Thriftlady's wartime experiment

Mamae

Well I have just spent the last 2 days reading all 32 pages of this thread. Fantastic reading. Feel inspired to go and make carrot cookies!:D Well down thriftlady, an inspiration to us all! :T

Mamae

Me again!!

thriftlady wrote: »

Recipe for Raised Pork Pie

You need an 8 inch cake tin with a loose bottom.

Make the hot-water crust pastry:

Melt 4 oz of cooking fat or dripping in a saucepan with ½ pint of water.
Pour onto 1 lb sifted plain flour and 1 tsp salt.
Mix well and keep warm.

Make the filling:

Mix together
1 lb of sausagemeat
6oz finely chopped bacon
1 grated apple (my addition)
2 medium onions, finely chopped
1 tbsp of whatever fresh herbs you have (I shall use parsley) or ½ tsp of dried herb.
Salt and pepper -I add some mace too because I like it savoury pies.

Assemble the pie

Knead the pastry until smooth and pliable. Roll out two thirds of it to line the bottom and sides of the tin. Fill with filling.
Roll out the rest of the pastry and press on top of pie (wet the edges).
Make a cut in the lid for steam to escape. Use leftover pastry to make leaves etc if you like.
Brush with beaten egg if you can spare one -I don't bother.

Bake at 180C/Gas 4 for 2 hours. Serve cold.

Adapted slightly from The Victory Cookbook by Marguerite Patten.



http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=2333718&postcount=3

Made this today. Worked a treat. Have enough for dinner tomorrow as well. Thanks.:D

Savvy_sewing

I have just been given a link to this site. Although I am not planning to do a complete war time experiment. I will be reading the recipies etc to get inspiration just to reduce my household grocery bill. I have had a major drop in income which is triggering this. Thanks for the inspiration.

Jo4

I am looking forward to reading this thread from start to finish and attempting some of the recipes.

kittieme0w

Just seen this post - it's great!!!! :T
A few months back, my Grandmother bought me a new recipe book - it's called:
Eating For Victory: Healthy Home Front Cooking on War Rations

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eating-Victory-Healthy-Official-Reproductns/dp/184317264X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245885863&sr=8-2

(It's actually on sale on the Amazon website for £6.49 down from £9.99 at the moment)
Thought I'd just put the link up incase anyone fancied a look.

I would highly recommend it to anyone if they decided to purchase a book along these lines. It has a ton of recipes, meal planners, measurements tables, everything. Been extremely useful to me since lately have had to do a lot of cutting back finance-wise and it has really helped me to learn how to use what I have left over in my cupboard, as well as the fact that I know what's actually gone into my food, and it not being processed crap so to speak. Huge bonus with having a toddler and not wanting him to eat pure junk!!

Also, if anyone's interested; I could start up a new thread and type up the recipes??

thriftlady_2

It's a good book isn't it? It is a compilation of some of the Ministry of Food leaflets that were produced during the war. Here's a link, you can look inside and see what it's like;) There's also a companion book called Make Do and Mend.

There are several facsimile wartime cookbooks around now that are also worth a look.

Good Eatingrecipes sent in by Telegraph readers.
Good Faremore reader's recipes
Food Facts for the Kitchen Front

The Imperial War Museum has reproduction leaflets and books too. I recenty bought a few at Duxford. This one, The ABC of Cookery, a very good basic cookbook. And these leaflets which are also available from Amazon (pics are bigger on Amazon) Wise Eating in Wartime and How to Keep Well in Wartime.

Kittie, I think it is wonderful that you are using wartime recipes. The basic ingredients required are so cheap. I'm wondering how you find the taste of the recipes?

I find that they require a lot of help in the flavour dept. I think we are so used to 'full-on' flavours these days. By the end of my little experiment I was yearning for some spice. Of course you can easliy spice things up a bit if you have a well stocked store cupboard.

I also found the meatless recipes a bit dull. I think it is quite easy to cook tasty meatless recipes these days because we are used to cuisines from around the world-chili, curry etc.

bebee_2

kittieme0w wrote: »

Just seen this post - it's great!!!! :T
A few months back, my Grandmother bought me a new recipe book - it's called:
Eating For Victory: Healthy Home Front Cooking on War Rations

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eating-Victory-Healthy-Official-Reproductns/dp/184317264X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245885863&sr=8-2

(It's actually on sale on the Amazon website for £6.49 down from £9.99 at the moment)
Thought I'd just put the link up incase anyone fancied a look.

I would highly recommend it to anyone if they decided to purchase a book along these lines. It has a ton of recipes, meal planners, measurements tables, everything. Been extremely useful to me since lately have had to do a lot of cutting back finance-wise and it has really helped me to learn how to use what I have left over in my cupboard, as well as the fact that I know what's actually gone into my food, and it not being processed crap so to speak. Huge bonus with having a toddler and not wanting him to eat pure junk!!

Also, if anyone's interested; I could start up a new thread and type up the recipes??

What a Fabulous Idea i would be interested if you were up for all the typing.:T

snoozer

Sorry to be a killjoy but you might get into copyright issues if you type up lots of recipes from other publications. One or two is usually acceptable and the board guides will let you know but usually they ask for links to be posted unless a recipe has been adapted in some way to make it different from the original.

thriftlady_2

snoozer wrote: »

Sorry to be a killjoy but you might get into copyright issues if you type up lots of recipes from other publications. One or two is usually acceptable and the board guides will let you know but usually they ask for links to be posted unless a recipe has been adapted in some way to make it different from the original.

Snoozer's right. When we post recipes from books (as I have done on this thread) we write them in our own words and more often than not with our own variations. You can't copy chunks of a book word for word I'm afraid;)

Penelope_Penguin

snoozer wrote: »

Sorry to be a killjoy but you might get into copyright issues if you type up lots of recipes from other publications. One or two is usually acceptable and the board guides will let you know but usually they ask for links to be posted unless a recipe has been adapted in some way to make it different from the original.

You and thriftlady are both correct See this from MSE Martin:

Take care over copyright. Use excerpts and links rather than copying long text. This site asserts copyright on all comments posted on the board.

Penny. x