HOW TO FEED AN ARMY

HOW TO FEED AN ARMY

SPRINGFIELD, Va. (Wireless Flash) -- You may feel like you're feeding an army at your family gatherings -- but a new CD-ROM cookbook actually shows you how to cook for the Army. The Armed Forces Service and Index of Recipes contains 1300 of the most popular recipes used in U.S. Army mess halls and each recipe is for 100 people. Some of the gut-busting dishes include... -- A pancake batter which contains nine pounds of flour, 27 eggs and 2 cups of salad oil. -- Beef stew made with 30 pounds of beef, six pounds of tomatoes, eight pounds of carrots and 10 pounds of potatoes. -- And a glutton's" piece de resistance:" A cheesecake that contains 10 pounds of cream cheese and three pounds of sugar.