Description: We have a Factory Copy of an English Translation by John Baum of an original 1942 WW2 German Africa Corps Field Cookbook manual that is dated 30.6.1942. This manual is titled: Draft Field Cookbook for Warm Countries, for permanent use by the field cook as well as for the instruction of the commander, unit leader, and medical officer. From June 30, 1942 . This manual is 5 1/2" by 8 1/2", 64 pages long, softbound, and is loaded with lots of diagrams, charts and graphs covering the use of the WW2 German Field Kitchen in Warm Countries. All of the recipes could apply to a field kitchen in any climate and anywhere in the world. This manual is a little bit of a less military manual than a cookbook with many pages of specific cooking directions and portions. Besides advice and recipes for warm weather cooking it even has a page of German/Italian words for the cook so the Italian and German cooks could get along in the kitchen. Early in the manual their are warnings about sanitation, bad water, flies and sandstorms. Their are pages of tips to make the cooks life a bit easier such a making an oven or big pot from a gasoline drum. Instide you will find about 30 pages of detailed recipes , incliding many recipes specifically for cooking in the mess tin and lid. In the back their is 10 pages of black and white pictures of plants and descriptions of the local North African plants and preparation tips with the plant names in German, Italian, Arabic and Egyption.. Our manual is broken down into the following chapters: 1. The General Cook Circumstances in Warm Countries, guiding principles for nutrition in war countries, 1. Protecting Against Climate Influences, protecting the field kitchen, storage room, storing the food. 2. Makeshif Cooking Equipment and Devices, fireplaces, cooking devices, roasting on a skewer, cooking on hot stones, stewing in glowing ashes, substitute measurements. 3. Water, Decontamination, filtering. 4. Cooking in General, in small groups, preparing the food, fresh meat, wild animals, fowl, fish, shellfish and crustaceans, fresh vegetables, legumes, dried vegetables, and dried potatoes, cooking time of the food, meat other food, seasoning the meal. 5. Cooking individual foods, meat and fish dishes, boiled meat, braised meat, broiled slices meat, goulash from fresh or canned meat, meatballs from fresh or canned meat, giblets, fowl, fish, shellfish and crustaceans. 6. Other dishes, rice, basic cooking risotto, with tomatoes or green peas, pilaf, rice frikandells, milk rice tomato rice with canned meat, plasta, basic cooking macaroni with ham, pasta as a side dish to meat, noodles with fresh meat and vegetables, grain, as a side dish to meat, noodles with fresh meat and vegetables, semolina and groats, polenta, buckwheat groats, dried vegetables, basic cooking dried vegetables as a side dish to meat, eggs scrambled or poached, dried potatoes, mashed, rosted dried, sweet food, condensed milk, vanilla pudding, rice cakes. 7. Improving cold food, canned meat and sausage, meat salad, roasting meats with onions or tomatoes, oiled sardines, fried herring, tuna fish, hard cheese, soft cheese cheest powder, bread spread from agar powder, bread soup, toasted bread. 8. Beverages, coffee, tea, cocoa, drinks from wine, bread with leaven, soups mush. Special Cooking Circumstances in the Individiual Regions. North Africa, Libya, Meat friom domestic animals, mutton stew, wild animals, Fresh fruits and Vegetables, bananas, sweet potatoes, egg plant, peanuts, fennel, pumpkin, corn on the cobb, palm cabbage, peppers, stalk or leaf cabbage, tomatoes, white cabbage, tomatoes, gourds, potatoes, cabbage, Appendices, German Italian Word List for the Cook, Pictures of edible plants and fruits of North Africa. This field cookbook is German Army Issue and by reading this manual you can even taste the field kitchen food made according to the original recipes. Buyer is to pay for the shipping charges!!!!!!!! The cost of shipping this item will be $5.45 (within the United States). We offer a 40% discount on the shipping costs of multiple sales for domestic delivery from any of our items that we sell on E-bay.. Upon E-bay notification of the winning auction please complete payment though PayPal for immediate shipping . By seeing your feedback left for us that will indicate your item arrived safely and in good condition plus that you were 100% satisfied with our transaction. Feedback will be left on all auctions. THANK YOU AND GOOD LUCK EBAY will send an Invoice to all auction winners shortly after close of the auction, but I WILL SEND A COMBINED INVOICE FOR WINNERS OF MULTIPLE AUCTIONS SOON AFTER CLOSING .... We Offer NO Local Pickup....
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