FOOD Navy cookbooks from early 1900's - Free

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Old Gray Mare

TB Fanatic
Just in case anyone wants to know how 100 hungry seamen were fed with off the shelf stored foods. DH showed me the links. He knows and loves me!

General mess manual and cookbook for use on board vessels of the United States Navy - 1904
http://books.google.com/books?id=Sk...&resnum=6&ved=0CFcQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q&f=false

U.S. Navy cookbook -1920
http://books.google.com/books?id=WJ...ce=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

The bean soup sounds good. I wonder if it is the same recipe is used in the Congressional Cafeteria?
 
bw

bw

Fringe Ranger
Fascinating. Compare the 1904 book to Melville's White Jacket which was about life on a man-o-war about 1835 IIRC. In 1835 messmen took uncooked food and were responsible for cooking it for their mess. In 1904 the galley cooked it and gave it to the messmen who served it. Now, of course, the galley cooks and serves. Slow evolution of live aboard Navy ships.
 
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night driver

ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
I'll have to check with my neice to see if she is interested. She's making something of a name for herself as a cook on square riggers and Tall Ships. Not sure where she is right now, I just know that if she ISN'T working it's because she doesn't want to right now. She is in moderately high demand....
 
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sardog

Contributing Member
A jarhead can make no better friends than a Navy cook or a Navy corpsman.

Thank you for the link.
 
bbbuddy

bbbuddy

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Yes, I just spent about an hour following links, trying to find out if they were free on google (the links to amazon were for buying them) and I never found a link for either downloading them or reading them on the internet. Maybe I'm blind or dumb.
 
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Bolt

FJB
bbbuddy said:
Yes, I just spent about an hour following links, trying to find out if they were free on google (the links to amazon were for buying them) and I never found a link for either downloading them or reading them on the internet. Maybe I'm blind or dumb.
Click to expand...

The links take you to google books. You can either scroll and read/print or download to eBooks (if you have a google account), all free.
 
bbbuddy

bbbuddy

DEPLORABLE ME
Maybe it's my browser. I couldn't find a link to either read or to download, and yes, I was signed in to my google account...
will try again later with a different browser.
 
bbbuddy

bbbuddy

DEPLORABLE ME
Nope. Even in Internet Explorer, when I go to my ebooks (google), I can't find a link to actually read it. It's in the "to read" list, and mouseover doesn't give me an option to read or download.

In the "my google ebooks list where there are 3 books google put in there, 2 of the 3 will mouseover for links to read or download, so i know the mouseover on my computer and browser are working correctly....

guess I'll just have to chalk this up to my incompetence.


ah, well after several minutes I see that IE did indeed finally open one of the books for reading. Must be slow internet response times today for me.
 
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teefleur

teefleur

Veteran Member
A cookbook opens in each POSTED link, the first one with a red "cover", the second with a green "cover." At the top right hand side of both documents, there is a live link to DOWNLOAD.
 
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