Going again to the posts in regards to the issues we have been dosed with as youngsters.
I discovered this illustration beneath within the e book “The Wartime Kitchen and Backyard” by Jennifer Davies which is a e book printed by the BBC in 1993 to go together with a TV sequence of the identical identify.
That is precisely how I bear in mind the federal government issued bottles of Cod Liver Oil and Concentrated Orange Juice. Although I wasn’t born till 1955 – ten years after the warfare ended, these should have nonetheless been out there for youngsters. Rationing had solely simply completed, the NHS had began and the well being of kids was nonetheless necessary. I favored my third of a pint of milk at major college too.
This photograph can also be from the e book
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| Women milling rose hips in a machine specifically invented for the aim. September 1943 |
I used to be wanting by way of this e book whereas monitoring down a recipe for a frugal wartime Christmas Cake. (I can not bear in mind why) I knew I might seen one someplace and went by way of all my wartime home-front books earlier than discovering it .
It is a recipe utilizing carrot however no eggs……which may be a plan after the best way bird-flu is threatening the poultry trade this yr………. and likewise not a number of fruit, so presumably a bit plain.
Because it’s low-cost to make I will strive it out earlier than Christmas and share the recipe if it seems OK. Undecided if it retains properly, though as we’re not rationed a tot of brandy would assist that, I am certain there’s some left from earlier years Christmas cake making.
My normal Christmas cake recipe is a Mary Berry recipe from the times earlier than she was a British Icon. The complete recipe makes use of 1½ kilos of varied fruits and three eggs and may be very wealthy and scrumptious. If the wartime one is just too dry I will do a half dimension recipe later this yr. (It is on the Recipe web page – Victorian Christmas Cake).
Final yr I made a cake from Delia Smith’s Christmas e book referred to as Mild Glaze Christmas Cake which had all kinds of multi-coloured fruits – and it was much more costly and no higher than my normal, so I will not be bothering with that once more. I might purchased all of the fruit from The Grape Tree – whose fruit is all the time good high quality however now far more costly than elsewhere. Watching the spending this yr so it is again to worth model sultanas and trying out the most cost effective marzipan.
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