The Unauthorized Soldier's Cookbook

Great ideas to help consume your rations. Make the most of them--after all, you are automatically docked 6 pence a day (out of your 8 pence salary) to pay for food!

Boiled Beef with Bread

3/4 lb. Beef (daily ration, weighed with bone and gristle)
1 1/2 lb. Bread (daily ration)
Water

Place the water in a copper boiler. Place over a a fire, until water boils. Add beef to water. When beef is boiled, remove. Serve with bread.

Enjoy!

Broth with Bread

Broth
Bread

Place Beef Broth in boiler. Heat. Serve with bread.

Enjoy!

Boiled Vegetable Stew with Bread

Vegetables
Bread
Water

Place vegetables and water in boiler. Boil. Serve with Bread.

Enjoy! (Brereton, 36)

Bonus: Saratoga Edition Cookbook

Beef and Shipbiscuit:

Beef
Shipbiscuit

Take Beef and Shipbiscuit out of kit. Serve with muddy water.

Enjoy! (Frey,101)

- Capitan J.A. Brenner, 5th Regiment, Culinary Division (2001)

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