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earl

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Post a Reply To This Topic    Reply With Quotes     Edit Message     View Profile of earl  Posted on: May 28, 2009 - 4:20pm
i think they are referring to corned beef hash as corned beef willie.it was a mixture of meats, potatoes.it came in a can. the meat was a little "stringy"it was rumored that is was horse meat from australia.it was fixed in different ways.you could dum,p it in a fry pan and fry it and saerve it like that.you could patty it and serve it like sausage.you could mix it with eggs.you could make a sandwich out of it.but no matter what you did to it it was still corned beef hash.it had it,s own distinct flavor and smell. just like spam,most doused it with catsup.it was basically a "filler" food.
if you happened tto leave an open can around it would start to smell like you were in a barn. earl

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JEFF AND OTHERS - About my project

Long story, but I am doing a book. I write cookbooks for a living. And I am a history buff. I am also the son of an Army Screaming Eagle, as is my wife and I am a Proud Army Strong Dad as well as uncle to two service men.

Whenever we get together with friends, family, uncles, friends, vets we know or just people I meet when doing cooking demos or book signings I always end up talking to vets about food. They open up about the best and worst food. The strangest meal. the most memorable etc. All eras, all service branches including a few astronauts.

So, I am working on a collection of Military Food Memories, Short stories, they range from one line to several paragraphs. I have emails and letters from a nurse who dinned with Churchill, A man nicknamed beans because of a can of exploding bean soup, some marines who blew up thier own fishing raft with explosives trying to fish in a lagoon after Island warfare. And some that just say avoid the MRE's, Ration Gum and the Five Fingers of Death - Sausage dinner.

My hope is that this growing collection of stories will become a book for everyone to enjoy. But I also hope when it is published that my wife and I can donate to the Scholarship fund at North Georgia Military College and State University, where our son will re-enroll as an ROTC officer cadet after spending the last year at Ft Jackson and Ft Sill. I would like to help there.

BUT, we are also members of the Blue Star Riders which is a service group similar to the Patriot Guard Riders, which we are also members of. The Blue Star Riders support local VA's. In our case the local VA outpatient. We are just now starting to help with buying supplies such as crackers and snacks, shirts, socks, underwear, bottled water etc. What we have done so far here has been all out of pocket and I am hoping to add some more funding to this effort via the book. Donations of old magazines, shirts etc are coming in slow but all of the food items Ally and I just go out and buy.

That's what I am doing. I would love to hear from as many people as possible. Even if this does not work, which I think it will, I will have met some great people and preserved some great memories.

Thanks - Kent

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Did you get any of the "Mutton, Canned, Corned" in the Solomons? You could smell it before the seal on the can was broken. I never knowingly ate any. I doubt that any cook could have slipped it past my nose.

I always felt that we ate fairly well in New Guinea in 1944. We ate all meals on the boat until some time after the Mios Woendi base was established. At some point in time there we were required to eat all meals in the base mess hall. I believe that we has better quality meals on the boat. Thanks cookie.

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I like Hormel corned beef hash Earl, but something tells me a steady diet of it would make me ill. But canned corned mutton??? Ewww QM, just the thought is awful.

Sounds like a good cause Kent, I sent your post to Jack and am awaiting an answer. Sounds like you have some great stories already! Food is an important part of anyones life and I've enjoyed reading the "cuisine" stories the veterans post here. Using the Search feature here will help find them, a few good terms would be "thanksgiving", "spam", "canned", "fruit", "vegetables", "menu", and "christmas". "Cuisine" probably won't net you much though.



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earl

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i did not have any of tthe muttn.if i was able to get it i don,t think i would have seerved to my crew.i have never eaten corned beef hash since the time on the boats but about three weeks ago i got a can of it.i fried it in the fry pan and had it with my fried eggs fort breakfast.i thougt is was good so i got another can. last week i tried it again and could not stomach the taste. thats waso the boat but there were stuck with it.i served on several base force galleys before i was assigned to a boat.on the base we were able to stock up more and keep food longer.we were able to give more of a variety and quality on the base.when assigned to the boat the base galley supply would only give us so much of what THEY wanted us to have.in order not to deplete their own supply.
there was one instance, it was at either rendova or treasury/treasury,i think, that we ran low on sugar.when the men went thru the chow line at the base we only allowed to give each man one spoon of sugar.for instance at breakfast they could have the one spoonfull in their cereal or their coffee.you can imagine how that went over.one guy got so mad at me he threw his mess knife at me.i am still ghere so he luckily for me missed.the grapefruit juice was prevailant as it helped restore the vitamin c we sweated out of our bodies every day.needless to say it was also used to "cut" the alky that was made.it was also used as a substitute for tjhe fruit we were unable to get.
when we got to guadal canal and were billetd there for a short while i went to town ion the coconuts too.ate the meat.it bound me up. one of the old timers told me to drink the milk it would help unbind me.seems like it did
i have a lot of variation recipes for powdered eggs.that was also a staple food on the boats and bases.on the base when we made coffee in the large tubs we threw a little salt in it to settle grounds to the bottom.in service school i saw them toss some egg shells intonthe coffee tubs to "sweeten" the coffee.
twice a week on the base we had baked beans-tuesday and saturday.that is another item you could add things to make it variable.i always liked the extra juice.
refrigeration was a major problem so that is one reason we had so much powdered and dehydrated food.
please excuse the spelling erros as my eyes seem to be getting worse with age. earl


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Frank J Andruss Sr

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Kent

Fabulous idea. You could call it Recipes from the War Front, a collection from all the different cooks. I bet there were some Cooks who really put some items together. I know that I have tried some of the recipes and I must say they were pretty darn good. I like where this is going. Contact me offline if you have the chance mosquitofleet@comcast.net


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Sure Kent, you have my permission to print my experiance!

Growing up with the Sea Scouts, enlisting in the Coast Guard, sailing with the Military Sealift Command and working at an Army base has exposed me to some of the finer military cusines.
I do enjoy a good SOS with hot sauce, still love corned beef hash with sunnyside eggs, and I'm the ony one in my large family that will fry or grill a slice of spam for breakfast.
Followed by a large glass of 'bug juice' also enjoy a 'tube steak sandwich' with a 'fart blanket' (chilie).

Nothing like a cup of joe in the morning thats been brewing since mid rats last night. Not having a sensitive digestion track.....priceless!

Glenn


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G'day i know this is an old topic,but i just found this image in a book i have.This is how the military would like the public to think our boys were eating.The photo was taken by Ronald Keith Monro from the LHQ MILITARY HISTORY SECTION.



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Everyone hated the Mutton Stew... well I was just doing some research in some old Army Training Manual cookbooks and found a few recipes for this classic dish.

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hi kent i never made the mutton stew but i have a few recipes that i could send to you to try.give me a mailing address and i will try and send some to you.m,ight take a little time as my eyes are not too good anymore and the recipes are for 25 persons.you can break them down or add to them. earl you have my e mail address

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