Topic: AIF - Lighthorse
Australian Light Horse
Roles within the Regiment
Recipes for Field Cooking - Preserved Meat
The following entries dealing with the roles and duties within the hierarchy of a light horse regiment are extracted from a very informative handbook called The Bushman’s Military Guide, 1898. While written in 1898, the information contained in the entries held true for the next twenty years with only minor modifications with the principles remaining as current then as now.
Recipes for Field Cooking - Preserved Meat
(Ingredients for 22 Men.)
Meat Pie
16½ lb. meat, 5 lb. flour, 1½ lb. suet, 1 lb. onions, 2 oz. salt, ½ oz. pepper.
Make the paste; cut up and stew the onions with jelly from the meat added; cut the meat into dice and place it in a baking dish; add the cooked onions; season with pepper and salt; cover with a light crust, and bake in a quick oven for twenty minutes.
Stew
16½ lb. meat, 2 lb. of carrots or other vegetables, 1 lb. onions, 2 oz. salt, ½ oz. pepper.
Cut up the vegetables and onions, which place in the boiler with sufficient water to cover them; add some jelly from the meat; well season with pepper and salt, and stew gently, keeping the lid of the boiler closely shut until the vegetables are tender, then add-the meat; let the whole simmer for ten minutes, and serve.
Curried Stew
16½ lb. meat, 2 lb. of carrots or other vegetables, 1 lb. onions, 2 oz. salt, ½ oz. pepper, 1 oz. of curry powder and 1 lb. of flour added.
Cut up the vegetables and onions, which place in the boiler with sufficient water to cover them; add some jelly from the meat; well season with pepper and salt, and stew gently, keeping the lid of the boiler closely shut until the vegetables are tender, then add-the meat; let the whole simmer for ten minutes; mix the curry and flour with cold water into a smooth batter, and add it to the stewed vegetables with the meat; let the whole simmer for ten minutes, and serve.
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