ARMY COOKING MANUAL – Australian Military Forces – Queensland Lines of Communication Area

1944

Containing Recipes and General Hints on Preparation of Army Rations – For use of Army Caterers and Cooks

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INDEX:

 INTRODUCTION

RATION SCALE – FEMALE PERSONNEL

RATION SCALE – MALE PERSONNEL

ISSUE OF FRESH FRUITS IN LIEU OF VEGETABLES FRESH

SPECIMEN MENU

1.     Sanitary Rules for Cookhouses

2.     Don’ts for Cooks etc

3.     Duties of Warrant Officer Caterer

4.     Duties of Sergeant or Senior Cook

5.     Instructions for Cooks

PORRIDGES

6.     Biscuit Porridge

7.     Rolled Oats

8.     Oats and Biscuit Porridge

9.     Wheatmeal Porridge

BACON DISHES

10.   Bacon and Potato Rolls

11.   Egg, Bacon and Cheese Pie

12.   Mutton and Bacon Hot Pot

CHEESE DISHES

13.   Cheese Fritters

14.   Cheese Savouries

15.   Cheese Patties

16.   Cheese and Bacon Pie

17.   Cream of Vegetable and Cheese Pie

18.   General Uses

19.   Macaroni Cheese

20.   Welsh Rarebit

MEAT DISHES

21.   American Beef Stew

22.   Beef and Barley Croquettes

23.   Beefsteak en Casserole

24.   Beef Olives

25.   Beef Stew

26.   Bread and Butter Sausage

27.   Brown Stew and Savoury Balls

28.   Carrington Stew

29.   Cornish Pasties

30.   Curry

31.   Minced Beefsteak

32.   Mince Rolls

33.   Queensland Hot Pot

34.   Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding

35.   Steak Pie

36.   Steak and Kidney Pudding

37.   Savoury Beef Croquettes

38.   Savoury Beef Rolls

39.   Braised Steak or Mutton

40.   Savoury Steak

41.   Forcemeat

42.   Steamed Hash

43.   Steak and Tomato Pie

44.   Spanish Pie

45.   Toad in Hole

46.   Tripe and Onions

47.   Tripe Rissoles

48.   Vienna Steak

49.   Yankee Pot Roast Beef

50.   Roast Chicken

MUTTON DISHES

51.   Chops in Tomato Sauce

52.   Cutlets

53.   Devonshire Pie

54.   Fricasso Mutton

55.   Haricot Mutton

56.   Irish Stew

57.   Sea Pie

58.   Supreme of Mutton Crecy

PRESERVED MEAT DISHES

59.   American Dry Hash

60.   Baked Meat Loaf

61.   Galantine of Preserved Meat

62.   Preserved Meat Curry

63.   Preserved Meat Fritters

64.   Preserved Meat Irish Stew

65.   Preserved Meat Pie

66.   Preserved Meat Rissoles

67.   Supper Pie

MEAT AND VEGETABLE DISHES

68.   M & V Pie (No.1)

69.   M & V Croquettes (with Potatoes)

70.   M & V Curry & Rice

71.   M & V Pasties

72.   M & V Sausage Rolls

73.   M & V Pie (No.2)

74.   M & V Savoury Pie

75.   M & V Dydon

76.   M & V Sea Pie

77.   M & V Loaf

78.   M & V Croquettes (with Rice)

79.   M & V Rissoles

80.   M & V Gravy

81.   M & V Roman Pie

82.   M & V Potato, Bean or Peas Pie

83.   M & V Toad in Hole

84.   M & V Hot Pot

B. B. PEAS DISHES

85.  General Instructions

86.  Savoury Omelette

87.  Savoury Pie

88.  Hot Pot

89.  Bacon and Pea Rissoles

90.  Blue Pea Soup

91.  Beef and Pea Casserole

92.  Peas Pudding

RICE DISHES

93.  Baked Rice Custard (Egg)

94.  Baked Rice Custard (Custard Powder)

95.  Cream of Rice

96.  How to Boil Rice

97.  Rice and Pea Croquettes

VEGETABLE DISHES

98.  Baked Potatoes

99.  Bubble and Squeak

100.                                Cauliflower au Gratin

101.                                Cabbage and Greens

102.                                Hashed Brown Potatoes

103.                                Mashed Beetroot

104.                                Meat and Peas Pudding

105.                                Peas, Boiled

106.                                Potato Croquettes

107.                                Saratoga Chips

108.                                Vegetable Marrow

109.                                Vegetable Curry and Rice

110.                                Vegetable Pie (No.1)

111a.              Vegetable Pie (No. 2)

111b.              Onion and Tomato Pie

FISH DISHES

112.                                Fish Cakes

113.                                Fried Fish

114.                                Salmon Kedgeree

115.                                Salmon Pie

116.                                Salmon Rissoles

EGGS FRESH

117.                                Baked Eggs

118.                                Poached Eggs

119.                                Scrambled Eggs

EGG POWDER

120.                                General Remarks

121.                                Baked Rice Custard

122.                                Bread and Butter Custard

123.                                Custard Sauce

124.                                Fritter Batter

125.                                General Uses

126.                                Scrambled Eggs (No.1)

127.                                Rock Cakes

128.                                Scones

129.                                Scrambled Egg and Bacon

130.                                Scrambled Egg and Cheese

131.                                Savoury Scrambled Eggs

132.                                Curried Scrambled Eggs

133.                                Egg and Bacon Pie

134.                                Cheese Flan

135.                                German Toast

136.                                Fritters

137.                                German Grated Cakes

138.                                Baked Custard

139.                                Custard Sauce

140.                                Buck Rarebit

141.                                Cheese Rice and Egg Savoury

142.                                Savoury Croquettes

143.                                Savoury Rissoles

144.                                Scrambled Eggs (No.2)

145.                                French Omelette

146.                                Spanish Omelette

147.                                Pumpkin or Carrot Savoury

148.                                Yorkshire Pudding

149.                                Toad in Hole

150.                                Cheese Tart

151.                                Steamed Pudding

PASTRIES

152.                                Flaky Pastry

153.                                Puff Pastry

154.                                Pastry without Baking Powder

155.                                Scones

156.                                Short Crust

157.                                Sweet pastry

PUDDINGS, BAKED

158.                                Apricot Pie

159.                                Apple Charlotte

160.                                Bread and Butter Custard (Egg)

161.                                Bread and Butter Custard (Custard Powder)

162.                                Baked Fruit Roll

163.                                Baked Custard

164.                                Baked Jam Roll

165.                                Baked Apple Dumplings

166.                                Baked Biscuit Pudding and Sweet Roux

167.                                Bakewell Pudding

168.                                Fruit Slice

169.                                Madeira Apple Sponge

170.                                Madeira Cake Mixture

171.                                Syrup Roll

BOILED OR STEAMED

172.                                Apple and Currant Roly Poly

173.                                Biscuit Suet Pudding

174.                                Fruit and Biscuit Pudding

175.                                Boiled Egg Custard

176.                                Boiled Custard (Custard Powder)

177.                                Stewed Dried Fruits

178.                                Isle of Wight Pudding

179.                                Boiled or Steamed Jam Roll

180.                                Steamed Marguerite

181.                                Orange Pudding

182.                                Patriotic Pudding

183.                                Plum Pudding (No.1)

184.                                Plum Pudding (No.2)

185.                                Raisin Pudding

186.                                Steamed Pudding (Foundation Mixture)

187.                                Suet Dough

188.                                Steamed Sultana Pudding

SAUCES, SOUPS, ETC

189.                                Butter Roux – White Sauce

190.                                Custard Sauce

191.                                Jam or Syrup Sauce

192.                                Sauces (Various)

193.                                Portagaise Sauce

194.                                Gravy

195.                                Clear Soups or Consommes (Various)

196.                                Brown Soup

197.                                Jardinere Soup

198.                                Stockpot for Soups Tec

SALAD AND SALAD DRESSINGS

199.                                Mock Mayonnaise

200.                                Potato Salad

201.                                Savoury Seasoning

202.                                Salad Dressing (No.1)

203.                                Salad Dressing (No.2)

MISCELLANEOUS SWEETS ETC.

204.                                Blanc Mange

205.                                Canadian Fritters

206.                                Doughnuts

207.                                Drop Scones or Pikelets

208.                                Fruit Fritters

209.                                Pancakes

210.                                Yorkshire Fritters

211.                                Batter

212.                                Apple Shortcake

213.                                Bakewell Tart

214.                                Bun Scrap

215.                                Yeast Buns

216.                                Plain Biscuits

217.                                Rolled Oat Biscuits

218.                                Custard Tart

CAKES

219.                                Chermside Cake

220.                                Cheap Block Cake

221.                                Fruit Short Cake

222.                                Rich Cake

223.                                Nut Loaf

224.                                Queen Cakes

225.                                Medium or Sultana Cake

226.                                Swiss Roll

227.                                15 Minute Sponge

SUNDRIES

228.                                Baking Powder

229.                                Hints on Cake Baking

230.                                Brine Tub

231.                                Simple Brine for Meat

DEHYDRATED FOOD

232.                                General Notes and Tables

233.                                Curry and Rice

234.                                Potato Pie

235.                                Savoury Mutton and Beans

236.                                Mutton Pasties

237.                                Mutton and Macaroni

238.                                Rissoles (Mutton)

239.                                Beef Stew

240.                                P.M. Hash

241.                                French Toast

242.                                Buttered Carrots

243.                                Mashed Potatoes

244.                                Mashed Brown or Fried Potatoes

245.                                Mashed Potatoes (Julienne Style)

246.                                Potatoes au Gratin

247.                                Cream of Potato Soup

248.                                Onion Sauce and Smothered Onions

249.                                Onion Soup

USE OF WHOLE WHEAT GRAIN

250.                                General Remarks

251.                                Savoury Wheat Cakes (No.1)

252.                                Savoury Wheat Cakes (No.2)

253.                                Plain Wheat Cakes

254.                                Wheat Crisps

255.                                Wheaten Porridge

256.                                Braised Whole Wheat

257.                                Boiled Wheat (Remarks)

258.                                Cream of Corn

259.                                Wheat Roughs

260.                                Wheat Croquettes

261.                                Savoury Wheat

262.                                Wheat Cakes

263.                                Germinated Wheat Porridge

264.                                Germinated Wheat Sauce

265.                                Germinated Wheat, Cheese and Rice Rolls

266.                                Germinated Wheat and B.B. Peas Croquettes

267.                                Germinated Wheat and Meat Puffs

268.                                Gristed Wheat Porridge

269.                                Gristed Wheat Bread

270.                                Gristed Wheat Biscuits (No.1)

271.                                Gristed Wheat Biscuits (No.2)

272.                                Gristed Wheat Scotch Biscuits

273.                                Gristed Wheat Rock Cakes

274.                                Rolled Oatmeal Meal Biscuits

275.                                Gristed Wheat Bread

276.                                Wheat Meal Biscuits

GENERAL NOTES

277.                                Tropical Spread (Reconstituting)

278.                                Bread Making

279.                                Bread and Biscuit Crumbs (General)

280.                                Saving Fats and Clarifying Dripping

281.                                General Hints on Cooking

282.                                Notes on Brewing Tea

283.                                How to Make Coffee

284.                                Water Icing

285.                                How to Cook Mutton Joints

286.                                How to cook Beef Joints

287.                                Time Table for Cooking Meats

288.                                Testing Fat for Frying

289.                                Weights and Measures, Army Pannikin

290.                                Weights and Measures (General)

291.                                Army Cooking Utensils Capacity

ADDENDUM

292.                                Oatmeal Mince

293.                                Oatmeal Cheese Cakes

294.                                Oatmeal Potato Cakes

295.                                Baked Cheese and Potato Pasties

296.                                Mixed Vegetable Croquettes

297.                                Baked Stuffed Potatoes

298.                                Mixed Vegetable Flan

299.                                Potato and Carrot Flan

300.                                Savoury Rice and Grated Cheese on Toast

301.                                Cheese Straws

302.                                Eccles Cakes

303.                                Lemon Curd Tart

304.                                Manchester Tart

305.                                Dutch Apple Flan

306.                                Fish Pasties

307.                                Lemon Barley Water

 

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