spent some time last night reading the official cookbook of the united states navy, 1945 edition and I gotta say it is extremely on brand that the first recipe in the cookbook is five different ways of making extremely strong coffee
Ayye, ya get a boil goin in the casing of a spent 5-inch round, and ya drop a dollop of crude in an' yer on yer way (I know not all sailors are pirates, shut up nerds)
I have a 1916 Army cookbook on another device. I'll need to see where its coffee recipes are and how many there are.
A rollicking read. I really enjoyed Page 68.
And we wonder why all our grandfathers had ulcers and drank a full mug of espresso at 3 pm
First thing the Union army did when the civil war began was cut off the Confederate coffee supply
My Dad served on a sub tender during the Korean War, and people who came to visit would literally gasp when they drank his coffee.
In the Royal Navy it would be Kai, chocolate drink with globules of fat popular in the Arctic
I might just raid this to work up a meal plan for a week. Bet it would be easy on the budget
My dad was in the Navy in the last 2 years of WWII. Bet he drank a lot of this coffee. I should peruse this document and see what ideas he brought home with him. (He was an excellent cook, feeding 8 kids on a postal carrier salary. He wasn't a cook in the Navy, but he paid attention, I'm sure.)