Item 04: M.C. Evans war diary, 4 November 1916-16 June 1917 - Page 170
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[Page 170]
28th
I think I shall have to put down "situation unchanged" as in the official reports as nothing seems to happen much, we live in a world of trivialities.
Our positions have chrystalised into my friend being stable boy & myself cook at which I am beginning to fancy myself not a little. I must spend quite 10 minutes of or more every day working out the menu for the day as it is quite a business to devise different dishes from much the same materials. Also we are somewhat lacking in the matter of cooking utensils as they consist of one mess tin & 4 billies (ex fruit tins).
I went so far as to try my hand at pastry the other day (I have rigged up an indifferent oven from a big biscuit tin.
I decided to make a jam tart. I mixed flour & water & used the handle of a mallet for a rolling pin & it looked fine. But the flour