Thriftlady's wartime experiment

Penelope_Penguin

thriftlady wrote: »

Penelope Penguin You can indeed be my Land Girl, excellent idea :T

You'll be glad to know I'm taking my responsibilities seriously. I thought I had a copy of the *Wartime Kitchen and Garden* but I think I was mistaken (I have the Victorian Kitchen garden book). So I've bought one from a new fangled auction house Should arrive by the end of the week.

As an aside, DH's grandfather lived close to Chilton Foliat where the series were made. He was a clockmaker, and tended the timepieces at the house. He *aquired* wild meat to supplement his family's ration from the estate, and around.

Penny. x

meanmarie

I can still smell the 'apply' smell in the loft where the apples were stored, it seemed to last for years after my father's cousins who lived here stopped keeping them.

Sproggi, you have to tape your father's memories...I have been trying to do a family tree and wish that I had taped some of the information held in the memory of people who are now dead....the same will be true in the not too distant future of people who were adults during the war and these are the kind of things that should not be forgotten.

Thriftlady, your pie looks wonderful, will try it whenever my life returns to what I consider normal. I think that if one wanted to make it without a loose bottomed tin that 2 long strips of tinfoil, folded double and laid into tin crossways, with the ends sticking up above the pie might do the trick.
Keep it up, I am really getting into this

Marie

thriftlady_2

meanmarie wrote: »

I think that if one wanted to make it without a loose bottomed tin that 2 long strips of tinfoil, folded double and laid into tin crossways, with the ends sticking up above the pie might do the trick.
Keep it up, I am really getting into this

Marie

Ooh good idea Hey, really good news about the apples, thanks Sproggi and Meanmarie.

Topher the mintoes recipe looks like one I'm going to have to try :T

sproggi

meanmarie wrote: »

Sproggi, you have to tape your father's memories...I have been trying to do a family tree and wish that I had taped some of the information held in the memory of people who are now dead....the same will be true in the not too distant future of people who were adults during the war and these are the kind of things that should not be forgotten.

Marie

I have been doing my family tree for a few years now and have a mountain of notes from conversations with my nan about the war years (but not very much about the food:rolleyes: ) Sadley nan passed away last year, but I have a very tattered copy of her wedding photo from 1946 showing the bottom layer of her cake which was a very small fruit cake covered in iced card and the dresses worn by herself and her bridesmaids which she made herself out of net curtains and some parachute silk that grandad managed to 'aquire':D .
If I ever manage to get my scanner working properly, I will post it up.

Sproggi

sproggi

Should have added:

The top 2 layers of nans cake were just cardboard, no icing, no cake, just card, which is why they were taken off for photo:rotfl:

Sproggi

thriftlady_2

Into week 2 now.

This was what we ate for our evening meals last week
Week 1

Monday Leftover roast pork in gravy, potatoes and veg
Raspberries and top of the milk

Tuesday Pork rissoles, potatoes and salad
Duke pudding

Wednesday Macaroni cheese with veg and bacon in.
Strawberries

Thursday (OH's birthday) Salmon, potatoes, veg
Chocolate fudge pudding

Friday Vegetable curry and rice
Leftover chocolate fudge pudding

Saturday Raised pork pie, potatoes and salad
Rhubarb and orange jelly

Sunday Pigeon casserole, potatoes and veg
Rhubarb and strawberry cobbler and custard

Menu for today
Breakfast -little american style pancakes and golden syrup, apples

Lunch for kids -cheese sandwiches, tomatoes, syrup laof, apples
Lunch for me -beetroot soup, bread, apple

Tea - Cheese and vegetable pie (topped with mash)
leftover cobbler


Not sure I shall be cycling to the shops today, it is very wet here -we'll see.

Current weight -13st 10lb

daisyroots_2

Written in September 1944, this letter came up when I searched for "honey" which has been discussed on this thread recently. As you see, my Dad is withholding some honey and other goodies sent by her parents, in the hope of luring her (and me) back to London. Manipulative or what ? My Ma is Billie, and Paul is her younger sister Pauline (15), who came up to Leicester for the summer.


Sweetheart-all-my-own. Today it has been raining like stink (it is Saturday) and - no buzz-bombs! I think that we've had the last, or at any rate as near as dammit. With Arras fallen and Lille due to fall, the disgusting Pas de Calais must soon be overrun. So make your preparations to return my darling - nothing hasty, but start thinking in terms of coming back to He Who Waits. I sound like a spider, don't I?

I love you all over, and will never allow you to doubt it as long as you live. But you are a lousy correspondent - your letters are charming but rare. I want you badder and badder as the unBillied nights drag by in empty processions and am rapidly approaching the Billie or bust attitude that ends in a raincoated figure by your bedside at 8.30 of a Saturday morning.

I want, in the intervals between lots of languid, luscious and leisurely love-making, to talk it over with you and to take some of the heavier stuff back with me. Can I stay over Saturday night next week? And shall I arrive by the same train? Tell me as soon as you can, there's a dear, sweet love. I realise now that many opportunities for kissing, fondling and loving you were allowed to slip by. Mind you - a good many were taken! But there was room, I admit freely, to squeeze some more in. Just let me get at you, that's all.

As a first step in the "get Ready to Return" movement, I shall retain here your honey and salad cream and parcel of nuts and raisins. Your folkses (whom I have just telephoned) say they forwarded a similar parcel to Paul, so there can be no shortage for the little time left to you. You know how I feel about you, don't you? I want to have you near me to make love to and talk to and plan with and keep me from getting tired of life. I get a bit bored these days - sometimes - and I'd forgotten what it was like. I love you, my darling, I love you for the dear, lovely, loveable girl that you are, and I think about you whenever I let my mind wander. You are my one and only sweetheart for ever, my Permanent Wizzle, my bedwarmer and my kissee. L

ellas9602

That's just wonderful. I would also buy the book Daisyroots! Thank you for sharing.


Thriftlady, were your food costs much less for the week?

jennybb

Those letters are wonderful.

Thriftlady, well done - you also have my vote for post of the month.

I'm interested in what you've spent as well.

sproggi

Just nominate for post of the month from me too:D

Can't believe I forgot to do it before:doh:

Sproggi