The Wartime Kitchen And Garden Program

Ice_2

Hi there everyone although I am only 46 and was on in the war...this is a program on UKTV GARDENS SKY channel 258 it is broadcast at 10am 2pm and 10pm weekdays
it's a program of how it was in world war 2
a program that takes you back in time to the Home Front of WW2
it's quite an eye opener... and thing's like this should be brought back to our day now in the battle against the government over taxes on everything going up... in WW2 the biggest threat to britain was Hitler... in this day the biggest threat to britain is Gordon Brown... and the tax man putting the prices up on anything edible...there is a cookbook but I wouldn't know where to get it...it is a very enjoyable program and you can learn lots from it on how to budget things in this day...the home front cookbook thats what is needed today to help people with large families cope with raising taxes...anyone remember to good old days or have seen the program it started on 6th February
we need something like this for today:D

thriftlady_2

There's this book which accompanied the TV series that was on some years ago. Is it the same one Ice? I'd love to see it again unfortunately we've ditched Sky.

Have you seen this thread about living on wartime rationing ? There are several recipe books mentioned.

mary43

Tis a shame they always put these programmes on Sky and we don't have it.
Hopefully it'll get repeated somewhere down the line.

Love the thread............very interesting.
I was brought up through the 40's and can remember some of the meals we had. We were lucky that gran kept her own chickens so we always had chicken and eggs, plus her and grandad between them had three allottments oon the go, plus huge garden with fruit trees and bushes in so we never went without the necessary fruit and veg.
Bread was delivered and sliced very carefully by Mum.............tea time consisted of bread and jam and if we were lucky, a slice of cake made by gran. No snacks before bedtime........cup of cocoa and that was it.
Breakfast was porridge..............warm and filling in the winter.
Dinner was always meat and two veg and we always had pudding
Sometimes the meat was awful, very fatty/gristly but we had to eat every bit before we could leave the table.
Mum made suet roll with onion in sometimes and we had that as a sort of 'starter' on the days we might not have pudding.
Suet was a big thing in our household for pastry and puddings.
Sweets were on ration so we were lucky if we saw many of those and clothes were something mum made us or were passed down from someone else. Our jumpers were made from the unravelled wool of something else.The one thing she always insisted on though was Clarks shoes.
When I read about it now I think life must have been so hard with no luxuries like washing machines, fridges, central heating and all those things we take for granted.
And somehow Mum managed to fit all the housework and cooking in around a part time factory job ! I'll never know how she managed.

Ice_2

it's also on virgin media but I don't know which channel sorry:o
found it virgin tv channel 267

Ice_2

mary 43...I grew up in the 60's and that just sounds like what we went through very weird reading your post thinking that was like us lot...thanks... it was the good old dazes wasn't it shame we couldn't go back and start again...there was a mother of 4 children on the news the other day saying she was having to turn off the heating because she couldn't afford to pay the bills ...in the 60's we didn't have heating...people of this time seems to forget what it was like to live without heating...give me a coal fire any day...and what's wrong with hot water bottles and extra clothing and blankets besides it was healthier not to have heating...it's given me asthma...

mary43

I first got married in 1962...........little terrace house with nothing of any luxury at all. Open fires (just like at Mums).......we had a parafinn heater in the kitchen and OH knocked through the outdoor loo so it became indoor with another door to the old coal shed that became the bathroom.Burco boiler and mangle............no need to iron..............lol
And we had hot water bottles, blankets (don't think duvets were heard of then) and if need be I wore a cardigan in bed (romance ? what was that ?..........lol)
Power cuts meant we had to have something cooked on the fire (jacket potatos underneath, saucepan of soup or baked beans on top...........toast and dripping - yummy............and I made my own bread ! Can't believe I did all that. We get so used to our home comforts........too used to them really.

Lily-Lu

Oh I'd loved to have watched this, but we only have a Freeview box:(

MRSMCAWBER

Hi there

Wish i could listen to that programme...mind i can listen to my lovely mum who i talk to most days :T

Im 36 and remember before we got central heating...waking up to find lovely snowflake patterns on the inside of the windows :rotfl:
Even now we have central heating and double glazing -its very rare for us to have the heating on-and its not even that we can't afford it -but we find it much cosier to snuggle under a blanky

I still do a lot of the recipes my mum used to cook when we were kids -the only "processed" food we ever had were tinned beans and peas and the recipes i do are those that she learnt at school -she is 69 now.... savoury meat roll yumyum, stuffed breast of lamb -using the bones to make breast of lamb stew, corned beef hash n dumplings.... i am soooo glad that i have adopted mums recipes -i would hate to think of them dying off.. I have now gone back to making everything from scratch and am losing weight like i would never have thought possible ....

heck im rambling ...you have me started now :rotfl:

Ice_2

thanks for all your comments ...yes I am trying to lose weight to...I have been immobile for too long now and have just got my new foot so it's all systems go and hope I don't fall over to much...I fell over more than afew times last year after I had my foot operated on (lost the front half of right foot to cancer) I haven't felt well for about 3 years of different treatments and operations so it wasn't until the doctor at a & e said "cos your abit on the round side it has softened the blow so not to much damage done" well since then I have been annoyed with myself for letting it get this far...I was a size 12-14 depending on the fitting I bought a new coat the other day it's an 18 I am so upset with my weight...but apparently according to my dietistion I don't eat enough to make my matabolisiom work...if that can be possible...I was off food for quite some time so maybe she was rightish...but I eat fresh veg fresh fruit all the right things I don't eat much sweets infact hardly ever...or biscuits and cakes I do like ice cream though...anyway I need to lose weight badly...I feel so fat...I am fat...:eek:I saw this program today and thought that'll help me...

thriftlady_2

Ice wrote: »

...anyway I need to lose weight badly...I feel so fat...I am fat...:eek:I saw this program today and thought that'll help me...

I lost a couple of pounds the second week of my wartime experiment without trying. Goodness knows why I didn't carry on with it as I've put it back on. You know I might just go back on rations. It will be interesting to do it in the winter months as last time it was summer with local strawberries and asparagus, now we've got parsnips and cabbage.

Why not have a go Ice, and best of British with your new foot

catznine

Thanks for this ice! I was born in the 50's and although rationing had just ended I also remember that no food was ever wasted or fabric either, Mum once made our coats from old army blankets, also ice on the inside of the windows brrr! I have just watched tonights episode and enjoyed it, want to go make the chocolate, carrot pudding now! Looking forward to the next episode. (((hugs))) re your poor foot.