Source: File: Trench cookery, 1915.jpeg [online] see an original image at: <http://www.kingscollections.org/exhibitions/archives/studentdays/queen-elizabeth-college/queen-elizabeth-at-war/first-world-war-1914-1918> [16 October 2015].
Courses specifically designed
for war
Practicalities, centred on methodical
subjects;
In October 1915's inauguration of
studies
That would include Trench Camp
Cookery.
This was to be run alongside another -
Being 'Economic Housekeeping in War
Time' -
This had commenced at New King’s
College for women, starting 15
October 1915.
Classes were to have an outside
venue -
To take place in a trench, dug in
college grounds.
Lessons being available to
non-students,
In particular women in position as
war workers.
Importance of learning had increased,
With women employed in military
hospitals -
As porters, orderlies and cooks - all
Lessons would then take place
outdoors.
Varied subjects were to include building
Ovens, making fires and improvise
cooking
Implements - to recognise many women
As good cooks, acted in difficult
situations.
They might be called to cater for
high
Numbers - as over a 100 nurses - with
supplies
From army service corps could even
Include a whole sheep or maybe a bullock's body.
One lecturer confirmed concentrations
Would be learning to cook in large
quantities -
Soups, stewing, boiled puddings
And good quantities in supplying bread
loafs.
The course that had begun having started
15 October 1915, in economic
housekeeping -
Considered soldiers' billeting
allowances
Of cheap cut uses, like liver, tripe
and heads.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. Trench Cookery. The
Daily Telegraph, [online] 16 October. P.12. Col.6. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11922671/Daily-Telegraph-October-16-1915.html
[Accessed: 16 October 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication,16 October 2015).
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