{"id":87746,"date":"2019-06-06T13:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=87746"},"modified":"2019-06-06T17:59:11","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T21:59:11","slug":"thursdays-are-for-cooking-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=87746","title":{"rendered":"Thursdays are for cooking…."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Army recruiting poster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Anyone ever pull KP in the Army?\u00a0 Was it Beetle Bailey that was always pulling KP for some silly thing he did?<\/p>\n

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Baby red potatoes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here’s your standard K-rats contents from World War II. The paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne and 101st Airborne carried K-rations as well as D-rations.\u00a0 Those 24,000 men came stocked with a three-day supply of K-rations and two days of D-rations, which were meant for survival..<\/p>\n

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U.S. ARMY photo<\/p>\n

The K-rations carried over into Korea and thereafter to Vietnam, until C-rats came along. I kept hearing stories about using McIlhenny’s sole product, tabasco sauce, to spice the food up a bit.\u00a0 And the Hershey Company was asked to produce a chocolate bra that could withstand heat up to 120F, and weighed only 4 ounces, was high in food energy value, and tasted just a little better than a boiled potato.\u00a0 You may have gotten something similar if you were in Vietnam and got the tropical Hershey bar.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, per my mother, rationing was going on at home. You couldn’t get butter, according to what she told me, so oleomargarine, which was whipped corn oil back then, was available. When I asked her where the butter went, because the troops at the front certainly weren’t getting it, she said “Nobody knows!” (It went to the UK, Ma.) There was also gasoline rationing, and because the Germans were prowling in the Atlantic, to block and sink ships carrying food supplies to the UK, the Civil Air Patrol enlisted spotters everywhere to look for German aircraft, cars had shades over their headlights to reduce nighttime detection, people put blackout shades in their windows, and – well, things were tough all over, but people dealt with it. Silk stockings were available, but extremely pricey, because silk was going into parachute production. At some point, nylon became the thread for producing women’s stockings and parachute canopies, among other things.<\/p>\n

Everything was recycled, too. Nothing usable was thrown away: glass, newspapers and tires were collected, fats of all kinds were collected. The mountains of trash that are collected today might astonish people who put up with rationing back then.<\/p>\n

I sometimes think we’re a bit spoiled now, despite the after-effects of the September 11th hijackings and destruction that followed.\u00a0 We take far too much for granted.<\/p>\n

So, taking into account that rationing at home was an ongoing part of daily life, I looked for a World War II recipe that can be made with modern baking products, and here it is.<\/p>\n

From https:\/\/www.dday.org\/2015\/10\/13\/world-war-ii-ration-era-recipe-squash-biscuits\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Recipe from \u201cGrandma\u2019s Wartime Kitchen: World War II and the Way We Cooked\u201d by Joanne Lamb Hayes<\/i><\/div>\n
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Ingredients<\/u>:<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a02 cups of unsifted all-purpose flour<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03 tablespoons of light brown sugar<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03 teaspoons of baking powder<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00bc teaspoon of salt<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00bc cup of shortening<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00bd cup of milk<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00bd cup of pureed winter squash puree<\/div>\n
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Instructions<\/u>:<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Preheat oven to 375o<\/sup>F. Lightly grease a baking sheet.<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Combine flour, brown sugar, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Cut in shortening with a pastry blender or 2 knives until the mixture forms coarse crumbles<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Combine milk and squash puree. Add to flour mixture and stir together just until all flour mixture has been moistened. Spoon out onto greased baking sheet to make 12 biscuits.<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until lightly browned.<\/div>\n
\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Cool for 5 minutes on baking sheet. Remove to serving basket and serve warm.<\/div>\n
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I would say “serve warm with butter” but butter was rationed and mostly unavailable. However, I see no reason that these biscuits cannot be served warm with butter.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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