Ex-Forces

ButcherBill said:
Kinda still on topic but I had double lever arch folders full of ACC recipes, cost a small fortune from GCHQ at St Omar Barracks, my boss at the time was an ex WO2 in the ACC & gifted me his hardback copy printed in 1967 (I think), at some point my Ex-wife threw them both/all out. Made a point of buying another copy a few years ago.
Might not be an interesting or still valid fact but the ACC Catering Manual was/is the only recipe book with recipes in portions of 10 and 50, That crock pot of your pasta is probably a 10 portion recipe :sneaky:
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Is that why she became the ex wife?
 
ButcherBill said:
Kinda still on topic but I had double lever arch folders full of ACC recipes, cost a small fortune from GCHQ at St Omar Barracks, my boss at the time was an ex WO2 in the ACC & gifted me his hardback copy printed in 1967 (I think), at some point my Ex-wife threw them both/all out. Made a point of buying another copy a few years ago.
Might not be an interesting or still valid fact but the ACC Catering Manual was/is the only recipe book with recipes in portions of 10 and 50, That crock pot of your pasta is probably a 10 portion recipe :sneaky:
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Back in a previous job in a regional office we would make Christmas dinner for the outstation staff, my father worked in one of the outstations and one day my mother handed me a book wrapped in brown paper with the clear instruction to not tell my father.


That book was her stolen copy of the 1965 edition, probably stolen circa 1970, as hers includes a copy of Amendment one.
After he died I spotted it among her recipe books, now without the brown paper cover

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In this world of modern technology, there are downloadable copies available





 
Tommikka said:
Back in a previous job in a regional office we would make Christmas dinner for the outstation staff, my father worked in one of the outstations and one day my mother handed me a book wrapped in brown paper with the clear instruction to not tell my father.


That book was her stolen copy of the 1965 edition, probably stolen circa 1970, as hers includes a copy of Amendment one.
After he died I spotted it among her recipe books, now without the brown paper cover

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In this world of modern technology, there are downloadable copies available





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That's the jobbie.
 
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