Armed Forces Recipe Card Collection Availability
John Shotsky
The Armed Forces Recipe Card Collection is a group of over 1600 recipes that are used by the US Armed Forces for feeding our troops. The collection is available in PDF form at:
http://www.quartermaster.army.mil/jccoe/publications/recipes/index/full_index.pdf
In addition to the recipes, there is quite a bit of text available in the above PDF series which describes the various techniques, scaling, etc. Everything you need to know about using those cards. The recipes are all set up for 100 servings, and information is given to help you scale to other serving amounts. Unfortunately, it doesn't utilize metric units, and scaling can be a little difficult using US units. For those of you that cook for groups, such as church groups, family gatherings, BBQ's, etc, some of these recipes will work very well. Everything from beverages to desserts to salads to entrees are provided. One favorite is the Knickerbocker Beans, which might just be a good thing to smoke along with some baby back ribs. In fact, I recently scaled that recipe down and used it. Good eats.
I have used my recipe formatting tools to convert the recipes from PDF to both MasterCook and Living Cookbook formats. In addition to reformatting the ingredient lines to a form usable by recipe management software, I also added metric units to the recipes, and I produced a 'metric first' version of each as well. Scaling in metric is pretty straightforward.
For MasterCook, they are in the native MasterCook cookbook binary form, because when MasterCook exports, it converts decimals to fractions, whether that is what you want or not. You do not want metric units in fractions. Living Cookbook is in the standard Living Cookbook export format, FDX, and has no problem with decimals.
These files are pretty large, around 5 megs each. They are too big to upload to Yahoo and are troublesome in email as well, so I keep them on my FTP site, available via my signature, below. You'll find some other free stuff there too.
The log in to the FTP is NOT anonymous, so you must use a user name and a password. Those are, for these files:
Freestuff/freestuff.
Enjoy!
John Shotsky
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Beaverton, Oregon, 97006
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Scot Murphy
The Armed Forces Recipe Card Collection is a group of over 1600 recipes that are used by the US Armed Forces for feeding our troops. The collection is available in PDF form at:
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