Thriftlady's wartime experiment

Little_Miss_Saver

Just wanted to say great thread, I've particulary enjoyed reading peoples "memories". My mum, dad & nan have some funny and facinating stories,

Will continue to read with interest

LMS xx

Errata

I dare someone to post a recipe for snoek .

sairy2005

Camp coffee was coffee and chicory mixed and had sugar added. It is lovely. Makes the best coffee and walnut cake imaginable. I still buy it if I see it

sairy2005

My Dad joined up on September 1st 1939 (there was no subscription until later) and he and my mum were married on Boxing Day (he was 24 and she was 20). I still have her wedding dress, veil and headdress although it has been worn by other members of the family after clothes rationing came in and a wedding dress took too many coupons

sairy2005

I mean concription dont I. DOH

catewithers

I love this thread. Thank you so much Thriftlady for starting it. I'm fascinated by personal history and reading all the stories from others' family members is brilliant. Going to try the spice cake recipe too!

Chipps

Errata wrote: »

I dare someone to post a recipe for snoek .

Can't manage that one, but got recipes for fried or stewed whalemeat :eek: or even whalemeat with beer:eek: :beer: :eek:

...... first catch your whale??????

There are some things about the ration diet which are better left in the past!

Errata

Snoek was mostly left in the pigswill bin

thriftlady_2

SnowyOwl wrote: »

Hi all

I haven't read through the whole thread yet (sorry, I am embarrassed and I WILL read it soon!), but it did occur to me that in terms of food and consumption evolvement then perhaps there are countries around the world which have a normal diet similar to that maintained in the UK during the war. Take a look at this thread, which sparked this thought: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=479417. It is so interesting to see what families elsewhere eat. We don't know how lucky we are - but then our rates for heart attacks, strokes and so on a so forth aren't exactly reflective of a healthy society. Have we really evolved? Are so called developing countries actually eating more healthy than us?

I work in a supermarket and the amount of processed food for main meals, and the amount of snacks, cakes, biscuits and fizzy drinks which goes through the checkout per customer sometimes makes my chin drop!

Interesting point Snowy, I actually have the book that sparked this thread -The Hungry Planet and it is absolutely fascinating. But, I often wonder exactly how accurate a reflection of a country's foodways it is. If they had photographed my shopping for a week it would look very different from the British family featured in the book( even before rationing hit us)


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

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:

Ds1 is still hungry and is eating crackers and jam. I think I should have served bread with my macaroni cheese. He is nearly 12 and I think he's going through a growth spurt.

Tomorrow's plans OH's birthday and he has the day off. We're going to a very nice pub for lunch which specialises in local, seasonal food. They do the most delicious faggots. Perfect wartime nosh -I shall pretend I'm in a British restaurant.

For tea, as it's a special occasion we're having salmon (not widely available then, but it might have been possible to come by a wild salmon, anyway it needs eating up). I thought I'd brush it with honey and mustard and bake it, not sure it would have been eaten like that then, but the ingredients would have been available.

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

Question does anyone know if tablet jellies were available during the war ?

DonnaP

Hi

What is snoek!!??

Donna