We'll Eat Again

Eyeore

I am another one who loves reading about the Home Front and I am a young 48......

I have the Victory book and have just ordered the Jubilee Dishes book, oh dear! Just can't help it, I love reading through the recipes and make do and mend attitude.

Mrs LWalker, am quite jealous of your collection!
Thriftlady, lovely to see you back, I greatly enjoyed your thread

I shall read this thread with interest :j

ArthriticOldThing

While my two sons were growing up I needed to feed four of us on my OH's pension - it's a long and complicated story - so I used a lot of recipes from 'We'll Eat Again' and Shirley Goode. Everyone enjoyed them and my sons - now grown men in their 30s - still talk about those meals.
Sadly I'm Coeliac and find the recipes difficult to adapt.

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FurryBeastOz wrote: »

jackie0 Just been looking through thriftys old thread - where did you live? I was brought up just up the hill from Lee High Road - next to St Margarets Church on Lee Terrace.

We lived just off Blackheath and I went to school at All Saints in the village(it was a village in those days) , today its a sort of trendy rich folks place to live, back in the 1940s-50s it was just a place my Dad thought was better than living in the eastend of London because of the bombing.Mum had been bombed out twice which was awful and dad decided to get out of london into the suburbs more ,although Blackheath wasn't exactly rural even then.

katkin

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JackieO, I just can't imagine how terrifying it must have been for your folks.


I really fancy this mock duck recipe. Made from sausagemeat, onion and apples.

A red wine or fruity orange gravy would be nice with this.

https://1940sexperiment.wordpress.com/2012/07/22/mock-duck/

dandy-candy

Question for thriftlady if she's still about, did you lose weight on the wartime diet?

FrugalinShropshire

Well I am back with my book and planning to work through as many recipes as I can. There has been a lot of illness in the family and food preparation has not been my focus, but hopefully now we have turned a corner.
Today I made the filling for the Mock Apricot Flan, but didn't have time to do the pastry as OH requested a coconut cake. But I did do the Mock Cream to go with our gooseberry crumble and it was fab!

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I remember lots of puds to fill you up from those days, only one I wasn't keen on was tapioca.But loved rice,semolina, stewed rhubarb or apples all accompanied with thick gloopy Birds custard that was so thick you could almost spread it on bread :):) Rice pud usually had a spoonful of jam in the middle and whipped up turned it a pale pink colour Unless it was home made the only jam I can remember my Mum buying was 'mixed fruit' which seemed to contain almost anything She was convinced that the seeds were sawdust chucked in to make it look good
Tate & Lyle's golden syrup in a tin was gorgeous on toast also condensed milk sarnies or 'conny-onny' as we called it for some reason.
Coffee was always the disgusting Camp essence which my Mum loathed but instant was hard to get. Soap powder was Oxydol in an orange box with circles on it and soap was a green Fairy bar which she used to scrub my brothers mucky shirt collars on the scrubbing board. Boys only wore grey shirts to school in those days, white ones were for adults like your Dad.

My Dad being a chemist used to have starched white coats as well,which my Mum starched with Robin starch so much you could almost stand them up on their own :):)

I too have those books and also the first cookery book I bought when I got married in 1962 it cost me half a crown (2/6d) from Woolworths and was called Cooking for Two still got it on the shelf
I have my late Ma-in-laws WI cook book from pre-war as well, so interesting recipes in there from ladies in the WI on the Isle of Wight

mardatha

Jackie those puddings are my idea of heaven onna plate! My mum never ever made a pudding, but my friends mums did when I went for tea. I still love semolina with a splodge of jam in.

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Got a wartime blackberry crumble and a wartime sausage and apple pie in the oven for supper tonight and the kitchen smells heavenly!!!

monnagran

When did puddings fall out of favour?

We never had a meal without a pudding of some sort, even in the war and immediately afterwards when rationing was even worse. We grew loads of fruit which was faithfully preserved in rows and rows of Kilner jars to keep us in puddings during the winter months. As well as all the milk puddings we had fruit crumbles, pies, stewed, and something called 'stirabout' which was a sort of spongy/suetty mixture mixed with fruit and steamed.
Everyone came home to lunch in the middle of the day - first course and pudding - and tea was bread and butter, home-made jam, and some sort of home made cake. Where did we put all this food? I suppose the portions were smaller and we did a lot more walking.

I never have puddings now. Sigh!

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