Home Front – Wartime Recipes (3)
We discussed rationing and we’ve discussed just how well our parents and grandparents ate – despite the rationing and time of war when all the “good” stuff was going overseas to the troops! So …. as promised, here are some more of the wonderful recipes from the 1940’s.
Please thank Carolyn on her website for putting these delicious meals on-line!
Recipe 61: Chocolate biscuits & chocolate spread
Recipe 62: Curried potatoes
Recipe 63: Vegetable pasties
Recipe 64: Wheatmeal pastry
Recipe 65: Homemade croutons
Recipe 66: Quick vegetable soup
Recipe 67: Fruit Shortcake
Recipe 68: Cheese potatoes
Recipe 69: Lentil sausages
Recipe 70: Root vegetable soup
Recipe 71: Sausage rolls
Recipe 72: Eggless ginger cake
Bubble n’ squeak #78
Recipe 73: Mock duck
Recipe 74: Cheese sauce
Recipe 75: Duke pudding
Recipe 76: Potato scones
Recipe 77: Cheese, tomato and potato loaf/pie
Recipe 78: Bubble and squeak
Recipe 79: Belted leeks
Recipe 80: Lord Woolton Pie- Version 2
Recipe 81: Beef and prune hotpot
Recipe 82: Prune flan
Recipe 83: Butter making him-front style
Recipe 84: Mock apricot flan
Recipe 85: Corned beef with cabbage
Recipe 86: Oatmeal pastry
Apple brown Betty # 90
Recipe 87: Gingerbread men
Recipe 88: Carolyn’s mushroom gravy
Recipe 89: Jam sauce
Recipe 90: Brown Betty
Recipe 91: Middleton medley
Recipe 92: Rolled oat macaroons
Recipe 93: Anzac biscuits
Recipe 94: Beef or whalemeat hamburgers
Recipe 95: Lentil soup
Recipe 96: Welsh claypot loaves
Recipe 97: Chocolate oat cakes
Recipe 98: Wartime berry shortbread
Recipe 99: Oatmeal soup
Recipe 100: Mock marzipan
Click on images to enlarge.
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Home Front Humor –
“I understand you’ve been riveting in your name and address.”
“Father, would not the best way to conduct the war be to let the editors of the newspaper take charge of it?”
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Farewell Salutes –
John Albert – So. Greensburg, PA; US Navy, WWII, air patrol
Phillip Baker – San Marcos, TX; US Army Pvt., 101st Airborne Division
The Old Guard
George Carter – Crete, IL; US Navy, WWII & Korea, SeaBee
George Ebersohl – Madison, WI; US Army, WWII, ETO, medic
Hugh Ferris – Muncie, IN; US Army, WWII, ETO, 99th Infantry
Ambrose Lopez – CO; US Navy, WWII, PTO, USS Wake Island
Robert Parnell – Hampshire, ENG; British Army, WWII, ETO, 6th Airborne Division
James Swafford – Glencoe, AL; US Army, WWII, Purple Heart
Floyd Totten – Umatilla, FL; US Army, Korea, Co. B/187th RCT
Louis Ventura – Turlock, CA; US Army Air Corps, WWII, PTO, 188th/11th Airborne Division
Posted on March 28, 2019, in Home Front, WWII and tagged 1940's, England, History, Home Front, nostalgia, Recipes, USA, veterans, Vintage, WW2, WWII. Bookmark the permalink. 167 Comments.
Pacific Paratrooper 
I still haven’t made any of these, but I plan to when things settle down a little more around here!
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They will still be around when you get the time, Robbye. Thank you for being interested!
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I enjoy all of your posts. I know I’ve shared before how much I appreciate what you are doing to keep such an important part of history alive, and I do.
I also love to cook and bake, and seeing the stories of rationing make me thankful we don’t have to contend with that issue today.
Blessings~
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Thank you very much, Robbye!
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You are very welcome!
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Great post to share gp, thanks for the list of recipes, I will pass them on to my Minister for War for her appraisal.
Cheers.
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Perhaps she could share her South American recipes in trade.
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In oorlogstijd met veel waren mensen heel creatiefschaarse
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They did the best they could, yet they enjoyed it and didn’t even gain weight!! (my main problem!)
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More yummy goodness! I think our grandparents were really creative in the kitchen. 🙂 Thanks for all this goodness, GP! ❤
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I what gets me is – they were never overweight!! We here in their future are doing something wrong, at least I am!!
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There are probably myriad answers for that, lol. 😀 I blame the increase in sugar, and HFSC, myself. 🙂
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In wartime it is hard finding the enough for meal.
As I wrote in my book “Soldierfood Amerika” how diner and food can change wars. In this time I looked a lot about wartime recipes.
Have you ever had a look on food of formerly wars like the Independence War? You will find a lot of interesting recipes.
So let me say – very great article.
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That would be in the same train of thought of being frugal and making do with what you have – something today’s generation has trouble understanding. Of course I would find that interesting.
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you´re right.
Todays kids have problems to understand. Most never saw war, in Europe, a lot kids are not interested in the past. That made me sad.
So blogs like yours are necessary holding history in memory.
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Thank you very much.
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Thanks for your like of my post, “Israel 10 – Exodus 15-24;” you are very kind.
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Sure thing.
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Thanks
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