Thriftlady's wartime experiment

weezl74

Spamfritter wrote: »

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followed by... ww2rations.blogspot.com/

I like it

Please can we have the bacon turnover recipe?

Weezl x

weezl74

thriftlady wrote: »

Don't get too excited it was only 1 or 2 lbs. I think though if you stuck to the rations then weight would come off. In fact there's a lady in Canada who is doing just that here - The 1940s Experiment, she's really doing it properly.

It's good reading that one isn't it?

I find it a tad tricky to navigate through the story though

And there's no crochet like on yours

Caterina

ruthber wrote: »

Agiaga, I am Polish too and I am afraid you cannot get kwasne mleko(sour milk) in Britain unless you have access to a farm where you can get unpasteurised milk "straight from a cow". The pasteurised milk you get from shops "goes off" and does not sour. hth

Ruthber I don't know where you are but in some Farmers Markets in London you can find untreated milk.

Also, I have some kefir grains that turn milk into kefir (isn't that the same as sour milk?). I have some spare ones if you want them.

thriftlady_2

weezl74 wrote: »

And there's no crochet like on yours

Aw bless you Weezl, glad you're enjoying it:)

thriftlady_2

windowshopper100 wrote: »

There's a lady (ex-pat) in Nova Scotia doing a similar blog, I'm sure you're aware but in case not it's 1940sexperiment wordpress com.

Thanks for sharing.
WS

Note to self -stop reading threads backwards

Hare's a link to Spamfritter's fabbie blogI love it, fantastic pics, really authentic feel- 'Go to it!:T

Caterina

I have just ordered the Wartime Diet Book from Amazon, but in order to even start contemplating making it work, I need to work out equivalent protein from the wartime cheese and meat rations and turn them into their vegetarian equivalent - as I do not eat meat or dairy.

I can use soya milk and eat eggs and a small amount of fish. How many sausages would I be allowed (as veggie sausages) and how much dried soya mince/chunks to make it an equivalent to the meat rations? How much tofu or seitan would I use to substitute cheese?

I suppose I could use veggie rashers for bacon but it is hardly worth it and I really cannot be bothered with too much manufactured food - what would I use instead?

Edited to say: I shall try to do this with DH only, as the kids would make mincemeat of ME if I tried to impose this sort of diet on them - wot, no pizza? No avocado? etc etc....

Thank you for any help you can give me!

Spamfritter

weezl74 wrote: »

I like it

Please can we have the bacon turnover recipe?

Weezl x

If you click on the image on the blog of the recipe it should give you a larger version that is easier to read!

I'll see what else I can get typed up or scanned this week.

tori.k

Thriftlady i love this thread and im having great fun with recipes...but we have decided the syrup loaf should have stayed in the 1940's even the dog hid the bit she had :rotfl:

Spamfritter

Sems to be some confusion on what sour milk means (sorry if its already been explained as havent read whole forum!)

Any wartime recipe that refers to sour milk literally means normal milk that has turned sour/ gone off... there were not many refrigerators in 1940s britain so milk went sour a lot.

I have an original wartime recipe leaflet that talks about the use of sour milk in baking and describes it as 'yesterdays milk that has turned'. apparently it is better for baking than fresh milk and loses none of its goodness.

So just normal milk left out for a day or 2... not anything like butter milk.

Spamfritter

Caterina wrote: »

I have just ordered the Wartime Diet Book from Amazon, but in order to even start contemplating making it work, I need to work out equivalent protein from the wartime cheese and meat rations and turn them into their vegetarian equivalent - as I do not eat meat or dairy.

I can use soya milk and eat eggs and a small amount of fish. How many sausages would I be allowed (as veggie sausages) and how much dried soya mince/chunks to make it an equivalent to the meat rations? How much tofu or seitan would I use to substitute cheese?

I suppose I could use veggie rashers for bacon but it is hardly worth it and I really cannot be bothered with too much manufactured food - what would I use instead?

Edited to say: I shall try to do this with DH only, as the kids would make mincemeat of ME if I tried to impose this sort of diet on them - wot, no pizza? No avocado? etc etc....

Thank you for any help you can give me!

This could potentially be a facinating experiment as Veganism was first established on the british home front during the war as a direct response to the governments vegetarian ration... so there were vegans living off of rations.

This quote from wikipedia....

The Vegan Society was founded in 1944 by Donald Watson and Elsie Shrigley, in response to the broadening of the term "vegetarian" to include the eating of dairy products. The first vegan society in the United States was founded in California in 1948 by Dr. Catherine Nimmo and Rubin Abramowitz and was subsequently incorporated into the American Vegan Society after its founding in 1960 by Jay Dinshah.

There may be some research out there on the subject.

My only concern is that vegans really werent catered for back then and a dairy free ration diet could be quite dangerous unless you find a way of replacing all the calcium, protein and fat you lose from the meat and dairy produce. Modern veganism is relatively easy due to the range of foods available but a war time diet with the meat protein, fat and dairy removed could lead to malnutrition and calcium deficiency....as I'm sure was a problem for many vegans and vegitarians of the time in the UK

Would be very interesting to find out what vegans suplimented their diet with.... could be even more ingenious recipes than the normal home front cookery..