Topic: Army Rations
For pudding Tommy Atkins boils a few biscuits to a pulp, strains off the water, and serves with jam.
Trench Soup (1915)
The Age, Melbourne, Australia, 9 June 1915
The British soldier has a knack of making himself at home wherever he is. During the weary months he has spent in the trenches in France he has endeavoured, among other things, to improve on the regimental rations, and vary the monotony of his diet. He has compounded a recipe for "trench soup," which is declared by those who have tried it to be very appetising.
The rations for one man per day are:—
- One tin of bully beef,
- a few biscuits (or bread),
- a rasher of bacon,
- tea and sugar to make two quarts,
- two ounces of jam,
- and occasionally, a packet of pea soup powder or an OXO cube.
The recipe for the soup is:—
- One tin of corned beef (chopped up),
- one packet of pea soup powder,
- one OXO cube,
- four tablets of Brand's essence of beef,
- two biscuits (broken up),
- a few potatoes.
For pudding Tommy Atkins boils a few biscuits to a pulp, strains off the water, and serves with jam.
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Updated: Wednesday, 16 November 2016 12:33 AM EST
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