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「アメリカ海軍メニュー·1941年版」手作りアイスクリーム

by 零火 2017年4月30日

「アイスクリームは海軍のレギュラーメニューになるべきだ。この食べ物はアメリカ人の最愛のデザートである以上、値段はとても安いだからな。以下は上質のアイスクリームを作るための製作手順だ」

——『アメリカ海軍調理メニュー』第68ページ

はは、アイスクリームを「アメリカ人最愛のデザート」と呼ぶとは、少々誇張した文面だが、美味しいアイスは確かに海軍メニューの自慢の一品であった。基本的に、スペースに余裕がある船なら必ずアイスクリームマシンを配備していたはず、海軍部がわざわざ「特殊補給艦」という名目で毎日に最低限でも5000ガロン（18927リットルあるいは18.9m³）のアイスクリームを生産出来る軍艦を建造したほどの人気だ。二戦時のアイスクリームは主にアイスクリームパウダー（ice cream powderまたの名はアイスクリーム粉とは、牛乳、砂糖を原料とした粉状の食材で、アイスクリームを作るための原材料である）によって作られたもので、今のアイスクリームとは作り方が違います。だが味としては大差ないはず。

「こいつが噂の特殊補給艦ことアイスクリーム補給艦だ。アイスクリームマシンを出来る限り搭載するため、この船にはエンジンが装備されていない。移動するためには他の船に引っ張られてもらう必要がある。この船は荷物車６４台分の冷凍肉、500トンの新鮮野菜と果物を運べる。そして毎日に５トンほどの氷を作れる。この氷はアイスの原料だ。」

こういった歴史的経緯があったから、今日私は皆に伝説のアメリカ海軍の至宝、手作りアイスのレシピを披露したいと思います。
噂のよると、このアイスの作り方って、ジェファーソン大統領御自ら発明したとか。厳格的に言うと、彼はアメリカ海軍の創始者の中の一人でもある。18世紀の時から、彼は海軍の食事改善に尽力していた、このアメリカ国会図書館所蔵の手書きレシピがその証拠である。

「残念なことに、大統領閣下の手書きは下手すぎて読み辛い。それにわざわざ18世紀のレシピを参考とする必要なんて最初から無いと私は思います。そもそも当時のアメリカの海軍が所有するポンコツ戦艦には冷蔵庫なんて配備されているはずもなく、何の設備も無い状態で大統領閣下のレシピを再現することはとても難しい。少なくとも私が二回試した結果、最後に作れたのはただの氷だけ。勇気のある指揮官は自分で確かめてもいいぞ」

準備時間：膂力と冷蔵庫の強度による

材料：

卵の黄身六個
バニラ豆一本（あるいはバニラエッセンス少量）
生クリーム二クォーター（大瓶）※
※クリームの種類別は脂肪分により分けられている、おすすめはヘビークリーム（脂肪分36％以上）。ライトクリームを用いる時、アイスクリームの食感と調理手順が大きく変わる。
塩少量
砂糖1/4-1/2ポンド（100-220ｇ）
ガーゼ二枚（アイスクリームを濾過するため）

料理手順/：

1.不純物が見当たらない綺麗なレモン色になるまで、黄身を丁寧にかき混ぜる。弱火で生クリームを温めて、バニラ豆を入れる。沸騰させる必要はないが、香りを出す必要はある。そのための時間は五分ほど。
※この期間、生クリームを攪拌し続ける必要がある、さもないと大惨事が発生するぞ。
うまくかき混ぜた黄身に砂糖を入れる、生クリームを温める火を消し塩を入れたあと、大きな杯くらいの量の生クリームを黄身に入れる、この間は手を止まらずかき混ぜ続ける必要がある。黄身と生クリームをうまくかき混ざった後、残りの生クリームを10-15分くらいの時間をかけてゆっくりかき混ぜながら投入する。
黄身と生クリームの混合物がスプーンの後ろに粘りつくほど濃くなった時、初歩的な成果は達成された。ガーゼ二枚でアイスクリームを濾過して、バニラ豆を取り出す。ジェファーソン大統領の時代に冷蔵庫はいないので、元々のレシピだとここからはアイス箱を使うだが、現代科学の恩恵により、我々は冷蔵庫を用いた二種類の作り方を選ぶことができる。
当年没冰箱，所以杰弗逊总统这一步用的是冰盒。而借助高科技工具，我基本摸索出两种方案。
1. 膂力に自身がない方は、アイスクリームを4℃の冷蔵庫にいれて一時間くらい冷却させた後、好きな入れ物に入れて（大きな丼が結構かと）零度以下の冷蔵庫に戻す。泡立ちを防止するために、戻す時に入れ物とアイスを叩く必要がある。15-30ごとにアイスクリームを取り出してかき混ぜて、完全にアイス状（あるいは氷状）に凍結した頃には調理は完成だ。
2. 膂力に自身ある方は、そのまま冷凍されたアイスを取り出して30-45分くらいの時間を掛けてかき混ぜましょう。この間アイスクリーム機（大統領のレシピにあるSabottiereというもの、これはフランス人が発明したアイスクリームを作るための道具であるが、実際のところ氷を狭間に入れたただのバケツである）があれば良い、なければ氷箱や氷を入れた入れ物でアイスクリームを冷却させ続ける必要がある。
  
  Sabottiereアイスクリームマシン、monticello.orgより

それでも溶けることを心配するなら、撹拌する前に塩と水を少し入れるもよし、冷蔵庫に戻してもよし。

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[Mail Call 04/28/17] Sleep edition (again)

by Morgane 2017年4月29日

Okay. xD I think sleep edition posts are basically days where I get home late, want to put something on the site (since I got done with writing) but doesn’t feel like putting it online just yet.

“Question: Excluding STEC and other ship girl agencies for now, but in terms of build-up and capabilities of Pacific’s ‘modern’ (conventional/non-fairy tech) military (’90s and beyond), whether it’s the United States, China, the United Kingdom, Japan, *insert country name here*, how well do they fare against the Abyssal Fleet as a last line of defense? Say, if they were to defeat STEC and the other agencies, what then? The military has to fill the gap somehow to defend humanity. What are the contingency plans for a STEC defeat? Or there is none? It’s either death or survival.”

Not very well.

The Abyssals are optimized against conventional human armies with all kinds of nasty tricks up their sleeves. Despair is a powerful tool and they excel at it. If the initial shock and awe isn’t sufficient to cow humanity, the Abyssals can easily enter a war of attrition that no human country could realistically hope to recover from. Human production would simply not be able to keep up – even if a full salvo of tomahawk missiles could kill an Abyssal scout there will not be enough produced to matter in the long run. Every ship or aircraft lost against the Abyssals is one that is more or less lost permanently given the speed of the Abyssal incursion.

Or, simply put. How long would it take to build a new Arleigh Burke or a new F-22? Do you think the Abyssals will give you time to breath and recuperate?

Humanity has many tactical short-term options, but even WITH the shipgirls and fairies, what are their strategic options? How would you even plan a strategy to “win” against the Abyssals without knowing what works on them and what don’t?

The reason why folks like Mike are important is that at the “beginning” of Pacific’s tale, this is the first time ever (thanks to stuff we’ve revealed in OCEAN) that humanity has considered seriously a long-term response or solution to the Abyssals. STEC is trying to figure out something that’s beyond “survive for as long as possible.” Or, rather, it’s figuring out better ways to ensure humanity’s survival.

“I wouldn’t be surprised if the military has contingency plans for fighting *an* Abyssal with conventional forces – though I would bet on it being more of a delaying action than a real plan for victory. However, given that STEC is humanity’s last, best hope, I don’t think the military can afford to have their best and brightest spending time and resources planning humanity’s hopeless last stand instead of doing all they can to support that one hope.”

The Soviets and Chinese definitely have plans to fight “an” Abyssal, and the US already have plans for integrating conventional naval and air units into anti-Abyssal task forces. Japan and the UK are the odd ones out in that the segregation between function is still pretty distinctive.

However, you’re right. It’s not really STEC’s job to tell other services what to do. That’s really up to the proper parties involved.

English Devblog, 前线来信·Mail call, 美舰本·Pacific Ship-Girl Introduction, Silent Service

Silent Service II: Cusk

by k9catforce 2017年4月28日

Hiya Folks! K9 here. Finally got wordpress up and running, so Morgane doesn’t have to post for me. Today we’d like to show you guys a new subgirl!

How’s your day –

Commander, I’m going to need the practice range for ALL of tomorrow. Yes-yes, from 0800 to 1600! I’m on the cusp of a major breakthrough here! If this works we change all of ROCKETRY forever!

This time, it’s the real deal!

Forget what I said last time, this is new data. Look. Look here. This new fuel mixture gives us a pretty solid increase to our current range. Gonna guess we can push 20%, but even so 10% is nothing to sniff at. I’ve lowered the risk of spontaneous combustion too, just as ordered!

…30%. A reduction of 30%.

Whaddaya mean 70% is really high?

Commander this is ROCKET FUEL. Rocket. Fuel. BURN. That’s its job!

…

Yes, I know! Mahan’s tests concluded that the superstructure of the – it’s not pressure! It’s materials. That was the last missile. This one’s new. Totally different. Mike, are you even reading the weekly briefs the fairies are bringing to your desk?

Why do you think I’m here? You’ve GOT to let me try this. Just one more time!

No, you can’t push it to Jer. She’s already rejected the proposal three times in the past hour! It wasn’t even my proposal was bad. She’s literally getting me on technical trivialities that nobody’s followed for decades!

Aw come on, pretty please?

…okay, fine! I’ll make it “safer…”

*mumbles*

Anyway, whaddaya wanna ask?

How was your day?

Good. You could make it great if you’d just sign here and give me permission…

Okay. I’ll do it just this once –

Yay! Love ya commander, you’re the best! Just watch! It’s gonna work this time.

Tell me a bit about your namesake.

What, SS 340? You know if we’re gonna get technical I shouldn’t even be in Pacif – I mean, uh, I wouldn’t have really fallen under current paradigms of shipgirl appearances –

Right. The actual submarine. What can I say? She was a good sub. The Cusk served for twenty-four and a half years. Commissioned just slightly after – well, if we’re gonna get technical she was launched on July 28th of 1945 – World War II, she’s famous for being the world’s first missile submarine.

That’s right. She launched the first guided missile from a submarine in 1947. Affectionately known as the “Loon,” the LTV-N-2 missile was an improved copy of the German V1 Buzz Bomb. Yeah. That thing. Hitler’s terror weapon. Horribly inaccurate but it managed to give the Brits quite the scare. Anyways, by the end of the war, we managed to capture a few and study it. The brass thought it’d make the perfect stealth weapon if one could just launch it from a submarine, and that’s exactly what the Cusk accomplished.

Basically, as one of the first guided missiles built by the navy, it provided the US with a lot of practical knowledge regarding missile design and development. Pretty much all the advanced stuff that came later have the Loon to thank for, and I’d go as far as to say that it’s one of the top three weapons of war that permanently changed the fate of the world. The ability for a submarine to carry ballistic missiles anywhere around the globe and launch them at a moment’s notice … Need I say more?

Anyways. The Cusk then did her time, and did what a submarine was asked to do. Unlike me, she completed all of her missions more or less flawlessly –

D’aww, just like me? Now you’re making me blush. So you did read the reports after all!

Pro~gress~

How do you feel about the coming Abyssal War?

Victory through technology. If we’re gonna beat the uglies we’re going to have to push our gear to the limit. We only have so many shipgirls that can be deployed at a time. Something like the Loon would easily turn the tide if we can get the thing working and the little ones to start mass producing this stuff – preferably before they show up in force.

So, this girl was actually Sima’s idea. Sima found some info on the Loon and decided that she would be an interesting girl to cover. Morgane and I agreed, and here we are! Cusk. I think she looks great.

When I saw Sima’s first Cusk draft, the first thing that came to mind was the half-brilliant half-crazy aviation and space pioneers that I oh-so wanted to be when I was little. The run up to build speed, the throwing arm cocked back and ready to throw, the look of pure joy on her face from the sheer fun of not knowing what will happen next… She’s living my childhood dream. I can’t help but smile when I see Cusk. Sima’s really gotten better, being able to communicate these things by drawing. Morgane, being an actual scientist, is having a lot of fun with her too. She knows just how to make Cusk the best character she can be, and she’s done a lot more with Cusk than I ever could. (She’s the one who wrote most of the introduction up there!)

Thanks to the Loon, we’ve had a lot more Jojo references. Morgane wanted to do a GERMAN SCIENCE IS BEST IN THE WORLD joke, but didn’t manage to fit it in. Actually, with the Loon we wanted to dive a bit into the whole “German technology is superior” concept. Just how much of it is true? We’ll see just what we dig up.

As a side note, a quick update for Silent Service itself. So far we’ve got 11/12 new subgirls drawn. All of the new subgirls have at least have their personality and details outlined, so from here on out it’s a matter of writing out everyone’s intro, various slice-of-life stories, and finishing up Tautog’s Sub Corner.

Oh. And getting the Bikini Calendar put together. That’s important too.

It’s a whole team effort here, and so far things are running on schedule. Morgane’s busy directing Sima and editing my works, Sune’s been chugging away at Japanese sources and generally dabbing a bit in everything, and I’ve been writing out the subgirls, stories, and sub corners.

And as always, thanks for your support too!

-K9