In order to facilitate the preservation of relief rations, the dehydration process is very thorough, so the texture is too hard. Generally, people have to use a hammer to crush it before eating it, and then eat it with water. It is almost impossible to swallow without drinking water. Consumers will add some vegetables to the pot and cook it into a paste for consumption.
Relief rations are essentially simplified individual soldier rations that are incomparable in taste and nutrition to ordinary military ready-to-eat meals. In particular, its hard, coarse texture and bizarre taste have left it rarely praised except by hungry refugees. During a business trip, Skade had to eat relief rations for a week due to a mistake in the logistics department. He once made a very harsh comment: A person can live on the grass series for half a year, and he can live for seven days without eating, and only eat relief. If you eat rations, you can only live for three days. In the mainland strategy, relief rations were nicknamed "teeth bricks".
Some efforts have been made to taste the relief rations. Within a few months after the rations were developed, the R&D team imitated modern instant noodles and developed various flavors such as cumin, spicy, spicy, seafood, green onion, etc. by adding various spices and seasonings. Of course, the change in taste does not actually increase the appetite. Except for hungry people, ordinary soldiers and workers still give them a bad review. As Dongmen Chuiyu, who has eaten all the fast food products that have been put into production or not yet put into production, said: For hungry people, the variety of flavors cannot fill the empty stomach; for people who can eat normally, No amount of sophisticated seasoning can make relief rations tasty.
From the beginning of "Operation Engine" to transport refugees until the end of the mainland raids, tens of millions of relief rations of various types were produced, saving millions of refugees from starvation. These rations were wrapped in oil paper and neatly stacked in standard twenty-liter wooden boxes made of nailed wooden boards. This wooden box is exactly the same as the wooden box containing ammunition, so it is usually painted red and yellow to distinguish it. . Later, the imperial troops who went on conquests sometimes carried some to stabilize people's hearts or to pay commissions to migrant workers.
Relief rations from this period were printed in eye-catching bold letters: "A gift from the Senate and the people of the Empire."
The shelf life of relief rations is set at three years. In fact, in relatively low-temperature and dry environments, some batches of rations produced late and produced under better processing conditions can still be eaten safely after twenty years of storage. Of course this ration had become extremely hard and almost impossible to chew.
A large amount of water must be added to make it into a paste before it can be eaten. Due to its storability, in some remote outposts on the imperial border with long logistical lines, trading stations and research stations deep in the wilderness, relief rations were once tightly packed and used as storage in certain rooms. Internal non-load-bearing walls, as a last resort emergency reserve. This measure saved the lives of many soldiers and exploration and expedition personnel on duty in remote locations, allowing them to persist until the rescue forces arrived when surrounded by barbarians.
"Because relief rations are very strong and difficult to eat, there are always expired relief rations left in warehouses of military and planning institutes in various places because no one has eaten them. The general method of disposal is to hand them to the agricultural department to grind them and then breed them with earthworms. However, some of the better-quality ones will be picked out, and some soldiers will use bayonets to cut relief rations into various handicrafts or small daily necessities in their spare time. For example, the pipe you see is from the veteran Navy Admiral Shi Zhiqi Pipes made by himself using relief rations. In addition, the veteran Engineer General Pan Da has collected relief ration pipes from all years since the advent of relief rations. Please see, this is the sī collection donated by Senator Pan to our museum. They are respectively It has different smells, such as the smell of seafood in the fifth year of the Holy Year, the cumin and spicy flavor in the sixth year of the Holy Year, the coconut fragrance in the seventh year of the Holy Year, and as for the eighth year of the Holy Year, it was brought about by the expansion of the fertilizer factory in the previous year. The bumper harvest of potatoes and sweet potatoes led to the livestock industry, and corned beef pellets were added, which was unprecedented at the time. Now we can still see whole corned beef pellets on the surface of the pipe. Therefore, the relief rations made in the Holy Eighth Year "The pipe is also called the Great Harvest Pipe." The Imperial Military Museum commentator's explanation of the relief ration pipe. People in Lingao, whether they are naturalized people or indigenous people, now know that the Australians are about to have a large-scale operation.
This is not unfounded. Anyone who has a little knowledge of the way "Australians" or "thieves" do things will know: the busy scene in the food factory of the Ministry of Light Industry reveals this disturbing situation. omen.
In the new factory building of Wenlan Riverside Food Factory, relief rations are being put into large-scale production, and the output of grassland dry food has also increased three times than usual. Starting in March, the food factory is tasked with producing 100,000 No. 1 relief rations and 20,000 grassland series dry rations every month. The mission assigned by the Planning Institute is! By the end of June 1631, 400,000 No. 1 relief rations had been completed. 50,000 servings of No. 1 instant soup cubes. The annual total order of 1.2 million copies will be completed by the end of the year. Orders were also placed for other fast food items, including fish lù, salted fish, pickles, pickles, kimchi, biscuits and candies, among others.
Various umbrella companies under the Ministry of Light Industry and the People's Committee on Agriculture: grain processing plants, seafood processing plants, and food factories have all expanded their scale and increased their personnel. 850 naturalized civilian employees are divided into two shifts and all vacations are cancelled. Production is carried out at a rate of 2 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The roads from Bopu to various food factories have been renovated and converted into high-grade cinder-hardened roads. Heavy ox carts and light purple electric carts raced on the road, their wheels rolling. The factory gate looks no different from factories in other industrial areas, except that cars come in and out from morning to night. However, when fast food with a large amount of spices is produced, people nearby can smell the strong aroma.
Food factories have many vehicles coming in and out every day to carry goods. Some even use the on-board refrigerated cabinets to get: 150kg basket of various vegetables: 50kg bag of brown rice, rice noodles, beans: 100kg bag of dried sweet potatoes and sweet potato powder: 50kg basket of fruits: 50 Cane sugar and salt per kilogram: 5 kilograms Spices per kilogram: 50 kilograms Box of salted and fresh fish: 5
The fish lù packed in liters ends with the rarest of foods: oil. Packed in wooden barrels or ceramic jars with a capacity of 5 liters. There are various contents inside: in addition to the common soybean oil and lard, there are also fish oil with a fishy smell and various vegetable oils for human consumption.
The floors and walls of the newly built factory building are all covered with ceramic tiles, and rows of glass windows are used for lighting and ventilation windows are equipped with multi-layer screens, ranging from ordinary roving to fine yarn that can be used for making clothes. Prevents even the tiniest flying insects from entering. Workers have to drain lime pools when entering and exiting the workshop, and their hands must be washed carefully when changing clothes. The workers wear white overalls, hoods, masks, and oilskin overshoes to process raw materials. Most raw materials are ground into powder, vegetables and fruits are processed into paste or dried products. Then according to the recipe, various raw materials are poured into the large pot for processing. Then add water to the mixing pot for stirring. The mixing pot is driven by a steam engine powered by a transmission shaft on the ceiling. The newly installed large mixing pot can stir 250 kilograms at a time.
Kilograms of raw materials.
The industrial port is temporarily unable to produce stainless steel, nor can it make pots due to cost and energy issues. Therefore, most of the processing equipment in food factories are made of tin-plated iron sheets, while a few small-sized processing equipment are made of copper, and some are made of glass or ceramics.
After stirring, the paste is steam heated to 100°C to ensure the food is fully cooked.
The paste is then poured into the mold, which is mounted on a rotating chain plate and pulled into a gas-heated continuous kiln for drying.
The biscuits that shrink during the drying process automatically fall out of the mold when the chain plate rotates and fall onto the large tinplate tray.
Since there are no rubber gloves, in addition to disinfecting their hands with disinfectant before entering the workshop, workers are not allowed to touch food and wrapping paper with their hands during packaging. All done with clamps.
The packaged relief rations are put into the sterilization room, heated to 120C using superheated dry steam from a special boiler, and then cooled to 40C. After sterilization and disinfection, the rations are packed into a standard 20-liter wooden box. The wooden box is lined with oiled paper coated with persimmon oil to ensure it is not water-tight. Then put a bag of lime into the box as a desiccant. The lime bag is printed in eye-catching black font: "Recyclable materials, pay attention to recycling!"
Not only lime bags, but also cartons and wooden boxes have similar warnings.
In addition to providing relief rations that can be consumed by individuals at any time, the food factory also produces relief rations that can be consumed by multiple people. The ingredients are exactly the same, but they are made into 2.5 kilogram-sized blocks. When used, smash it and add water to make a paste. Known as the "No. 1 on-site relief ration." This kind of ration is used when setting up refugee relief centers in disaster areas to recruit refugees.
In order to ensure the supply of vitamins and avoid beriberi and septicemia caused by a single lack of vitamins in the diet, the food factory will not only produce instant soup cubes, but also produce 15,000 kilograms of dehydrated vegetables and dried fruits. In addition, the grain processing plant must prepare 50,000 kilograms of brown rice to prepare meals at the transit camp. Brown rice is also processed: it is boiled into rice and then thoroughly dried. This way it doesn't require much fuel to cook porridge. In an emergency, you can also eat it directly. ! .
