The Wartime Kitchen And Garden Program

thriftlady_2

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Thriftlady - Have you anyone who is willing to record these programmes for you?
They are being shown again back to back on Saturday x x

Why didn't I think of that?:doh:Ta!

parsonswife8

I am really enjoying these programmes. I am going to tell my 86 year old MIL to watch them back to back this weekend and to watch the one on Friday.

I know they will bring back a lot of memories for her.

Aeshna

Great thread, thanks for bringing this to our attention.

For anyone who missed this programme, like me, it's on NOW on Yesterday.

Aeshna x

meanmarie

Loving these programmes, while everyone worked hard, there was a sense of leisure, if that's the correct word, nobody was rushing around trying to do 3 things at once.

I am convinced that people were healthier due to the fact that the food they ate hadn't been treated with any kind of artificial fertiliser, in addition to the necessary activity involved in getting from place to place.

My late mother told me that when they had boiled meat, they would save the fat from the top of the pot to use in pastry making.....

I have my parents' ration books, I was born in 1945 but don't know if I ever had a ration book, rationing in Ireland wasn't as prolonged as in UK.

Old_Joe

There was a period during the war when there were no sweets in the shops, so I used to buy a carrot on the way to school, scrape it with my penknife and scrunch it as I went along.

funfairprincess

i'm loving the program and have sky+ to let my Auntie see when she's over. I loved that chocolate pudding I could eat the lot myself!

valk_scot wrote: »

I still have my mum's wedding dress...she was married in 1947. Her waist was 21" and she was 5'1" tall. People in general were smaller and slimmer in these days. Even in the 70's, when I was a teenager, the biggest standard size was a 14 and finding a D-cup bra was practically impossible. I was a size 14 and a D-cup when I was 18 years old and belive me, I was one of the fattest people I knew. The size of the average teenager nowadays never ceases to amaze me.

Doesn't say much for me then my mam was born in 47 and I'm 5'1'' with a 19'' waist. maybe I'm from a family of smurfs ? I can't stand the fact that my oldest 13 is bigger than me and my neice who is 10 is now only 1'' shorter than me but hey I'll get those hand me downs off her soon:money::T:T:rotfl:

Gigervamp

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Thriftlady - Have you anyone who is willing to record these programmes for you?
They are being shown again back to back on Saturday x x

Thanks for the info. I couldn't record it last night because we'd lost the channel. Don'tcha just love digital TV? A slightly weak signal and you don't get anything, unlike analogue where it might be a bit fuzzy, but you could still watch the programme. :rolleyes:

THIRZAH

I have a photo of our village WI in the 1930s-some of the members were certainly overweight.
My mother used to make brawn in the 1960s. My grandfather had a pig farm and would sometimes have a pig killed for us. We froze most of the meat. The abbatoir would remove the eyes and hair but we had to do the rest. I used to hate coming home from school to find a dead pig on the kitchen table.

We ate the pigs fry on the first day then the head would be put in a pot and boiled. It was usually my job to "keep an eye on it" and make sure it didn't boil dry.Unlike Ruth Mott I would eat other peoples brawn but hated the stuff my mother made.

[Deleted User]

I liked the idea of using grated potato as a fat alternative in pastry. Apparently it tasted good and sounds like a healthier alternative.

I've had a look on-line and can't find a fat-less potato pastry recipe so far

Ches

I was born in 44 so can remember a bit about rationing. We lived in the country with my grandparents so I had more than my share of sweets. Grandad used to grow most of our fruit and veg. Later when I was an adult and became interested in the Home Front I asked my mum what recipes they used and after frowning for some time she said that she didn't eat anything different than she had always done so I guess I had been fed on a wartime diet long after the war and rationing had actually ended. I know she used to make bread and butter pudding without eggs. In fact I didn't know you were supposed to use eggs in the recipe until I met my MIL.