Wartime Farm Thurs 6/9/2012 8pm BBC2

Tiglath

I've just watched the first episode and have it set to series record. I'd've preferred more on the livestock, crops, food and household stuff - not really interested in the auxiliary activities. I love bacon-wrapped banana chunks - I used to whizz up a sweet marinade of whatever's available (jam etc), and serve over boiled rice. I'd completely forgotten that I used to do that

Mum's staying next weekend so we'll definitely watch the episodes again. She was born in the early thirties - her father was a gardener and her grandfather was a pig farmer, so I'm sure a lot of it will be familiar to her. I recall a radio like that from my childhood in the 1970s, with a needle that moved to match a city, and we still had lino (dark green) on the kitchen floor then.

EssexGirl

Justamum wrote: »

The bananas on the banana tatin which someone made on Great British Bake Off didn't look particularly appetising either, but apparently it tastes really nice! They go a funny colour when they are cooked don't they?

Yes they do. But they are lovely!

RAS

Got to watch it on i-player.

Both parents were too young for military service although several brothers and sisters fought in the war and the families have always talked about the experience of living through the blitz and of being evacuated.

Both parents had the good fortune to live in the country; one being evacuated and the other relocated for the duration. Even living in the household of a low income estate worker with no electricity and running water only in the kitchen was better than being in London based on their comments. There was food from the garden, fruit to be foraged from the heath and hedges, rabbits and pigeon to be caught and stuff to barter. And folk had the knowledge and equipment necessary to make use of any gluts that came their way.

Kitchen_Garden

I'm gutted..no more Wartime Farm:( Anyone know if the team are doing another "....Farm" series?

I think they should go further back in time again. They went from 1600's (Tales from the Green Valley) straight to Victorian Farm...plenty of era's in between that

SailorSam

Watching that makes you realise just how well off we all are today Can you imagine if you had to make do with some of the foods or clothes that were available then. And to think it's within living memory of lots of people.

Uniscots97

I loved the series and some of the stuff (growing things, make do and mend and scouring for fire wood etc) wasn't too alien to me. I saw my parents do some of it in the 80's during the miners strike and my Dad (and countless others) lost his job in the industry he was in.

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That series brought back so many memories for me, I was born during the war and spent my early years on a smallholding. Our eggs mostly went to the egg marketing board. We had two pigs, one went to the butcher one was shared out between the family. So much of what they were doing happened for a while after the war finished, there was still rationing. Building repairs took ages to get done there were so many houses that either needed repair or had to be demolished. It was a while before local councils began building and then we saw the construction of prefabs.

My grandmother queued for ages to get me an orange from the green grocers, she was disgusted when I refused to eat it!!

Justamum

SailorSam wrote: »

Watching that makes you realise just how well off we all are today Can you imagine if you had to make do with some of the foods or clothes that were available then. And to think it's within living memory of lots of people.

That potato pie thing looked pretty awful! Pastry with jam and mashed potato?! I'd rather just eat the mashed potato, then follow it up with jam tarts.

oldtractor

the booklet form the OU about the series is good.

SailorSam

Justamum wrote: »

That potato pie thing looked pretty awful! Pastry with jam and mashed potato?! I'd rather just eat the mashed potato, then follow it up with jam tarts.

The worst thing i saw that they cooked was a loaf. A couple of weeks ago they had someone who had grown up during the war in Germany and they were even worse off than us. They baked a black loaf that was made mostly out of grass.