ve day recipe - homework help please

[Deleted User]

hi there
i need an idea for a cheap and easy recipe that i can buy the ingredients for and make tomorrow

it is for my yr 4 son's homework

he has been asked to find and make a recipe that would have been made for a VE day party after the war

he has to bear in mind rationing and what effect that would have on what food was available.

i am not a great cook and would like to do this with him rather than for him

i am off to bed now but any ideas will be gladly looked at tomorrow

many thanks

snoozer

Have a look at Thriftlady,s wartime thread - she spent a month cooking as if the family was on rations.

Emm-in-a-pickle

I had a brilliant cookbook, picked it up at a car-boot sale a few years ago, Marguerite Patten`s `We`ll Eat Again`, full of wartime recipes, adverts from the period, etc., lent it to a neighbour whose kids were doing a school project, and never saw it again, by the time I tried to chase it up, they`d moved. I remember there was a lot of `salt cod` recipes in there though, that was cheap and plentiful at the time, apparently. I recall that there was lots of lard, suet, and folks doing their own herbs, so can I suggest a Fish Pie of some sort?

sammy_kaye18

You could perhaps make a sponge cake that doesn't use eggs in it at all as they were rationed in the war.

This is an eggless, butterless and milkless cake.

1 cup brown sugar
1 1/4 cups water
1 cup raisins
1/3 cup shortening
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 cups all-purpose flour
5 teaspoons baking powder
Directions

In a saucepan, combine brown sugar, water, raisins, shortening, nutmeg and cinnamon. Bring to a boil, and continue boiling for 3 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9 inch square pan. Sift together flour and baking powder.
In a large bowl, combine the raisin mixture with the flour mixture. Pour into prepared pan.
Bake for 45 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean.


If you google search wartime recipes there are a fair few that come up that he could use. x

thriftlady_2

snoozer wrote: »

Have a look at Thriftlady,s wartime thread - she spent a month cooking as if the family was on rations.

Only a fortnight -I missed pineapples too much!

Try some carrot cookies, the recip's on my thread. Or try and borrow a copy of The Victory Cookbook by Marguerite Patten which has recipes specifically for wartime celebrations.

Elisheba

Could you post the link for the Wartime thread please? Quite fancy the idea of making a war-style meals for VE day!

Butterfly_Brain

Try these sites
http://www.ukhomefront.co.uk/6.html
http://www.memorylanehf.oddquine.co.uk/food2.htm
http://cookit.e2bn.org/recipes/

thriftlady_2

If you google 'Thriftlady' it comes right up! Golly, how about that?:D

Thriftlady's Wartime Experiment

M.E.

Our school had a VE party in 1995. As a class my daughter made jam sandwiches with margarine, beef paste sandwiches and jelly. The sandwiches were cut into strips and arranged into "words" and "flags". She and her friends did "VICTORY" in jam sandwich strips.

Elisheba

thriftlady wrote: »

If you google 'Thriftlady' it comes right up! Golly, how about that?:D/QUOTE]

Thank you! I'm reading through it now.

[Deleted User]

thanks everyone for your ideas
we went for beef paste sandwiches with margarine and a golden syrup cake from one of the links

thank you all so much