
Learning How To Toss A Pancake The Army Way.

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Learning How To Toss A Pancake The Army Way.
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There may be rather more than two weeks to go to Shrove Tuesday, but when the day dawns the Army Catering Corps are not going to be caught with their pancakes down-. Accordingly 50 apprentice cocks were deployed at Corps HQ In Alderahot for what the blackboard revealed to be"Manual of Army Catering Services Recipe No. 559. Pancakes, 50.” In commandof the exercise was former Warrant Officer William Jenner, BBM - and the bit where the pancakes were tossed turned out to be an only slightly flawed masterpiece of military precision. on the ward “One”; pans were grasped firmly in the right hand. "Two”; pans were thrust forward at waist level. "Three’; with a sharp upward movement,pancakes were propelled into the air. Most of them fell back into the pans, as laid down in the Catering Services Manual. One or two flapped soggily on to the floor. "Pick “em up”, said Mr. Jenner resignedly. As it happens, none of this particular set of pancakes were eaten. But the Shrove Tuesday batch should be worth sampling. PHOTO SHOWS:- Learning how to toss a pancake theAmy way.The trial pancakes were thrown away afterwards.
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April 28th, 2014
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