Topic: Wartime Recipes

[Linda Tal]

My daughter has come home today and as part of her History homework, she has to find some recipes that were used during wartime rationing.

I wonder if any of you out there have any good recipes passed on down the generations that you could share with us?

Linda x

[sarah]

i dont (sure loads of others will) but i remember learning in school that if you were really poor the man of the house would get a boiled egg for breakfast and the kids would get the water the egg was boiled in as 'egg soup'. i have no idea if that is true but it has always stuck with me.

[Doris_Pinks]

Linda, we went to a WW2 party and had to take a dish. (we went as evacuees!) I goggled WW2 recipes and came up with quite a few, some of them sounded yuck :P. (cannot remember what I made eventually)
My Mum remembers having condensed milk sandwiches sprinkled with brown sugar if thats any help! :o :o

[Jeannine]

Hi Linda, probably the most famous was Lord Whooton Pie. Plus below.

Pathfinder Pudding
Turnip Top Salad
Mock Apricot Flan with Mock Cream
Poor Knights Fritters
Hard Time Omelette
Recipe for Hardboil dried eggs
Egg Champ
Mock Goose
Dripping Cake
Carrot Cookies
Parsley Honey
Carrot and Orange marmalade
Turnip Jam
Rabbit Surprise
Home made Chocolate
Vegetable Mince
Sheeps Head Roll
Black pudding hotpot

Plus tons more. I have recipes for all of the above. XX Jeannine

[Palustris]

I rarely comment on the spelling on any site since I know how easy it is to post a typing error, but I really must put the record straight here, it was Woolton pie not Whooton, sorry.

[Jeannine]

Sorry about the error, you will notice many mistakes in my posts. I really can spell, I just can't type !!  What a difference an L makes, poor man would turn in his grave XX Jeannine

[tim]

One old one & a nice thought?

[Jeannine]

Tim, I shall give the Oslo recipe to our school cook tomorrow !! XX Jeannine

[Jeannine]

Linda would you like the loan of wartime  cook book ,it has the allowances etc in too  XX Jeannine

[tim]

Just pass me the Sheep's Head Roll!!

[Linda Tal]

Thanks for those replies.  Hayley has just come and read them and she's now got some ideas.  

Jeannine - That's very kind of you to lend the book, I'll make sure she looks after it.

Tim - Thanks for the cuttings, Hayley actually learnt today about people who were fined for wasting bread!

We might have to try some of these recipes out for ourselves and see what they're like  :)

Linda x

[Jeannine]

Hi Linda I will pop the book in the mail tomorrow,return it when you are done..no rush.I have your addy XX Jeannine

[tilts]

We have done the WWII with our grandson and are now on to the Romans, but i have recentlyy bought a cookbook for a frien and isit is Margaret Patterns war time recipes, which is really great, why not take a look at a local bookshop, ebay or even your local library, it is well worth looking at.

[Linda Tal]

Thanks Jeannine, I'll look out for it.

Linda x

[Jeannine]

That is the book I am sending,  The Victory Cookbook,food and facts from 1940-1954,reprint of We'll Eat Again XX Jeannine