WW2 family night info needed

Queen_of_NO_MATTER_WHAT

Caterina wrote: »

You might be interested in this exhibition (in London)

http://food.iwm.org.uk/

I hope to go and see it when it opens. If any other OSer want to go as well, please let us meet and go together! We could make it another London meet!

Thank you. This looks really interesting, I might well take myself along when I'm next down in the big smoke

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As previous posters have said Ludo,Snakes and Ladders,cards ,domino's word games and best of all singsongs where everyone had to do a turn either singing or telling a story or reciting a poem.my late Dad was a Rabbie Burns fan and as children we had to learn reams of Rabbie's poems and recite them in the dialect as well.I have a very strong memory of my late Mum sing to us children 'When the lights go on again all over the world' , and 'Keep the home fires burning' and 'Just a song at Twilight ' The last wo were from her childhood during WW1.When my DDs were little I remember singing the last one to my then three year-old DD and her saying to me 'Don't sing that song Mum, it's so sad it makes me cry'She had never heard it before but it really upset her.Shivering in the shelter with jumpers on over your flanelette pajamas and your feet tucked up under the old eiderdown with my Mum and my two older brothers praying for the 'all clear' siren to go is another memory I have from when I was very tiny.My Mum would then make us all cocoa and toast and say 'well we've beaten them for another night thank God' She was bombed out twice, and the second time stood in the middle of the street apparently shaking her fist at the departing aeroplanes yelling 'You didn't get me that time either' our Mums were tough ladies who didn't let anything get them down as long as their kids were safe.Lots of memories that I am glad my children and grandchildren never had to live through but some of them were good and quite funny at times .My middle brother used to wear the 'gazunder' on his head like a helmet ,as it was a fancy one with roses around it and made of china, I don't think it would have protected him much

luxor4t

JackieO wrote: »

.... our Mums were tough ladies who didn't let anything get them down as long as their kids were safe......

Jackie, you've reminded me of my mum's story about my Nana in their shelter.....
It was a quiet, calm evening but the siren had sounded and so the neighbours were all in their shelters, anxiously waiting.
Mum (born 1933) was in the shelter's bunk bed one evening but her mother (my nana)was sitting in the doorway, watching the clear sky & quietly worrying about her husband (my grandad) who was on duty with the Home Guard at anti-aircraft gunnery.
Suddenly she screamed....and rushed out of the doorway, into the garden, shuddering withe terror. The nearest neighbours hurdled the fences and came running. With their encouragement she grew calmer, stammered out a few words.
Grimly, a spade was fetched and the frog that had leapt onto her lap was removed. The shelter had always been a bit damp.....
Nana could deal with bombs, but had a lifelong dread of reptiles!

Ches

Get everyone playing home made musical instruments. My dad used to play the spoons and comb and paper. We kids used to make zylaphones (sp) with jam jars filled with different levels of water so that when you tapped them with a small stick they gave out different musical notes. Trumpets made with cones of cardboard could be another.

angela30

Today on Market Kitchen they were tasting an egg-less sponge cake made with marg with jam in the middle which would be great.does anyone have a recipe they can share with me?


hello im on a night shift at the mo, but i will post a recipe for a eggless sponge cake tomorrow. do u wont a ww2 eggless sponge cake, or just a eggless cake?

hope you have fun at your ww2 night..

kippers

angela30 wrote: »

Today on Market Kitchen they were tasting an egg-less sponge cake made with marg with jam in the middle which would be great.does anyone have a recipe they can share with me?

hope you have fun at your ww2 night..

Thats the exact recipe i was looking for, they must have repeated the programme today

angela30

i dont know if this is any help but i have two rep's for you..
my nan used to make loads of them and had gave me the rep for them.
they are abit hit and miss some times they come out really nice other time you could hold a door open with it lol.. but ive never been a great baker anyway.b
but have a go and see how they come out.

CHOCOLATE CAKE (EGG-LESS) ww2 rep from nan
This is for a 9inch cake tin
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Mix togetter dry ingredients
3 oz. cake flour 2 tsp. baking soda 1 tsp. salt 2 oz. sugar
1/2 c. cocoa
Than add those ingredients to the dry :
1 tablespoons vinegar
2 tsp. vanilla
2/3 cup oil
Pour 2 cups water or milk over all, cream togetter with a wooden spoon.
Bake at 350°F for 40 minutes or until cake tests done.

NO EGG CHOCOLATE CAKE friend had given me
3 oz. flour, 2 oz. sugar 6 tbsp. cocoa 2 tsp. baking soda 1 tsp. salt
3/4 oz. oil 2 oz. cold water 2 tsp. vanilla a tbsp. vinegar
Mix ingredients in order and mix well. Bake at 350 degrees in 9x13 greased and floured pan 30-40 minutes. Frost with your favorite frosting

hope you have fun what ever happenes

julieq

I inherited some of my parents books from the war period (one of which was something like "The wonder world of things to make or do") and used to read them a lot as a child. They're full of games and things like that and I'd be astonished if there weren't copies available at car boots, bric a brac shops and so on.

slig

This sounds like a really fun idea, I hope it goes well. I think it's really good to teach children about history and to show them there's more to life than tv and computers. I would've loved doing that when i was little (in fact I'd love it now!), I remember dressing up as an evacuee for the 50th (?) anniversary of D-day. Are you going to dress up for your evening? How old are your daughters? They might enjoy finding out what people wore during the war and then finding an outfit to wear.

The IWM exhibition looks interesting, I think I'm going to go, and then try out some wartime recipes in the evening.

kippers

slig wrote: »

This sounds like a really fun idea, I hope it goes well. I think it's really good to teach children about history and to show them there's more to life than tv and computers. I would've loved doing that when i was little (in fact I'd love it now!), I remember dressing up as an evacuee for the 50th (?) anniversary of D-day. Are you going to dress up for your evening? How old are your daughters? They might enjoy finding out what people wore during the war and then finding an outfit to wear.

The IWM exhibition looks interesting, I think I'm going to go, and then try out some wartime recipes in the evening.

My DD's are 10 and nearly 12. They are looking forward to our WW2 night. My DD2 will be learning about WW2 at school this year. I never thought of dressing up, thank you.