Thriftlady's wartime experiment

The_Evacuee

Hi Thriftylady........my first post with congratulations on your recent triumph. (I heard the trumpets sound from here!!)

Having read through all the posts on here (because I found them so interesting) and everything that has been said has brought back a memory or two to me.


I was born in 1933 and I also remember using the newspaper torn in strips when we went to the loo! The fish shop used to use newspapers too, to wrap the fish and a pennyworth of chips.


My earliest recollection of my Aunt saving food was when my cousin knocked a jar of Apricot jam off the table which broke on the floor. The three of us were on our knees trying to scoop the jam into a dish and get rid of the pieces of glass so that we could eat it! Ever since whenever I have bread and Apricot jam spread on it I feel like taking pieces of glass out of my mouth! A dangerous thing our mother did but she was thinking it was that or nothing I suppose. It would go straight into the dustbin these days.


Camp coffee was for Uncle only (I was brought up by them because my Mum passed away when I was a year old) but we did get free milk at school, a third of a pint I think. Nobody mentioned sterilized milk...that tasted somewhat like a thin evaporated milk as I found out later.


My wife once made us fried chips from Swedes or Turnip I think, some years ago when potatoes were hard to get but our son at the time refused to eat them. Good job he didn't live during the war.



As for Lt. Richard Winters of Band of Brothers fame, I had the good fortune of meeting him a couple of times in Holland at a Liberation Celebration. I found him a very humble and unpretentious man with a bucket load of memories.


Keep up the good work and one final thought I just had....when I was evacuated we had an outside toilet with a bench like seat with three holes in it!
Nothing like sitting passing the time of day in good company I suppose....!!


Thank you for starting such an interesting topic.:T:T:T

Errata

I've just had thought for the next war related Thriftlady challenge. Gas and electric were often non-existent and people cooked on the coal range or used a spirit camping burner and a hay box.

fizzel81

Congratulations on post of the month thriftlady, ive just spent half an hour catching up from the last time i was reading (lack of time over the last few days) fantastic challenge and well done.
Thank you also to everyone who contributed recipies some nice sounds foods here to try

GarethM_2

Justamum wrote: »

My husband is South African and used to love biltong - and then he met me and became vegetarian! (I told him I wasn't prepared to cook meat so he'd have to cook his own so it was easier for him not to eat it at all).

Now pap we do like. I cook it quite often, the family favourite is stywe pap. I haven't heard the word "derms" before though - what's that?

Sorry for the late reply been a little pre-occupied of late.

I love biltong too, but unfortuantely, after my apparently bad attempt at describing how delicious it was, my lovely lady vows never to touch the stuff.

Mielie Pap is delicious. But not with Derms. Derms is offal .. really all the intestinal bits.... see why I don't like it? hehe.

Gonna HAVE to get a recipe for koeksisters on here though .. that is one South African sweet I'm sure will find favour

anonymousie

The_Evacuee wrote: »

Keep up the good work and one final thought I just had....when I was evacuated we had an outside toilet with a bench like seat with three holes in it!
Nothing like sitting passing the time of day in good company I suppose....!!


Thank you for starting such an interesting topic.:T:T:T

:T From me too!

Brilliant thread- have tried quiet a few recipies.

Everytime I see a "historical" loo seat with "friendly" seating arrangements I always think How brilliant for those of us with young kids- mine are big now, but I never got to go on my own:o Always had one on the potty at my feet! Plus I'm sure the shouts of "mum I'm desperate" would be eased if there wa a vancant seat:rotfl:

Grotbags69

Thx so much for ure experiment Thriftlady. I have been following this thread with avid interest as it has given us quite a few giggles over the last few weeks. My Sister has been raving on about it (this site) for a while now. And now that she actually "Showed" me & loaded it into my browser. Well... needless to say, i permenantly have 8 tabs of the site open now LOL...

Well Done Thriftlady & congrats on POTM ...

Also, i see my beloved South African OH Gareth has been popping in too lol...
Darling... u can KEEP ure Biltong lol....
I'm a NE lass that doesn't eat NOWT dried n frazzled looking *Giggle* :P:P

I WILL be trying some of these lovely recipes ... Gonna get a bunny this week & i got some "Skin" from my local Butcher for sausages as i want to have a go at making my own sausages...

Grotty X

Justamum

GarethM wrote: »

Sorry for the late reply been a little pre-occupied of late.

I love biltong too, but unfortuantely, after my apparently bad attempt at describing how delicious it was, my lovely lady vows never to touch the stuff.

The smell of biltong is truly awful - but then I'm a vegetarian.

Mielie Pap is delicious. But not with Derms. Derms is offal .. really all the intestinal bits.... see why I don't like it? hehe.

Yeah - sounds vile!

Gonna HAVE to get a recipe for koeksisters on here though .. that is one South African sweet I'm sure will find favour

I've got a recipe for koeksisters in my South African Encyclopaedia of Cookery. It's a heck of a lot of faff, and I wouldn't bother again. I always thought I had a sweet tooth, but I can't eat them.

trulymadlydeeply_indebt!

meanmarie wrote: »

Can't remember what someone called bread and sugar with boiled milk on top...it was called ' goodie' in our house and was often fed to young and old who were unable to tolerate anything heavy or needing chewing.

This takes me back to when I was a kid and Dad had a day off work and made this at lunchtime. He called it "pobs". Maybe it stands for something, I don't know - pieces of bread and sugar?

catznine

A photo of a wartime larder taken in the kitchen of the last remaining bungalow at plotlands, laindon.

catznine

Wartime Kitchen!