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The Pussers Cook Book: Traditional Royal Navy recipes
£14.00
This is the revised and updated edition of The Pussers Cook Book
- recipes
- Dits
- tidbits
- facts
- memoriesThe Pussers Cook Book contains many of the most popular and loved traditional dishes served in the Royal Navy’s Galleys from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s.
Some of these dishes are being served on the ships and shore bases of today’s modern navy, although some have been slightly altered and others given, let’s say, more politically correct names.
Woven between the recipes in this book are true facts and tidbits about the food, the cooks and general life aboard ship.
Along with the recipes, this book aims to preserve a segment of British history, Royal Navy social history, which is fading all too quickly and would otherwise be lost in the grey sea-mists of oblivion.
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Additional information
| Publisher | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (17 Mar. 2017) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 108 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1544690584 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1544690582 |
| Dimensions | 15.24 x 0.66 x 22.86 cm |
by Scribes
I reviewed this book for my RNA Branch – despite printing an index the pages are not numbered certainly on the two copies I purchased. The book does not carry a proper price marking with the result that various suppliers offer the book at anything between £9.31 and over £15.00. This is relatively expensive for a paperback with quite limited recipes. I joined the RN in 1948 and have personally produced many a Pot Mess, the tinned variety, and in ships with Canteen Messing. As far as I can recall, in my time it was rarely prepared by the Cooks, they just cooked it. Canteen Messing. Good reading especially the comments re Dockyard Gate fine dining and the best Cornish pasties that you will ever eat. However, overall disappointing. Sorry.
by Andy
Brought back memories of the mess deck terminology around maritime food and explained the way of making the old favourites.
by Amazon Customer
This book almost defies the Trade description Act. 108 pages with 18 of them blank or such spurious illustrations that they waste a page. There are only 14 recipes worthy of being called a recipe that works out at £1.00 per recipe. Some of the sections are also mis collated. If I had purchased this at a proper bookshop I would be asking for a refund. or in fact i would have looked at it and realised what a rip off it is. Buyer Beware. I couldn’t give this zero stars but would if I could.
by David Wiggin
Had one similar good reading and sometimes funny
by Thelma
This product was bought as a gift but I did steal a quick flick through and memories of my life in the Senior Service cam flooding back with the recipes for babies heads and cheesy-hammy-eggies.
by Norman Bell
Some of the humour made me smile bu may be not to everyone’s likeing.
by Bob M
A gift for a former RN CPO who served in the 1960s. He said it was brilliant and brought the memories flooding back.
by Amazon Customer
Forgotten Recipes brought to life again, excellent