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spamtrap1888 > wrote:

> On May 22, 8:18*pm, Omelet > wrote:
> > Sorry, but I thought this was funny as hell. ;-)
> >
> > U.S. Military recipe for brownies and oatmeal cookies.
> >
> > It's twenty-six pages long and replete with such gems as:
> >
> > "3.2.4 Shortening, hydrogenated. *Shortening shall be a refined,
> > hydrogenated vegetable oil or combination of refined vegetable oils
> > which
> > are in common use by the baking industry. *Coconut and palm kernel oils
> > may
> > be used only in the coating. *The shortening shall have a stability of
> > not
> > less than 100 hours as determined by the Active Oxygen Method (AOM) in
> > Method Cd 12-57 of the MIL-C-44072C Commercial Fats and Oils chapter in
> > the
> > Official and Tentative Methods of the American Oil Chemists Society. *
> > The
> > shortening may contain alpha monoglycerides and an antioxidant or
> > combination of antioxidants, as permitted by the Federal Grain
> > Inspection
> > Service (FGIS), and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and
> > regulations
> > promulgated thereunder."
> >
> > PDFhttp://liw.iki.fi/liw/misc/MIL-C-44072C.pdf
>
>
> Having been in procurement, I can appreciate that every line spelling
> out requirements was borne of bitter experience dealing with suppliers
> trying to make the most profit they can. (why prohibit use of rancid
> fats? Because experience taught them if it wasn't in the spec, people
> would use rancid fat.)

Yeah, just from the above, it doesn't look like a recipe, but a
procurement spec. My wife did food testing for the US Army for 7 years,
and she had some real horror stories, although she didn't get involved
with the bad stuff. Lots of companies exist by ripping off the
government, to the extent that legitimate companies sometimes refuse to
bid.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA