamboree
House Mother.