CHRISTMAS DINNER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 January 1944, Page 2

CHRISTMAS DINNER

IN SOUTH-WEST PACIFIC JUNGLE. HOW SOME NEW ZEALANDERS FARED. In a letter to his mother in Miistcrton, a New Zealand soldier serving in a forward Pacific area, gives an account of the enterprising effort made to serve to the troops in the steaming jungle a traditional Christmas dinner. .The soldier writes: ‘‘Well, another Christnias has gone under, perhaps not with the usual gusto, but we had a pretty fair try in those parts. We had a traditional ’ Christmas dinner, comprising turkey, plum duff, and all the necessary incidentals. Our ‘Pippers’ did the decent thing by dishing it out for us. So, taking it all round, a good time was enjoyed by all. The menu was:— •'Dinner.—Roast turkey, . seasoned with cranbei-ry sauce, mashed potatoes, cababge, green peas. Sweets: Fruit salad and cream, steamed Christmas pudding and -vanilla custard. Coffee, tea, raisins, candy, cigars. “Tea.—Cold roast turkey, cold roast lamb, pickles, beetroot.- peaches, pears, pineapple, fruit cake, raisins, candy, tea, fruit juice. “Looks pretty good, doesn’t .it? The spuds wore of the dehydrated variety and the cream tinned, but otherwise it was the 'dinkuin oil.’ The only necessary commodity missing was the beer.”