Directions for Cooking by Troops, in Camp and Hospital: Prepared for the Army of Virginia, and published by order of the Surgeon General, with essays on "taking food," and "what food."Nightingale, Florence
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Directions for Cooking by Troops, in Camp and Hospital: Prepared for the Army of Virginia, and published by order of the Surgeon General, with essays on "taking food," and "what food."
Nightingale, Florence
Cooking for military personnel; Cooking for the sick; Quantity cooking
SALT BEEF OR PORK, WITH MASHED BEANS, FOR ONE HUNDRED MEN.
Put in two vessels 37½ lbs. meat each; divide 24 lbs. beans in four
pudding cloths, loosely tied; putting to boil at the same time as your
meat, in sufficient water; let all boil gently for two hours; take out
the meat and beans; put all the meat into one boiler, and remove the
liquor from the other; into which turn out the beans; add to them two
teaspoonfuls of pepper, a pound of fat, and with the wooden spatular
mash the beans, and serve with the meat. Six sliced onions fried and
added improves the dish.
[NOTE.—In cooking all kinds of meat, be careful to preserve the grease,
which can be easily done by putting the liquor in which it is boiled,
by till it cools; then skim off and place in a clean covered vessel. It
is an excellent substitute for butter; is useful for cooking purposes,
and will burn in a common lamp or tin plate with a piece of old cotton
twisted up for a wick.]
Directions for Cooking in Hospital.
No. 1.
MUTTON STEWED AND SOUP FOR ONE HUNDRED MEN.
Put in a convenient sized vessel 16 gallons water, 60 lbs. meat,
12 lbs. plain mixed vegetables, 9 lbs. pearl barley or rice (or 4½
lbs. each), 1½ lbs. salt, 1¼ lbs. flour, 1 oz. pepper. Put all the
ingredients, except the flour, into the pan; set it on the fire, and
when beginning to boil, diminish the heat, and simmer gently for two
hours and a half; take the meat out and keep warm; add to the soup your
flour, which you have mixed with enough water to form a light batter;
stir well together with a large spoon; boil another half hour; skim
off the fat, and serve the meat and soup separate. The soup should be
stirred occasionally while making, to prevent burning or sticking.
No. 2.
BEEF SOUP.
Proceed the same as for mutton, only leave the meat in till serving, as
it takes longer to cook than mutton. The pieces are not to be above 4
or 5 lbs. weight each.
No. 3.
BEEF TEA, SIX PINTS.
Cut three pounds lean beef into pieces the size of walnuts, and break
up the bones (if any); put it into a convenient sized kettle, with ½
lb. mixed vegetables (onions, celery, turnips, carrots, or one or two
of these, if all are not to be obtained), 1 oz. salt, a little pepper,
2 oz. butter, ½ pint of water. Set it on a sharp fire for 15 minutes,
stirring occasionally, till it forms a rather thick gravy at the
bottom, but not brown; then add 7 pints of hot water; simmer gently for
an hour. Skim off all the fat, strain through a sieve and serve.
No. 4.
THICK BEEF TEA.
Dissolve a teaspoonful of arrow-root in a gill of water, and pour it
into the beef tea twenty minutes before passing through the seive, or
add ¼ oz. gelatine to the above quantity of beef tea, when cooking.
Mutton and veal will make good tea, by proceeding the same as above.
No. 5.
ESSENCE OF BEEF.
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