FEEDING OUR FIGHTERS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 251, 27 November 1914, Page 4 (Supplement)

FEEDING OUR FIGHTERS.

THE OALLOPING EJTCHEK. '

COOKING FOOD ON THE MARCH

Tlondcrfu] may appear a France 'MJiective to associate with this titanic war, but i t is certainly not misapplied to ;ho catering department. Mdiiona 01 men are engaged, apd they must U 2* no, through tho big gnns alon*. but lnrou«h the stomach, and this imporu ant fact has been romemhered by •Wr nation wncenwd exonp; Genuanv H I* the sanio with the Narr.* Jack lorn larder i, M H el| atocked »„ hi* cpaj biinJ:ers and his ammunition ohwt* Ihese million* of me n must he fa with bread andmmet.a t . on d vesetahU and kept supplied with watei. Bv«> nun m beside entitled daily to over ou ounW coffee artd to a.bar. of ~,;, U r

ONE OX TO 400 UFA. «*ter The" ]\£° allowanceXt3, ar L IIW ' on **- Tb * pounds * corn T\t T 1 ».****• -■•,itu K V' lnn m u*' be mr<vi t« th* -^■nTh^^rr^^ Onilv:— U * hnvi<, ° W •llnttod

wz choose. •> ' , . .toz peaa or dried potatoes, A WOXDKRFUL KITCHEN'. IWh "£ th ° doi,y nti ™* * the Broad.—French, lib i>oy. ; German, 1 ■ b tioz; Hernia, lll> boz. Mtwt.-rmicJi, lib.; German, 12ots. tor twz. sauxtge); Belgian, fck«. Vceo*bl«e.— j. ,v rancu, froa tr»«fo o r 3 lie. until, &>«. rice, loe. white beous; .wuiau, doz. dried, or 21b. bos. potatoes; ix-Jguu, *U>. pouakx*. CotfcH),—* ranch, toe. (or l-7»e. tea) tWruau, a littie under loa. \ZUSW.); Belgian, U4 grammes. Sugar.—JVeucji, 1 l-3o Z . (35 grimuicb); G-erumn, just over loz. (3fgrni.); Belgian, loz.

hi his table French figures rcprcae.it amotrata winch can h 0 increased, -while the German figures aio tho maxim* allowed. For a time, of coutno, fh'» uoorw will liv© on the councry through which they are pacing. When that n eaten bare each army will depend ou its own base. Tlien will come tho tttrt of the commissariat with its effect on ihe fortune and duration of th# war, Do-siTthed o« the galloping JitjcJwj," rnfc mohrto c**>&ir inrenteri hf S*r. g«ant Milk. «* tin. Birffa, bw revolutionised milibary cuisine The apparatus at first nesembles the familiar tar boiler of flic stre«'., and coniasU! of a vertical cylinder provided witih a chimney mounted on wheel* and drawn by ore horse. Tho wheels are Liko those of gun carriages, aaid the cooker can go whoreyor a gun can go. It can ttik<n precipitous hills without any risk of spoiling the .good things cooking The cylinder has a fir 0 box like an ordinary copper, and this heats the ratw in the boiler. The meat, vegetable;*, or whatever is lo be cooked are jdacvd in four containers with false perforated bottoms through which the juicc» filter through to the real tioor bolow. The kitchen cooks as it gwi, and fonj for "iOO men can l>e prepared in two and a half hours.

FEEDING THE NAVY. The British Nnvy is just as well hmll<hl. Haro is the ration list for ktvir« r.flnat : lib. bread. \\h. fresh meat. lib. fresh vojrotabjcs. 1-8 pint spirit. •Joz. sugar. V 'Arnj jo ||iq siif o; a'iaijgj 3fniHtM|d Jnz. condensed milk The balnnop is croditml to the mrfw a» vivinßs on the f**ale: —Por't A DEFEATED GENTJML. the week rn hnrbonr, or on tw*

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