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That's the title of the book which I purchased from the local bookshop last week.
It's full of 100% reproduction, colour scans of old posters and government recipes from the British home front of the Second World War. It's 160 pages of facts, food and fascination.
Chapters include "Dried Eggs", "One Pot Meals", "Making the Most of Meat", "What's Left in the Larder", "Fruit Bottling", "Cheese", "Cakes & Pies", "Puddings", "Tea", "Potatoes", there's a chapter called "How to Fry", and countless other things, including government leaflets about vitamins and how to ration sugar, what pregnant women should eat and a whole heap of other stuff.
It's fascinating reading. If anyone wants a few pages, I'd be happy to scan and share.
The foreword has a few interesting passages...
"...Dried eggs were an invaluable invention of the food technologists, but they were particularly unpalatable. However much the advisers to the Ministry of Food tried to convince the public that a tablespoon of egg powder mixed with two tablespoons of water was just as good as a fresh egg..."
On what was not rationed...
"...Foods that were not rationed included offal, chicken, rabbit and game. Fish was not officially rationed, but was hard to come by and often expensive. Hosemeat was available; later on, corned beef, and spam..."
It's full of 100% reproduction, colour scans of old posters and government recipes from the British home front of the Second World War. It's 160 pages of facts, food and fascination.
Chapters include "Dried Eggs", "One Pot Meals", "Making the Most of Meat", "What's Left in the Larder", "Fruit Bottling", "Cheese", "Cakes & Pies", "Puddings", "Tea", "Potatoes", there's a chapter called "How to Fry", and countless other things, including government leaflets about vitamins and how to ration sugar, what pregnant women should eat and a whole heap of other stuff.
It's fascinating reading. If anyone wants a few pages, I'd be happy to scan and share.
The foreword has a few interesting passages...
"...Dried eggs were an invaluable invention of the food technologists, but they were particularly unpalatable. However much the advisers to the Ministry of Food tried to convince the public that a tablespoon of egg powder mixed with two tablespoons of water was just as good as a fresh egg..."
On what was not rationed...
"...Foods that were not rationed included offal, chicken, rabbit and game. Fish was not officially rationed, but was hard to come by and often expensive. Hosemeat was available; later on, corned beef, and spam..."
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