I am looking for some 1940s/50s recipes focusing on local foods and rations. Recommendations for websites, WWII books or modern reprints, or blogs with experimental reenactments would be welcomed.
A few I've found so far are
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3171348.stm
Cheese Soup
Woolton Pie
Sponge cake without eggs
Vegetable sandwiches
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3162944.stm
Information about food situation
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2017257.stm
Medical uses of food
(I'm also looking for info from that era for rebuilding things, mending, and refashioning clothing and other strategies of the SSish sort, and started a topic in the But What Can I do? forum for those topics. So if you run across anything where a website has both sorts of info, that would be wonderful too.)
1940s/50s Recipes for Rations and Local foods
Can I suggest 'Eating for Victory'? This is a fascinating book that is made up of reproductions of official second world war instruction leaflets...here is the link http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eating-Victory- ... 698&sr=8-2
There is also a companion book 'Make Do And Mend' by the same author. My husband bought me both books for Christmas as I have an interest in the Home front and I can thoroughly recommend them.
Donna
There is also a companion book 'Make Do And Mend' by the same author. My husband bought me both books for Christmas as I have an interest in the Home front and I can thoroughly recommend them.
Donna
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A bit o' work and a bit o' fun;
Give us all in the struggle and sputter
Our daily bread and a bit o' butter.
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A bit o' work and a bit o' fun;
Give us all in the struggle and sputter
Our daily bread and a bit o' butter.
From an inn in Lancaster, England
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Ooh, yes, I have those too. They're really interesting.
They're not weeds - that's a habitat for wildlife, don't you know?
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Cooker Illustrated and Household Management edited by Elizabeth Craig. No year on it sorry - but it does have a section on "Entertaining without a maid"! 
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I've got "cooking on a Ration or, Food is still fun" by Marjorie Mills, US, 1943, The Riversiode Press.
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