Sedalia Dave Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 US Navy's soft sugar cookie recipe from WWII, and how to make it at home The series host and public affairs specialist Thomas Frezza told Fox News that he started making the videos during the coronavirus pandemic. "I have a few different editions of the U.S. Navy's Cookbook and it was during quarantine, I was looking for something to do and something that we could share with the general public," Frezza said. Frezza has also made apple dumplings, a baked bean sandwich, salmon cakes, bean soup, wheat griddle cakes, chocolate chip cookies, tapioca cream, simmered frankfurters and rice pudding with raisins, among others. Frezza’s videos can be found on the Naval History and Heritage Command’s YouTube channel. If you want to make the soft sugar cookies that sailors would have eaten in 1945, here are the original and scaled-down recipes, according to Frezza. NOTE: In place of the nutmeg you can substitute Cinnamon Original Ingredients 1½ gallons flour 5 tablespoons baking powder 2 tablespoons salt 7 tablespoons nutmeg 1½ quarts shortening 2¼ quarts sugar 12 eggs 2 tablespoons vanilla 1⅜ quarts milk Scaled-down Ingredients 2½ cups flour 1½ teaspoons baking powder ½ teaspoons salt 2 teaspoons nutmeg ½ cup and 1 tablespoon shortening 1 cup sugar 1-2 eggs ½ teaspoon and ¼ teaspoon vanilla ½ cup and ¼ tablespoon milk Scale the ingredients into the mixing bowl. Mix at medium speed to a smooth dough. Drop dough on greased baking sheets. Baking: Bake at 375F for 8 to 10 minutes. Remove cookies while warm from pan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 my recipe: "Open packet of store-bought cookies, then consume" simple and easy, with very little mess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waxahachie Kid #17017 L Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 I wish I knew where that recipe was, when I was in the Navy. The Navy was the only entity that could, and did, mess up Jell-O!!! The best cooks we had, were Marine cooks, on the base I was on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted June 5, 2021 Author Share Posted June 5, 2021 1 hour ago, Waxahachie Kid #17017 L said: I wish I knew where that recipe was, when I was in the Navy. The Navy was the only entity that could, and did, mess up Jell-O!!! The best cooks we had, were Marine cooks, on the base I was on. Best meals I routinely got in the Chow hall were midrats. Steak and eggs on occasion plus omelets cooked to order. When in C-School, I figured out that the best food was served the 3 days after payday. Lots of surf-n-turf, shrimp, steak. The closer to payday it got the worse the food. Shortly After I started dating the woman that was to be come my wife. Got hooked on her home cooking and the rest as they say is history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chili Ron Posted June 5, 2021 Share Posted June 5, 2021 Howdy, I once knew a girl who burned instant pudding. But wow was she gorgeous. She would have fit right in with the ladies on Price is Right. Best CR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joke 'um Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 The Navy had a recipe for soft cookies!?! Who'd 'a thunk it? Seriously, in my 21 years in the Navy, I don't remember much really bad food. Not like Mom's, but, she never had to cook four meals a day for 200 to 3000 hungry sailors. BZ to any old CS or MS out there in SASS land. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 My dad was a quartermaster aboard the USS Idaho, BB-42, during WW2. I bet my dad eat those cookies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 8 hours ago, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said: my recipe: "Open packet of store-bought cookies, then consume" simple and easy, with very little mess. My waistline is testament to the same thing happening at my house...........every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 One recipe makes maybe 30 dozen cookies. imagine being the grunt who must wrangle all those cookies ten times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 On 6/5/2021 at 4:33 PM, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said: my recipe: "Open packet of store-bought cookies, then consume" simple and easy, with very little mess. That’s my recipe too, I don’t think I’ve ever had a bad cookie in my life !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 I just reread the recipe. That's a LOT of nutmeg. Plus it seems odd to have milk in a cookie recipe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-Eyed Buck,SASS #14795 Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 Wonder if the reduced one actually works? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 8 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said: I just reread the recipe. That's a LOT of nutmeg. Plus it seems odd to have milk in a cookie recipe. These days, maybe a blend of nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves and ginger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 On 6/6/2021 at 12:56 AM, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: My waistline is testament to the same thing happening at my house...........every day. Now by golly you're not supposed to imitate my bad examples! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 7 hours ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said: These days, maybe a blend of nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves and ginger. I was thinking along those lines. But that original recipe, VERY nutmeg-forward. A little bit goes a long way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted June 7, 2021 Share Posted June 7, 2021 2 hours ago, Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 said: Now by golly you're not supposed to imitate my bad examples! It's all because of the covid pandemic. I got my first shot and had a terrible reaction: within two hours I went through a family size package of Double Stuff Oreos (except for one or two that I shared with my little four footed girl friend). After the second shot I had a mildly sore arm, but wiped out most of a carton of vanilla ice cream dosed in real maple syrup and sprinkled with crushed pecans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief Rick Posted June 8, 2021 Share Posted June 8, 2021 On 6/5/2021 at 3:33 PM, Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 said: my recipe: "Open packet of store-bought cookies, then consume" simple and easy, with very little mess. Unfortunately, that's the way of the current US Navy, too. A lot of the meals are pre-prepared, frozen entrees that only require heating up. Taking all the deep-fat fryers off the ships but putting all this frozen stuff full of additives & preservatives (sodium) because of convenience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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