War Time Recipes

Subject: War Time Recipes Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:21 pm

My goodness, we don't know how good we have it today. Have a read through some of these.

War Time Cooking
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Subject: Re: War Time Recipes Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:31 pm

Subbing in sour milk for cheese... =oP

Subject: Re: War Time Recipes Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:35 pm

I found the war cake recipe I'd heard about. It doesn't use eggs, milk or butter. All ingredients that would have been rationed. It sounds quite good. Better than some of the stuff on that other site! Yikes!

War Cake
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Subject: Re: War Time Recipes Wed Jan 30, 2008 2:18 am

I've got a box filled with recipe books and pamphlets, from my great-grandmother's handwritten notebook started in 1904 to my grandmother's Ministry of Food monthly mail-out pamphlets all through the war, as well as one-offs published by manufacturers like The Stork Margarine Rationing Cook Book!

They are fascinating, and not all the recipes are awful. We still make a few things from them; they're economical and healthy ;-)

I also collect published diaries of, and books about, women living in wartime Britain - the Home Front, as it was called. When I feel low and dispirited, I dip in and think of trying to run a household on rationing, with no car, no central heating, bomb damage, the blackout, the wardens comign round and checking your bins and fining someone five pounds (!) for throwing out a bread-crust... Wartime Britain was apparently the most restrictive society of the 20th century, I've read, as civilians had more government interference in their daily lives than even Stalinist Russia or Communist East Germany did.
And through all of that, your menfolk overseas fighting or in prison camps, or missing, or dead; your womenfolk sent anywhere the govermnent needed them if they had no dependents...

It usually puts things in perspective quite well...

laura

Subject: Re: War Time Recipes Wed Jan 30, 2008 9:44 am

Wow! Thats a great bit of history you've got there Laura.
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