取材自20世纪40年代初到70年代的杂志广告图首先声明一下，海军版“原汁蔬菜炖羊肉”（Lamb fricassee）的主料确实是羊，然而我们上一章也提到了，羊肉本身问题太大，所以我个人建议用鸡肉，它的色泽口感和热月酱（thermidor sauce）是绝配。把鸡肉换成龙虾或基围虾也可以。至于fricassee怎么读就要看各地的口音了，而美国装逼犯会把它读成Fuh-ri(fre)-kah-see，但美国的一般人或会法语的人（比如我自己。前面两个特征我都满足）会读成Fuh-ri（fre）-ca-sae。重音在最后那个音节-sae。 Continue Reading
This is St. Bernard’s approximation of ice cream. Looks pretty good. The article is here in Japanese, but I largely cobbled together from the Jefferson museum and the internet at large.
The source can be found here.
“If he had not tasted it before, Jefferson no doubt encountered ice cream during his time in France (1784-1789), and it was made and served in his kitchens for the rest of his life. Among the items filling the 86 crates of belongings that Jefferson had shipped back from France were “quatre moule a glasse” [four ice molds].”
What’s this got to do with the navy? Well, similarity of general methods. It’s general knowledge that ice cream was a coveted morale booster. There’s plenty of legends out there (most of which are true) involving destroyers picking up downed airmen from carriers and getting X gallons of ice cream for their efforts.
The thing is, navy ice cream during WW2 is a little different from what we’d expect. Taken from the Cookbook of the US Navy:
Ice Cream should be a “regular” on the Navy menu. In addition to being one of America’s favorite desserts, ice cream is nourishing and economical.
The following directions, if carefully observed, will be helpful in producing ice cream of good quality.
Keep the freezer, utensils used in measuring the ingredients, ice cream cans and all other equipment scrupulously clean and properly sterilized.
Weigh or measure all ingredients accurately to insure uniformity, proper texture and pleasing flavor in the finished product.
Follow directions carefully.
It is important that the correct “overrun” be reached before the batch is drawn off from the freezer. The “overrun” which refers to the increase in volume, obtained by whipping air into the mix during the freezing process, may vary from 80% to 100%. An “overrun” of 100% is most commonly used in commercial practice.
A simple way to determine “overrun” is as follows : Weigh 1 cupful of the original mix, deducting the weight of the cup. When it is determined that the proper “overrun” has been reached, weigh 1 cupful of the ice cream and again determine the net weight. If the weight of the ice cream is just 50% of the weight of the original mix, the proper “overrun” of 100% has been obtained. For example, if the cup of mix originally weighed 8 ounces, the sample taken just before the batch is drawn should weigh 4 ounces. Ice cream with too much “overrun” will melt rapidly and show many air bubbles in the melted product.
Keep the blades of the freezer sharp and properly adjusted since faulty adjustment allows a thin layer of cream to freeze along the inside wall of the freezer. This tends to insulate the batch from the refrigerant and lengthens the freezing time and decreases the “overrun.”
Store the ice cream in a hardening cabinet or room at 10° F. below 0° F.
When serving, have the dispensing cabinet at 6° F. Use a “rolling” motion with the scoop. Digging or pushing the scoop into the ice cream will compress it and reduce the number of servings per gallon.
The ice cream came in a dry powder mix. You’re supposed to add water to it at cold temperatures (so not freezing – the manual says about 40-70 degrees (Fahrenheit)) and then freeze it down. The machine’ll do the stirring work for you (otherwise you’d have to stir for a long time) and you just have to draw the ice cream out into a can.
“What happened to pictures from Boston?”
Zero lost his camera. We’re in the process of getting it back.
So in the meantime have a long-haired Tiny E. 🙂
「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」
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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