The FReeper Foxhole - Happy Thanksgiving Everyone - November 24th, 2005

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[snippy_about_it]

MILITARY COOKING 1941



TURKEY, ROAST

70 pounds turkey, undrawn or 50 pounds dressed and drawn
4 pounds onions, minced, browned
2 pounds fat, butter preferred
15 pounds bread crumbs
2 pounds flour

Singe, then clean the turkey well, saving heart, liver, and gizzard, which should be cooked and then minced for use in gravy or dressing. To make the dressing, moisten the bread crumbs with water, mix with onions and giblets, and season with pepper and salt, sage, thyme, or other spices. The bread may be soaked in oyster liquor and oysters added to the dressing. Celery, currants, or raising may be used instead of onions. Lemon juice or nuts may be added. Stuff the turkey well with dressing. Sew up with strong thread and tie wings down to the body. Make a batter with the flour and fat, season with salt and pepper and rub the turkey with it before placing in oven. Roast in a slow own (200-250 F. -- 18 to 20 counts). After the turkey has been in the oven about 20 minutes, add a little hot water and baste every 15 minutes until done. This generally requires about 2 1/2 hours, depending upon the quality of the fowl. Last few minutes of cooking should be at high heat to brown the outside of the turkey. Carve and serve hot with gravy.

From : Manual of Mess Management,
Military Service Publishing Co., 1941.

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Today's Educational Sources and suggestions for further reading:

www.pilgrimhall.org/thot-ww2.htm

[MJY1288]

Thank You, and Happy Thanksgiving to You and Yours

[snippy_about_it]

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Good Thursday Morning Everyone.

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[snippy_about_it]

You're welcome. Love your speed boat pics. As a child, many moons ago, we used to watch the speed boats race in Ohio. Cool.

[MJY1288]

Where at in Ohio... Dayton?

[U S Army EOD]

Happy Turkey day with all the dressing and fixens.

[MeekMom]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

[Neil E. Wright]

Hiya Kida,

Our country has so many things to be thankful for this year.
Our military is SECOND TO NONE!!!!! (Thank you TROOPS!)
We're WINNING in Iraq!!!!
The economy is BOOMING!!!
The democRATS are LOSING!!
FORMER senator DASSHOLE is deeply SADDENED!

Ah, yes! So much to be thankful for ..... :)

Have a GREAT Thanksgiving, kids, and a safe holiday!

±

"The Era of Osama lasted about an hour, from the time the first plane hit the tower to the moment the General Militia of Flight 93 reported for duty."
Toward FREEDOM

[snippy_about_it]

No, Columbus. They used to race them on the Olentangy and Scioto rivers.

[MJY1288]

OK, I raced a 1/4 mile Drag Boat back in the 1990's, an d if my memory serves me correctly, we called the Ohio race the "Punch Bowl"

I haven't raced since 1998, but from 1989 thru 1998 I traveled the country racing at every event I could possibly make. In 1992 I was world champion in my class in the USDBA (United States Drag Boat Asso) and a 4 time High Points Champ in the DVBRC on the east coast from 1990 thru 1994

[Professional Engineer]

Good morning ladies and gents. Flag-o-Gram.

[Professional Engineer]

Say, that'd be a spiffy rig for camping!.

[Iris7]

"Roast in a slow own (200-250 F. -- 18 to 20 counts)."

I remember being told that before I was born and before oven thermometers existed the cook would get the wood burning right, coals correct, and then test the oven temperature by opening the oven door and sticking in their hand while counting up how long they could leave there hand in there. These weren't seconds because people didn't use seconds until accurate clocks were readily available. A "slow" oven was the temperature when you pulled your hand out slow, and a "fast" oven was when you had to pull your hand out fast.

The same technique is used today to check heavy machinery temperatures though we use seconds nowadays. Four seconds is about 115 degrees Fahrenheit. At 140 degrees you can press your finger for about a half second. I mean, you don't burn yourself or anything like that. The sensation changes from "warm" to "hot" and you take your hand off.

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody. Especially to our people on the sharp end.

[Johnny Gage]

Happy
Thanksgiving
Everyone

 

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[E.G.C.]

Happy Thanksgiving from EGC of Southwest Oklahoma.

[Caipirabob]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

I want to say thank you to each of you out there reading FR today!

It's so great to wake up each day and read your thoughts on things happening in the world. The thoughtfulness and intellect of my fellow FReepers has carried me through the past 5 years in dealing with the Leftist infection that infests our great nation. Y'all help reinforce the strength I get from my family to for forth and debate important issues with the lefties I have to deal with every day.

And more and more those debates end with a hushed retreat on their part. Heck, I've gotten so much ammo from FReepers for my Chavez debates alone in the post two months that the folks I discuss this with usually end up not being able to make eye contact by the end of the discussion. You've helped me SHAME the left, and that is no small feat!

Anyway, that's one small example for my gratitude to FReepers. JimRob and JohnRob and their clan have done a great thing for our nation in establishing this forum. I won't even go into the theraputic aspects of FR, suffice to say that it's a virtual home for me.

Yeah, sure I mouth off too much, get my avatar involved in one too many flame wars and stuff. Yet I'm always up for a late evening Troll-B-Q with a few thousand of my fellow FReepers. Yes, FR is a treasure to me, as are all of you.

So here's to wishing all of you a wonderful, family filled, joyous Thanksgiving. All the best to you and yours! Cheers, Salud, Saude...how ever you want to say it!

The Caipira

[Humal]

Happy Thanksgiving to one and all!

[texianyankee]

Good Thursday morning to everyone from Texas.
Happy Thanksgiving to one & all.
Thanks to all our vets & all our active duty military across this globe.

[GailA]

Good morning every one, I pray God's blessing fall on every one here, our Troops, GW and our country.

[alfa6]

Thanksgiving Day greetings to all and one from the night shift,only one more nite to go :-)

Regards

alfa6 ;>}