Introducing
Pentargon's Galley
DIRE WARNING.
safety first
NEVER leave a stove unattended
even for a second.
Use a buzzer timer
set for minutes
if you need to turn away
even for a second.
You can’t cream sugar with melted butter because melted butter dissolves the sugar.
Creaming butter and sugar together until it’s light and fluffy is a basic step in a lot of baking recipes.
When sugar is beaten with softened butter, it provides aeration, leavening, volume, a tender texture flavour, and so much more
Melted butter dissolves the sugar and changes the recipe entirely.
Creaming butter and sugar together until it’s light and fluffy is a basic step in a lot of baking recipes.
When sugar is beaten with softened butter, it provides aeration, leavening, volume, a tender texture flavour, and so much more
Melted butter dissolves the sugar and changes the recipe entirely.
If you think Pentargon's galley a shambles
you should see it when it is in full gallop
Of all the items in Pentargon's galley I'd never be without, number one is Rice Bran Oil
Another would be my Pressure Cookers followed by my Clam Pans and my Icelandic flat-iron griddle. One's gotta make pancakes and griddle cakes and toasties and steam-fried sausages and omelettes off-grid.
Next has to be my xPresso coffee percolator - plus hand-powered grinder, coffee beans, peppercorns, Demerara sugar.
I do like my morning coffee. Science did controlled experiments to gauge how fine a grind should be for a perfect brew. All my life I have followed the science but my choice of bean follows my nose. Someone somewhere told me the best coffee grows on the 4000meter line in equatorial mountain ranges. Unless a bag gives me that info it is filtered out of my shopping list. I like to grind in peppercorns with the beans and include fresh cardamom seeds picked from the pod as and when needed. Cardamom has special synergic properties in conjunction with real coffee and with black pepper promotes bowel efficiency, colon cleaning, gut biome and blood purification via the immune system. Pepper has anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties which fight infection. My immune system likes all the help it can get as I've carried Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for over forty years? Adding pepper to my morning coffee is, at worst, a harmless ritual and at best, a powerful tool in my immune armoury. As for the cardamom it keeps my bowels working, along with a high fibre diet. Everything in moderation especially moderation!
In late 2022, the boat had Parsley Boxes stored aboard. Ready-prepared dinners with a use-by in late 2023 which I got on special offer early in 2022. I am rather particular about my food ... and you better believe it. I used up all of the packs and was well impressed. Knowing that food prepared for microwave may be eaten cold, I tried some 'uncooked' and can say the quality was very high, better than any prepared meals I previously tried and way ahead of anything from supermarkets.
The Hawkins pressure cooker is normally used as a very fast cooker but it can work just as well as a slow cooker
Softening large potatoes (prior to baking them!)
takes about 10 mins with a tbsp of water
with a tsp of oil per potato.
The large parboiled potato is then baked
at Gas7 200ºC for 30mins,
Oil ensures a nice glaze on the emerging baked spud
and the fact that the skin is oiled going in
means the heat is concentrated on the skin to brown it.
Large jacket potatoes will cook fully in two hours
on the hob at the lowest gas setting!
Either method minimizes cabin condensation
and frees up galley slaves for other duties. QED
takes about 10 mins with a tbsp of water
with a tsp of oil per potato.
The large parboiled potato is then baked
at Gas7 200ºC for 30mins,
Oil ensures a nice glaze on the emerging baked spud
and the fact that the skin is oiled going in
means the heat is concentrated on the skin to brown it.
Large jacket potatoes will cook fully in two hours
on the hob at the lowest gas setting!
Either method minimizes cabin condensation
and frees up galley slaves for other duties. QED
victualing for a voyage
PENTARGON 60906:
Shaun Wall
This page is associated with "The Galley"
of MS Kenya Jacaranda
providing a full complement (18 crew)
with proper food for a voyage of five days
offshore to the limit of our licences
(60NM from land) and limit of weather F7
COLIN ALLEN
deals with purchasing,
storing and using provisions,
serving a maximum of three watches
of 5hr or 3hr shifts.
Victualing is an important skill
and one that is rarely taken seriously
At least one person
should be nominated victualler
for every 'voyage'. (Feb 2011)
Delicate items need replacement
almost daily in Summer
and at least weekly in the depths of Winter
milk, cream, bread, butter, Mayo, greens, kale, scallions, cabbage
White bread and white sugar are touchy subjects
and neither are found on Pentargon.
PENTARGON: ... provisions options ... 2Nov23 WIP
Any, some, or all of this list
may be found on Pentargon
most of the time
Sourdough bread
porridge oats,
Demerara sugar,
pure spring water,
ground ginger,
black pepper corns,
muesli,
leaf tea,
coffee beans,
cocoa powder,
tonic water,
Super Malt, Ginger Ale,
bottled ales,
grog,
wines,
Mayo,
Marmalade,
Marmite,
cheese,
pancake mix,
eggs,
spices,
Maldon Sea Salt,
mustard,
potatoes,
onions,
root veg,
cabbages,
soups,
dried marrowfats,
tinned peas,
mixed beans,
mung beans,
tinned milk
"Stokers is like seagulls; if they ain't sleepin' theyse squawkin', eatin' or shittin' ..."
"All the engineers were berthed in the after lower mess deck in Haida, and below our mess was the dry provisions store. At least once a day one of the supply ratings would head on down there to make up the provisions on the victualling list. These people used to come on down to the stoker's mess, and open the hatch into their store room. They normally used to hang the padlock on the grab handle on the after bulkhead just above the hatch. We discovered that if we switched locks with an identical one, the supply rating left with his stock and simply snapped the lock on the hatch. When we knew he was gone, we used our key to open our lock, went down and made up our own victualing list [before restoring the original lock!]
Everyone one else on board knew that for the price of a few tots one could attend one of these scran-ups as guests of the stokers, and nosh up on fried mushrooms, bully beef and beans. All of these ill-gotten gains were secreted in the vent trunking in the stoker's mess. I often wonder if one was to visit the old mess today could we still find some tins of food hidden there.
PURCHASING VICTUALING STORES
W I P 20110317
PENTARGON 60906:
Shaun Wall
This page is associated with "The Galley"
of MS Kenya Jacaranda
providing a full complement (18 crew)
with proper food for a voyage of five days
offshore to the limit of our licences
(60NM from land) and limit of weather F7
COLIN ALLEN
deals with purchasing,
storing and using provisions,
serving a maximum of three watches
of 5hr or 3hr shifts.
Victualing is an important skill
and one that is rarely taken seriously
At least one person
should be nominated victualler
for every 'voyage'. (Feb 2011)
Delicate items need replacement
almost daily in Summer
and at least weekly in the depths of Winter
milk, cream, bread, butter, Mayo, greens, kale, scallions, cabbage
White bread and white sugar are touchy subjects
and neither are found on Pentargon.
PENTARGON: ... provisions options ... 2Nov23 WIP
Any, some, or all of this list
may be found on Pentargon
most of the time
Sourdough bread
porridge oats,
Demerara sugar,
pure spring water,
ground ginger,
black pepper corns,
muesli,
leaf tea,
coffee beans,
cocoa powder,
tonic water,
Super Malt, Ginger Ale,
bottled ales,
grog,
wines,
Mayo,
Marmalade,
Marmite,
cheese,
pancake mix,
eggs,
spices,
Maldon Sea Salt,
mustard,
potatoes,
onions,
root veg,
cabbages,
soups,
dried marrowfats,
tinned peas,
mixed beans,
mung beans,
tinned milk
"Stokers is like seagulls; if they ain't sleepin' theyse squawkin', eatin' or shittin' ..."
"All the engineers were berthed in the after lower mess deck in Haida, and below our mess was the dry provisions store. At least once a day one of the supply ratings would head on down there to make up the provisions on the victualling list. These people used to come on down to the stoker's mess, and open the hatch into their store room. They normally used to hang the padlock on the grab handle on the after bulkhead just above the hatch. We discovered that if we switched locks with an identical one, the supply rating left with his stock and simply snapped the lock on the hatch. When we knew he was gone, we used our key to open our lock, went down and made up our own victualing list [before restoring the original lock!]
Everyone one else on board knew that for the price of a few tots one could attend one of these scran-ups as guests of the stokers, and nosh up on fried mushrooms, bully beef and beans. All of these ill-gotten gains were secreted in the vent trunking in the stoker's mess. I often wonder if one was to visit the old mess today could we still find some tins of food hidden there.
PURCHASING VICTUALING STORES
W I P 20110317
