Thriftlady's wartime experiment

Thistle-down

Glad to be of service!

It's a great little cooker, provided you don't want to cook with anything bigger then an 8" x 8" pan. We have adapted after using it for over 2 years, so it's not a problem, but also have a Remoska for larger things, like whole chickens.

kat79

Only just found this thread! Sorry I missed it all when it was happening as I love reading about wartime kitchens etc! I rememebr making rock cakes with my nan! I always knew it was going to be a good day when I got to her flat and I could smell the bread pudding in the oven and see the ingredients for rock cakes ready for me and my sis!

Does anyone have a recipe for rock cakes?

Also, slightly off the topic but does anyone know if its true that red lipstick was issued by the government to boost morale?? I was told this once and even if its not true it makes me smile!

Well done thrift!!!!!!!!:T

dubgirl

I have just been catching up with this thread and I love it. good on you thrift lady. I would second Kat79's request for a receipe for rock cakes, I can remember my Nan always making them. Yum, yum.

kat79

Just found this on google (why didn't i think of that before!!!!:rolleyes: )

Rock Cakes (Hurrah!!!!:T )

Ingredients:
8ozs [250g] flour,
3ozs [75g] sugar,
1/2 teaspoon spice, a little milk,
1 reconstituted egg,
4ozs [125g] mixed dripping,
cooking fat and margarine,
3 or 4ozs [75-125g] fruit,
1 teaspoon [1x15ml spoon] baking powder and a pinch of salt. Sieve all dry ingredients together and then rub in the fat until the mixture is like very fine breadcrumbs. Then add the egg blended with the milk and not with water, so as to make a very stiff mixture. Lastly the fruit. Put in rough heaps on a greased baking tin and cook in a rather quick oven for 20-25 minutes with the dial at 6 or 425-450ºF [225ºC gas mark 7].


Wonder if they taste like nanny's????:rolleyes:

thriftlady_2

Just want to say that on re-reading this thread I've found a lot of my pics have disapperared (again) -I've fixed it, but I think there's a time limit or something on them and they just disappear after a while So, if you can't see them I'm really sorry, but I just don't know why it is happening.

thriftlady_2

New book of reproduction Ministry of Food leaflets

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eating-Victory-Healthy-Official-Reproductns/dp/184317264X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/202-5197691-7152669?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188669780&sr=8-1

It's on my wishlist

annie123

what a fab thread, never seen it before on here this is going to take a while to read through, but looks worth it.

Sarahsaver

Leicester New Walk museum is selling reproduction ration books, they look very real, I have seen the real thing which my Dad had.

thriftlady_2

thriftlady wrote: »

New book of reproduction Ministry of Food leaflets

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eating-Victory-Healthy-Official-Reproductns/dp/184317264X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/202-5197691-7152669?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188669780&sr=8-1

It's on my wishlist

I've just bought myself this book (it was in WHSmith) and can thoroughly recommend it if you are at all interested in the subject.

Loads of easy-sounding, thrifty recipes and some general information on basic cooking. There are also some menu plans and info on nutrition. This caught my eye -from a leaflet called Foods For Fitness, the quote refers to 'energy foods' like those high in fats, sugars and starches.

'Appetite is a good guide to our needs of these energy foods and, if we take more than we require, we generally store the surplus as fat.'

Good advice today

1sttimer_2

catznine wrote: »

Wartime Kitchen!

Thanks for the photos and memories. I remember mum having an oven very similar to this when I was very young (I was born 1952), when they got a new oven, the grill pan was rescued by dad and the handle cut off and I still use this today as a small roasting tin. It's tons better than some of the newer ones! The other items such as the breadbin and pans my parents had till they died when we threw them out because of the many rusty chips in (sad mistake unfortunately!) I still have many other old bits and pieces of theirs and when we've been to some working museum or other (Telford Blitz Hill/Beamish for instance) more often or not, I can point to a few items and say 'I've got one of them' much to the horror of my children!