Baking bread in the field kitchens
- Title
- Baking bread in the field kitchens
- LC Subject
- Armed Forces Soldiers
- Description
- Those strenuous outdoor activities both in play and work develop voracious appetites, to appease which the cooks have to earn their money. The typical field kitchens are shown here as the loaves of bread are being put in. The army rations are plain and substantial such as the men need. A fair sample meal consists of potatoes, cabbage, boiled ham, bread and butter, lemonade, tapioca pudding, or cake. Everything is well cooked and clean. No appetizer is needed. The service is the same as in a “serve yourself” restaurant. The mess sergeant has an allowance for food and can buy from the commissary or in the open market. Whatever he saves can be spent on additional delicacies such as ice cream and cake. It has to be spent for the mess. So the frills to a certain extent depend on the skill and economy of the mess sergeant. Our soldiers are the best fed soldiers in the world.
- Work Type
- lantern slides
- Date
- 1900/1940
- Identifier
- P217:01:026
- Rights
- In Copyright
- Local Collection Name
- Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides, 1900-1940 (P 217)
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Set
- OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
- Primary Set
- OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
- Is Part Of
- Set 1 - Making the American Army
- Institution
- Oregon State University
