Military orders stated
in April, 1915, “the scale of rations after leaving Egypt [a stopping-point en
route to Gallipoli] will be:-”
·
1¼ lbs.
Fresh Meat or 1 lb. (nominal) preserved meat.
·
1¼ lbs,
Bread or 1 lb. Biscuit or 1 lb. Flour.
·
4 ozs.
Bacon.
·
3 ozs.
Cheese.
·
2 ozs.
Peas, Beans or dried Potatoes.
·
⅝ ozs.
Tea. ¼ lb. Jam.
·
3 ozs.
Sugar.
·
½ oz.
Salt, 1/20 oz. Mustard, 1/36 oz. Pepper.
·
1/10
gill Limejuice. at discretion of G.O.C. on recommendation of S.M.O
·
½ gill
Rum. at discretion of G.O.C. on recommendation of S.M.O
·
Tobacco
not exceeding 2 ozs per week at discretion of G.O.C. on recommendation of S.M.O
There is no recipe for the day to come from these
rations, so instead I give you another Aussie recipe, for the ubiquitous
pumpkin this time, from nearly a decade earlier. I hope my American friends
particularly enjoy this pie!
Pumpkin
Pie (Australian Recipe)
Ingredients:
Half-pint of pumpkin pulp,- three-quarter pint of milk, two eggs, 2oz. of
sugar, mace, or nutmeg, short crust.
Method:
Take a ripe pumpkin, pare off the skin,
halve it, remove the seeds, and cut it into thick slices. Put it into a lined stewpan or earthenware jar
with a small quantity of water, and stew gently until tender. Pass through a
fine sieve, measure the pulp, add sugar, yolks of eggs, milk, and a little mace
or nutmeg, and lastly the whites of eggs previously whisked to a stiff froth,
Have a pie-dish ready, lined round the edges with paste; put in the
preparation, cover with paste, and bake in a quick oven. Serve either hot or
cold.
The
Daily News (Perth, WA,) December 7, 1907
My Dad used to bring home army ration packs in the eighties for us kids to play with. We thought they were awesome! I wonder what the Anzacs would have thought of the tinned cheese, packs of chocolate and sachets of powdered cordial?
ReplyDeleteI remember my brother bringing some Aussie ration packs home from Vietnam - I still have the little can-opener from one of them! I have no idea how they compare with American - another post, perhaps?
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