Recipe 31: Farmhouse Scramble (version 1)
Recipe 32: Cottage Pie
Recipe 33: Potato and Cheese Bake
Recipe 34: Boeuf Bourguignon 1940s Rations Style
Recipe 35: Potato Floddies
Recipe 36: Bread and Apple Pudding
Recipe 37: Danish Apple Pudding
Recipe 38: Vegetable Stew
Recipe 39: Wartime Welsh Cakes
Recipe 40: Cold meat pasties
Recipe 41: Quick chocolate icing
Recipe 42: Potato Rarebit
Recipe 43: Mock Cream Recipe 2
Recipe 44: No Cook Chocolate Cake
Recipe 45: Mince Slices
Recipe 46: Marmite Mushrooms (a modern creation?)
Recipe 47: Eggless Fruit Cake
Recipe 48: Potato and Carrot Pancakes
Recipe 49: Potato and Lentil Curry
Recipe 50: Mock Goose
Recipe 51: Wartime Eggless Christmas Cake
Recipe 52: Vegetable and Oatmeal Goulash
Recipe 53: Irish Soda-Bread
Recipe 54: Eggless Pancakes
Recipe 55: Carrot Cookies
Recipe 56: Herby Bread
Recipe 57: Poor Knight’s Fritters
Recipe 58: Eggless Mayonnaise
Recipe 59: Split pea soup
Recipe 60: Potato Fingers
Being it’s the Holiday Season, I’ll steal 2 more from Carolyn :
Recipe 102: Eggless christmas pudding
Recipe 157: Ministry of Food Christmas Cake
My mother is obsessed by cream cakes because you could not get them in Wales during the war!
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Seriously? I never knew that, Emma. Interesting.
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Well, that’s her excuse. Everything was rationed in the UK. I think the only food that wasn’t rationed was bread.
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I’ll get my wife to try out a few of these. They sound really interesting!
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A few of them sound quite British too, aren’t they, John?
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Coming off the Great Depression, a lot of housewives already knew how to do more with less. An interesting post today, GP! Always interesting to come here!
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They had the ingenuity, right Doug? Nowadays with a fast-food restaurant on every corner people don’t need to – sad.
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My mother and father used to say they didn’t like war or economic depressions, but they felt we (the Boomers in particular) needed to experience something like that to appreciate what we had. I tend to agree with that.
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Ah yes, my father thought that as well. Without the bad – how does one know when times are good?
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Exactly! In fact, I remember both of my parents using those exact words!
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Same generation.
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This is a post worth keeping for future reference. I might try some of these old recipes.
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bon appétit, Bev. Let me know how it turns out!
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Reblogged this on John's Notes and commented:
More interesting WWII time recipes that I wanted to share
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Thank you, John.
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Thanks for sharing these- I’ve been wanting to try out some 40’s recipes! Though I’ll admit, after writing about SPAM a couple of months ago, I picked up a can on sale…and it’s still sitting in the cupboard. I’ll try it…eventually…though according to the cartoon you shared I’ve got time 😉
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haha, but even so, this is more modern times where things are made to expire not last – check the expiration date anyway! 🙂
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Good advice! (Hmmm, so if I wait long enough…)
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There are a dozen of these recipes that I grew up with, and some of them continued to be made right up until — this year! In some cases, my mother’s recipes were almost exact duplicates, which makes sense, since she was a child of the times.
On another topic entirely, but related to your most recent post about the submarines, I didn’t realize until very recently that the practice among open-ocean cruising sailors of sharing berthing space, called ‘hot bunking’, started out as a submariner’s term. When I sailed from Hawaii to Alaska, night watch crews particularly would hot bunk, especially if the weather was iffy and watches were short or demanded extra hands on deck. Very interesting.
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Thank you for both stories, Linda. You are always a great source for contributions to this site, thank you very much!
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Some great recipes. Thanks GP. I went over and had a look.
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bon appétit, Paol !!
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Great post! I especially like the cartoons! Love to laugh!
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Glad you enjoyed the post! Do you have time to cook in between your great paintings?
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Welcome! Yes, I squeeze in computer work, housework and supper between actual painting time. I am on a tread mill every day but I think it is better to have too much to do than too little. Have a great weekend!
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I seem to remember a recipe for mock apple pie. All I remember was it used soda crackers. Those of the WWII generation were good at making recipes with sparse ingredients.
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With progress (?), we seem to have lost that knack.
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Awesome. Wow this post seems to be really popular!
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Every one eats and likes to save money – plus, it’s a great break in the constant talk about war! Enjoy!
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👍👍
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Great list, GP! Thank you very much! I have to excuse for the missing recipes by myself. I will try to find the old book i told you about. Best wishes, Michael
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That would be great!
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What an amazing collection. I can see it’s quite popular! I’d love to make a meal of these for students.
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If you do, please take pictures and tell me how it turned out, Jacqui!! Better yet – do a post on it!!
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Great Part Two GP here’s link https://history2research.wordpress.com/2018/12/13/featured-blogger-report-home-front-wartime-recipes-2-by-pacific-paratrooper-acehistorydesk-rep-orts/
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Thank you!!
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Bedankt voor de recepten van Carolyn.ik ga er zeker enkele uitproberen
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I hope you like them, Mary Lou!!
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People certainly had to be imaginative during these hard times!
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They sure were, plus the many people living passed 100 years old now are from this era. Makes ya think, eh?
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Doesn’t it just!
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Sadder than usual Farewell today, GP. Thanks for honoring these fine men.
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It’s m honor to do so, John. I’ve been checking every day since the accident, and I finally found it 12 hours after their names were released.
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You are the best.
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Aw shucks…..
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🙂
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Now this is a post worth putting in the favorites and consulting throughout the year when the cupboard is a little bare!
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haha, you read my mind. That’s exactly what I do!!
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I assume similar recipes created and published by a U.S. Government agency. The recipes presented here come apparently from a British “Ministry of Food”. Has anyone a similar book or books of recipes published by the U.S.?
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Our family doesn’t have a book, but we found some interesting old recipes and helpful hints for cooking with the rations in U.S. newspapers from this era (the papers were stashed in the walls of my great-grandparents house-as insulation I suppose? 🙂 )
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Yes, newspapers were often stuffed in the walls as insulation. Was your grandparents house in a rural area? As for recipes, I would guess that many of those appeared in magazines such as “Good Housekeeping”. Somewhere or another, I still have my ration books — issued to me as a young child — with ration stamps still remaining.
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Yes, they were in the Northwoods of Minnesota- insulation was important! How neat that you’ve held on to the ration books, though I imagine they won’t honor the stamps anymore 😉
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I am forwarding this to my daughter (vegetarian) and my wife (who observes a vegan fast this time of year). There are some good ones in here.
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Hope it adds a little variety to their diet, Dan! I’ve tried being a vegetarian, thought I’d loose weight – I just couldn’t do it!! I lasted 2 weeks! Let me know how they like (dislike) the meals.
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My wife makes a a few of these (not from these recipes) already, but she says quite a few look good to her. I’m glad the war is over and rationing is a thing of the past.
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Yes, it is, but that’s why we got away from these recipes, isn’t it?
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Of course I wasn’t born at the time, but I remember my maternal grandmother talking about how during the war (WWII) almost every household had a few “free range” chickens. Everyone shared, so there were few, if any, “Snuffy Smith” types practicing their trade. Fresh eggs and insect control side-by-side. Also, their table was always open to those in need. Share and share alike, and make do with what you had. This was in Panama City, FL. My granny’s house was across the street from the county courthouse, and three whole blocks from Harrison Avenue (the heart of downtown). My mother, a teen at the time, worked in the ticket booth at the local movie theater. My father was an MP with the Army Air Corps stationed at nearby Tyndall Field (now Tyndall AFB). He managed to take in as many movies as he could while off duty. That’s how they met, and how I came to be a few years after the war. 🙂
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Great story, I appreciate you sharing it with us here! Our readers enjoy the first hand accounts and this one from the home front too!!
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Awesome recipes!!! Thank you!
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I hope you don’t think I’m branching out into your field, Diane. haha I’d make a dang fool of myself if I tried!!
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Absolutely you would not make a fool of yourself! You could probably teach me a thing or too!😃
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Thanks for saying so, but…….
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Reblogged this on By the Mighty Mumford and commented:
Humor gets us through!
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Thank you for helping out, Jonathan. I hope your readers enjoy it.
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I think they will.
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Yay! more recipes. When it comes the time in the spring where we are learning about WWII, I am going to do a mini-unit on this and I see our classes eating some of these recipes!
You are an inspiration. 🙂
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I appreciate you saying so, Cindy. Make sure you let me know how it works out!!
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Great post. I seem to remember some of these recipes, especially Cottage Pie … which I still make and enjoy (as opposed to Shepherd’s Pie). And, I still keep cans of spam in my pantry!
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I’ve known a few people who still like their Spam – and nowadays, it has a lot more of a variety of flavors.
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I still like plain old Spam.
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Gotcha!
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I am definitely going to do the potato floddies just for the name!
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Let me know how it all turns out!!
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Will do!
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Mother reckoned she saw just two fresh eggs in all her service with the ATS….but the services did a lot better than the civilians.
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That’s for sure. My mom remembered the margarine with a pill in it to make it look like butter after you kneaded it, but dad said in the service they had so much butter, they often used it to protect their weapons, etc from the humidity of the jungle.
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Heehee – I remember some of these – especially that farm house scramble!
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Best regards
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It may be time to start making it again?
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As always, thank you for being one of the keepers of the flame.
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It is my pleasure and honor.
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My grandfather was the one feeding everybody in Colorado, Weld County because he was one of the largest farmers here. That’s why I’d always ask what they ate, it’s so interesting, and I don’t think people realize how much are diets and foods have changed.
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We eat far too much processed food, I know that. The rest is indulgence!
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Nummers! I’m gonna have my mummy make no. 44. No cook chocolate cake!! Fun post, and I’ll visit Carolyn.
PR
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Thanks, and let me know how the cake turns out!
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Perhaps these recipes are better for us today, in this era of expanding girdles.
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That was exactly my thought!! 🙂
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Everything looks delicious to me. My step-grandfather was Armenian so they often cooked bulgur wheat and lentils as a main meal.
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The closest I’ve come is lentil soup. It was mandatory on New Years Day at my godfather’s house!!
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Mandatory soups … not usually a good thing 😉
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What can I say – it was their tradition.
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Hey! Spam helped a lot of people after WW2. Those recipes are fascinating.
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It’s still on the market today and they have new flavors now too.
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Wow! Cool idea, GP. I like finding vintage recipes. Best to Carolyn and hugs to you both.
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Thanks for stopping, Teagan! Bon appetite!!
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Now you’ve hit a weak spot… food! I will have to check out some of these recipes. My mother took her bread pudding recipe to heaven with her. I’ve been on a search for something that tastes like I remember. So far, I haven’t found it. I’ve got another recipe to try.
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I’m wishing you loads of luck, John! Let me know how close it comes!!
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Will do!
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Sad indeed, to see those young men lost.
I think I said this before about some of those recipes, but we were still eating very similar things in London, right up to the mid-1960s. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I wonder why we all stopped?
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More choices. Foreign food influences. Better incomes. Microwave ovens. TV cooking shows. Travelling abroad. Leaving the parental home. So many factors, it’s hard to pick one. 🙂
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🙂
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Some of these sound quite good! I will have to check them out. Thanks!
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Let us know how they turn out!!
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Thanks for these. I did visit her page to thank her!
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Much appreciated!
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Thanks for the recipes.
The SPAM cartoon is hilarious!
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Hey – we’ve GOT to have Spam represented somehow, eh?!! 🙂
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Great list. I might try to do the Irish Soda Bread. Remind me of an older Irish lady in NY who baked the best Irish Soda Bread I’ve tasted. Salute to those marines!
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Thanks for such a nice visit, Rose.
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Thanks for the share GP. I will try the eggless pancake as it looks easy for a novice like me in the cooking department 😉
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Many of them are quite simple – they couldn’t afford to be extravagant.
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True…times were hard then.
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Best of luck – let me know how it turns out!
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Will do!!👍Have a great weekend ahead😊
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The youngest of those guys was twenty-one. They are so young, who pick up the tab on behalf of the rest of us. Thank you for remembering them, GP.
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I considerate it a duty to honor them.
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Really interesting. Thanks for posting!
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Thank you.
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Rest in Peace, Marines ❤
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Thank you for honoring the Salutes, Will.
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This hits a little close to home. One of the guys I work with is a family friend of LTCOL Hermann’s parents.
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Please convey our deepest sympathies. The world lost 6 heroes that day.
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My mouth is watering, GP! The potato and cheese bake sounds yummy! I love cheese. 🙂
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Doesn’t it – it’s going to be a long shopping list for me this week!! 🙂
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Excellent !
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I am continually finding ‘Depression Era’ people 100 years old and older – so there must be something to it.
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:-O Yow– I guess so. 😀
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Both of my grandmothers used some of these, or similar wartime recipes throughout their lives. Today’s recipes bring back fond memories.
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Glad to hear it. I can hear both my parents’ voices when they told me about “back then” as I read through this list too.
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I appreciate you sharing.
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Thank you, Ian. I think your readers will enjoy this post!
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