Cooking With History 

Dateline:  January 6, 1942, President Roosevelt outlines his "Blue Print For Victory Program".   

The IMHS would like to create a cookbook as a fundraising opportunity.  We would also like to take this one step further by including a bit of history and fun along with your favorite Double Chocolate Fudge Cookies. 

We plan to include items such as Uncle Sam's Food Rules, How To Stretch Coffee and Sugar, Tips on Saving Waste Fat (it was needed for its glycerine), pointers on making Ration Points go further, and some of the food rationing era posters from WWI and WWII.     

So, all of you Kitchen Commandoes:  send us your best (or your mothers or grandmothers best) recipe for Victory Garden Delight, Marbled Macaroni (one of its ingredients was SPAM) and One Egg-Low Sugar Cake. 

And, to all of you Foxhole Gourmands:  Tell us which combination of C-Rations or MREs made the best Frontline Stew.  What did you do to make your meals more palatable or interesting? 

To those of you who are interested in research, see if you can find out how the various military rations (Hardtack, K-Rations, C-Rations, LRPs, MREs, etc.,) came to be, or why Tabasco Sauce is included in MREs. 

Any other ideas or suggestions are most welcome as well.  Please type or print your recipes (we want to make sure we get everything right!).  Be sure to include your name and if it is a Frontline Stew recipe, where you were when you perfected it.  You can mail your recipes, comments or suggestions to us at:

Idaho Military Historical Society
4040 W. Guard St.
Boise, ID 83705

 Or e-mail them to us at galvarez@imd.idaho.gov

 Or deliver them to the Museum on your next visit. 

So far we have a recipe for Poor Man's Cake and Gunpowder Eggs (Eggs Ranchero with Horseradish!)

 This will be a fun, historical and interesting project and will be as good as YOU make it!!