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Thriftlady's wartime experiment
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thriftlady wrote: »Son has been eating black market food :rolleyes: ds2 has returned from tea with a friend. He has had scampi, calamari, banana splits and chocolate milkshake -surely his mother has obtained these on the black market ?:eek:
Thriftlady, what's a bananaNot seen one of those for ages
donnap wrote:Hi
What is snoek!!??
Donna
It's a type of fish.wisewoman wrote:Hi thriftlady! I have nominated this for post of the month.
You beat me to it! Was going to do that later. Will go and put my shilling on the thread.
Penny. x:rudolf: Sheep, pigs, hens and bees on our Teesdale smallholding :rudolf:1 -
thriftlady wrote: »Question does anyone know if tablet jellies were available during the war ?It doesn't matter if you are a glass half full or half empty sort of person. Keep it topped up! Cheers!1
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thriftlady wrote: »Question does anyone know if tablet jellies were available during the war ?
I think that they were available, there's a mention of 'cutting the block of jelly into squares' near the bottom of the page (under The School Party) in this link.
Thanks for starting the thread thriftlady.....it's fascinating reading all the posts.
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Snoek and tomato pie
I have not tried this. It's from Postwar Kitchen by Marguerite Patten (who else?)
Melt some fat, brown onions Add skinned, sliced tomatoes and cook till tender.
Add a tin of flaked snoek and a tsp of sugar, salt and pepper and cook till piping hot.
Serve with potatoes and a green veg.
You can use tuna or salmon instead of snoek
Anything would be better than snoek !
Sea fish was hard to come by during the war so the gov came up with a smart wheeze of bringing snoek from South Africa and blasting us with propaganda about how wonderful and good for us it was. We still wouldn't eat it and I believe the vast stocks left on the governments hands after the war were used for dog food. Unsure how many dogs could stomach it either. It is truly the most disgusting taste known to man.
Snoek is still considered a delicacy in South Africa but I have no idea why. Might be like frogs legs - no accounting for taste :eek:.....................I'm smiling because I have no idea what's going on ...:)
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Originally Posted by thriftlady
Son has been eating black market food :rolleyes: ds2 has returned from tea with a friend. He has had scampi, calamari, banana splits and chocolate milkshake -surely his mother has obtained these on the black market ?:eek:
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I told you not to forget all the goodies available on the black market
Can he get any nylons? The gravy powder is running out :rotfl:.....................I'm smiling because I have no idea what's going on ...:)
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Oh wow, I am loving this thread- another poster directed me to it as I am in the middle of planning my retro 1950's post war themed wedding (so I can have an excuse to do it on the cheap!)
Think I may have to include ration cards somewhere now!
If anyone has any ideas of "Must have" rationing wedding foods I would love to hear them- and if you don't want to clog up this thread- my thread is
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=474408
Thanks again for the thread and good luck with it!
I shall continue reading with interest.1 -
Suet didn't come in little boxes it came in a lump from the butchers and had to be chopped up by hand. Dried fruit (if you could get it as it was often unavailable) had to be washed and picked over taking all the stalks etc off the currants/sultanas/raisins which came seperately not in the same pack. I remember my mum doing this before making the Christmas puddings. And candied peel came in lumps of individual candied fruits which had to be chopped finely. The smell from the chopped peel was wonderful even though I didn't like to eat it as it was a lot stonger flavour than whats in todays mixed fruit. We had National Dried Milk for babys and this was still available from the NHS Clinics when my eldest was a baby in early 60's. We also had concentrated orange juice which we could buy cheaply and this was introduced during the war years I think. When I started school in 1949 we had 1/3 pint of milk every morning and in the winter the milk would freeze as it was left outside the school by the milk man and had to be warmed by the fire to thaw it out a bit before we could get a straw in the bottle. I love the frozen cream at the top that pushed the (cardboard) top off the bottle because the milk expanded when frozen. I can also remember when aged about 9/10 I used to stand on a chair and heat the milk for the teachers coffee on a small gas ring which I had to light myself. Carefully pouring it into the cups (2) and taking them to the teachers desks. It was a small village school with 2 rooms 1 for infants with a open coal fire and big fireguard and the other for juniors with a bit black boiler that took coal. Outside toilets too. We never did have a flush loo while I lived it that house. The loo was in a little shed at the end of a path flanked either side by a hedge and was a bucket and chuck it. Every Sunday my Dad had to take the pan to the bottom of the garden and bury the contents. I can also remember that at home we had no electric until I was about 9 and before that I used to have a small Alladin oil lamp alight beside my bed all night. We may have lived in the middle of the country (Essex) but I think life was as risky there without the bombs as it was in the middel of London.lol. BTW we were actually bombed out 3 times because the planes jettisoned whatever they had left on board on their way back to Germany and had to fly over our house to get there.Mortgage and Debt free but need to increase savings pot. :think:1
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thriftlady wrote: »
My standard special pud is Chocolate fudge pudding and since all the ingredients were available during the war that's what we'll have. No cream though
Thriftlady - Not the same I know but could you try "Mock Cream"?
Mock Cream (victory cookbook)
1oz butter
1oz sugar
1 tbspn dried milk
1 tbspn milk
Cream the butter and sugar. beat in the milk powder and liquid milk.
I tried the carrot cookie recipe today but following the original instructions of 6 tbspns sr flour found it made only a small amount of cookies (12 very, very small or 6 reasonable) Should I have used 6oz sr flour? i will try again as they were yummy. i put in a tspn orange juice as the flavouring.Our days are happier when we give people a bit of our heart rather than a piece of our mind.
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Thanks Pink and Maryb for the jelly info, I'll add it to my shopping list for next week. I might make a mandarin orange jelly (I have two tins that I've been hoarding since before the war;) ). I must look up the reference in Nella Last's book Mary -I'd forgotten that.
Ches, what wonderful memories :T My butcher can still get you suet in a lump, and around Christmas (when he must make a fortune the prices he charges ) he sells it grated up in big bags for the freezer -for your mincemeat of course;)
I think I got free orange juice when I was a baby in 1965, and we definitely had free milk at school in little third of a pint bottles with a foil top -until Margaret Thatcher put a stop to it :rolleyes:
Catznine thanks for the recipe:) , I've been looking at mock cream recipes and I'm not really tempted tbh -they don't do it for me really. It's a good thing though because I eat too much cream with my puds, and I'm less likely to have seconds if there's no cream.
Night all, and don't forget the blackout1
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