The Wartime Kitchen And Garden Program

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Hi postivelymummy,

There was a recent thread on this programme so I've added your thread to it to keep all the replies together.

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positivelymummy

ta for the merge, i find the whole program quite relaxing, and i enjoy watching it and remembering stories that my grandma told me etc and thinking about what she had to cope with. i was thinking it would be a great programme to show in the schools too. we watched "how we used to live" back in the 80's at school, also about wartime etc. i also noticed they said people were healthiest back then too, all the gardening and eating such fresh food.....oh and i just enjoy seeing what the houses/kitchen etc looked like too, its like "oh my, thats my grandads radio!"

beemuzed

Haven't managed to see this - but it sounds fascinating. I remember my grandparents having a huge garden in the 50's where they grew every vegetable they needed - fruit too. They had a large guest house, always busy in the summer and catered for all their guests too. Gosh they worked hard!

slash69

oh no i cant find it advertised on 258 has the series finished

positivelymummy

it'll probably be on again soon, i think they had quite a few back to back last sunday, so maybe next sunday before on again etc, if not i'm sure they'll rerun it in the next couple of months.

Pipkin

I love this programme, and the victorian kitchen garden one too.

It would be hard work, but I can't help feeling we have lost something precious between then and the present day.. despite all the *better* stuff we have...

Olliebeak

meanmarie wrote: »

............would love to know if there is a book or DVD which goes with either

Slow, yes because it is middle of last century and life was slower then...part of its appeal for me

marie

found this after googling:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wartime-Kitchen-Garden-Jennifer-Davies/dp/0563364378


hope it's useful - but that sounds very expensive to me. Maybe the local library would have a copy that you could use and pinch some recipes from

moanymoany

thriftlady wrote: »

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.

You are very modest thriftlady.

moanymoany

In a previous thread ceridwen put a link to you tube and the programme 'Affluenza' which was fascinating.

I don't think life was necessarily better in those days, it was our expectations which were different. We were more easily satisfied.

My gran - who I spent a lot of time with - shopped and cleaned daily. She had a vegetable garden and cooked 'frugal' meals. In the afternoon she would relax and listen to the wireless as she knitted, sewed or embroidered. She didn't expect to be able to do her weekly shop, go into town and buy a new outfit, do two loads of washing and then go out for dinner to the local pub all in one day!

What they do in the Wartime garderner is very time consuming as 'daily' life. Leek pudding is very tasty, but it takes two hours to cook after half an hour preparing. You do also have to get cracking on the allotment to burn up those calories. Tricky carrying the spade on your bike because that's how you would have got there and back.

Much of the work on the garden would have been done 'by the light of the parish lantern' in other words - the moon! People worked long hours in factories and the work of growing things was a relief. However, the blackout and shift work made it tricky.

My mum told me stories of how her, her sister, mum and dad would take a picnic and cycle down to their allotment for the day. She also helped during the week if her shifts were right. Everyone was aware that food was a priority. She and her sister worked in a factory making gun parts - they had no choice as they were too young to join up.