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68e308c2-3289-48ea-affe-1c8dfbe1b3f4

Title:

Baking in the Galley - Bill McGee, Commissaryman 3rd Class, 1957-1959

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Bill McGee: I used to bake also...We'd get a break in our dutiesThere'd be eight of us who were cooks and bakers.If we weren't cooking we would be baking in the evening We'd have to bake everything that we ate of course Bread-we ran out of bread a couple of weeks after we got underway to go overseas. So we'd have to make bread every night-that was about 100 loaves of bread every night. We'd work from 7 o'clock in the evening till around 7 o'clock the next morning, just putting out breads and pies and cakes and muffins and doughnuts. We'd start breakfast for the crew and let the regular cooks sleep in a little while longer if they had a chance to. We had to work with just about the bare essentials. The equipment aboard ship was ah something to be desired. I remember one time that the Hobart man was here and And we swore that the mixing machine in the galley was a Hobart And he said he'd been with the company for—I don't know, 25 years—And he never saw a mixing machine like that. So we started started chipping away some paint about 6 or 8 layers of paint, and sure enough, it was a Hobart.He couldn't get over it. We'd have a lot of breakdowns with that machine,Because of the pressure that was put on the ah-mixer itself. When that machine broke down we'd have to mix our bread in the sink by hand. And that would take an awful long time, because we used hundreds of pounds of flour, water, and all kinds of ingredients It was very tough to make bread by hand. It was really fascinating—I really enjoyed it. It was a lot of hard work at the time. Making 100 loaves of bread from scratch with a beat up mixing machine. It was probably made in 1938 or so...But...we had a lot of fun and...I was teamed up with a lotta real nice guys and we used to have a lot of fun

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Public domain

Keywords:

USS CASSIN YOUNG , Oral history , Bill McGee

Resource Type:

Audio

NPS Units:

Boston National Historical Park, Code: BOST

Locations:

Boston National Historical Park, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Latitude: 42.3734016418457, Longitude: -71.0557022094727

Create Date:

Served 1957-1959

Access Constraints:

Public Can View

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Organization: Boston National Historical Park

Time Submitted:

Thursday, March 25, 2021 10:24:57 AM

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Thursday, March 25, 2021 10:24:57 AM

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Bill_McGee-LIFE-GalleyBaking.mp3

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mp3

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1.5 MB

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Historic

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Album - 4 Photos
Oral Histories - The Galley - USS CASSIN YOUNG (DD793)

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