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The e-zine about Elftowners, by Elftowners, for Elftowners.
Old family Recipes – From Grandpa's 30 Years in the US Navy
By [hanhepi]
As many of you may know, my Dad just recently passed away. Hidden in his basement was a lot of my Grandpa's Navy stuff. My Grandpa started off as a Baker for the Navy, then moved on to become a full fledged cook. In one ancient little military ledger book, tucked away on a basement shelf, was a treasure trove of recipes from when the food in the Navy was yummy, and just home cooking, if your home had more than 100 people in it. Some of his recipes feed 100, some 1000, so, follow recipes at your own risk. Recipes typed just as they appear in the book, no spellings were corrected, and amounts are correct already. I
think that the numbers on the left are the steps. In between the * is stuff I added.
Devel Food Cake (good mix)
If pwd eggs is used put three # pwd eggs with pwd milk + water to break up eggs
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# - pounds. I guess you can convert that to kilos properly and have it still work
oz - ounces. I have no idea what the metric equivalent would be.
pwd - powdered. It was the US military, in the mid 1940s. 90 fresh eggs could have been hard to come by on board a ship in the Pacific Theater, and I don't want to think about what fresh milk would have done about the 3rd month on that ship.
Devel – Devil. Grandpa was writing all this with a 3rd grade education. Guessing the thought process was “Well, it rhymes with 'level', must be d-e-v-e-l.”
Coca – Cocoa powder. I'm 99.9% sure that they were not adding 5 lbs of the plant Cocaine comes from to that cake. The sugar/chocolate buzz would have been just about enough to make the Commanding Officer crazy as it is, I can't imagine what 100+ people that high on coke on a tiny little ship would have been like.
And have no doubts about it, even an Aircraft Carrier would have felt like a tiny little ship if that many people were super high on coke: “YouSeenEnsignBaker?” “YeahSmith,He'sClimbingTheBulkHeadOnTheThirdDeck.”
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