title: Brinestain and Biscuit: Recipes and Rules for Royal Navy Cooks
author: Edward Hampshire
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zlib_text: For all the gentlemen I have known.
  
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  > MEALS ALOFT
  
  >  **Airway Catering**
  
  >  **SUMPTUOUS REPASTS**
  
  > By GARNSEY POTTS
  
  > Before starting an aerial trip from London to Paris in one of the small
  > pioneer machines of 1919, passengers often provided themselves with
  > sandwiches. More often than not the sandwiches remained uneaten. The cabins
  > of the two-seater machines were mere boxes, the engine roared only a few
  > feet away, and the whole procedure of air travel in those days was such a
  > breathtaking, exciting adventure that few developed appetites in mid-air.
  
  > With the advent of the three-engine air liner of the Hercules and Argosy
  > types it became possible, for the first time, for a steward to serve
  > refreshments from a small buffet at the rear of the saloon.
  
  > Six-course meals aloft. In the British air liners regularly flying between
  > London and the Continent more than 500 people a week now enjoy, while up in
  > the air, five and six-course meals which are equal in 