Home Front – Wartime Recipes (3)

Mar 28

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From: The 1940’s Experiment .

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

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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

 

About GP

Everett Smith served with the Headquarters Company, 187th Regiment, 11th A/B Division during WWII. This site is in tribute to my father, "Smitty." GP is a member of the 11th Airborne Association. Member # 4511 and extremely proud of that fact!

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  1. koolkosherkitchen | April 6, 2019 at 10:57 PM

    Thank you for sharing these amazing recipes, GP. I am sharing your post with my readers.
    P.S. Kale is delicious, if used the right way. Trust me on this!

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  2. koolkosherkitchen | April 6, 2019 at 10:53 PM

    Reblogged this on koolkosherkitchen and commented:
    This is what you can do, Beautiful People, when you have very little to do it with – amazing recipes!

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  3. Jeanne Bryan Insalaco | April 3, 2019 at 11:12 AM

    I so enjoyed this post and the site of the 1940’s recipes. Although they aren’t familiar to me – English I assume – very interesting! My mother in law often made a potato pie which I’ve blogged before – I assume that was something learned from her mom to make ends meet. Her sister would fry bread balls – using same mixture as for meatballs but adding some Italian bread which had slightly been soaked in milk. They tasted like meatballs – it was very funny the first time I heard her say she was making them. Said her mother made them when they had no meat

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  4. Lloyd Marken | April 2, 2019 at 11:22 PM

    This could come in handy.

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  6. natuurfreak2 | March 31, 2019 at 8:00 PM

    Heel leuk om eens tussen deze recepten te verdwalen

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  7. seaangel4444 | March 31, 2019 at 5:32 PM

    What a fantastic list! I find it fascinating! The “Bubble & Squeak” is actually one that I’ve heard about! I’m going to give some of these a try! Thank you so much for posting! Cher xo

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  8. Prior... | March 31, 2019 at 4:24 PM

    great recipes and laughing with the feminine touch comic
    🙂

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  9. The Science Witch | March 30, 2019 at 10:01 PM

    omg thank you so much!!! i had quite a collection of vintage cookbooks and sundry from this era, including some hand-written recipes from my granny that she had copied down from her husband, who was a cook in the army (i think it was the army) during ww2. i STILL make my mac and cheese from that recipe. i lost it all in a house fire. some of those recipes we ate growing up because we were so poor, and it makes me cringe just reading the titles, but some of them we never made and i have no idea why because they are REALLY GOOD. some of them need to STAY BURIED along with the black market horse meat and the gutter vegetables the jews had to scrounge in the warsaw ghettos. because ew. beef and potted prunes is just gross. super gross. i am putting this page in my bookmarks along with the other vintage sites. period food is kind of my shtick lol.

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    • GP Cox | March 31, 2019 at 6:15 AM

      I’m happy you can use some of the recipes, I remember my mother making a few because she had her own mother’s cookbook. I have no idea what happened to book, but I wish I had it!!

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  10. Sheryl | March 30, 2019 at 9:58 PM

    Thanks for sharing the links to the wartime recipes. I really enjoyed exploring looking at the recipes – many of them actually look very tasty.

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    • GP Cox | March 31, 2019 at 6:12 AM

      They really do, don’t they?! I know I’ll be trying some. Like with your site, those people ate well, yet they didn’t become overweight as we do today.

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  11. Curt Mekemson | March 30, 2019 at 7:27 PM

    I went searching though the list, G, thinking that some of those recipes would have been left over for my consumption in the post war years. Beyond corned beef and cabbage, most of my memories removed around desserts. 🙂 No surprise there, I guess. –Curt

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  13. bookdiva | March 30, 2019 at 3:24 PM

    I enjoyed browsing some of the recipes. I remember my mother making some of them! 🙂

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  14. OIKOS™-Publishing | March 29, 2019 at 10:56 PM

    Thank you very much for the great recipe list, Carolyn! Also to you GP for reposting. Remembering our military EPA i wish we had some of these recipes. 😉 Michael

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  15. valeriedavies | March 29, 2019 at 6:44 PM

    Fascinating… apart from horrors like dried egg, and not enough butter, recipes like the loaf were actually delicious., though none of us got fat in those days.
    Dripping from the tiny Sunday roasts, and any other baked meat, like a Christmas chicken or goose was delicious with salt and pepper on that lovely warm bread !

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  16. bereavedandbeingasingleparent | March 29, 2019 at 5:24 PM

    I remember my mum talking about the rationing recipes, great to find these.

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  18. renxkyoko | March 29, 2019 at 8:41 AM

    I just cooked corned beef cabbage a few days ago. We bought about 6 corned beef which were on sale , right after St.Patrick’s Day.

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  20. pvcann | March 29, 2019 at 4:46 AM

    My parents talked about the desperation for meat in England and the result was the black market which also specialised in horse meat too.

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  21. jfwknifton | March 29, 2019 at 4:21 AM

    Referring to one of the cartoons, Churchill did appoint Lord Beaverbrooke as his Minister of Aircraft Production from May 1940-1941. He was a man who got things done, unlike a lot of the British companies who, at the beginning of the war, were dreadfully slow at actually producing aircraft in any numbers.
    We’ve tried Woolton pie which was pretty good, and also pastry made from potatoes which was wonderful. It would have filled a lumberjack who hadn’t eaten for a week.
    If anybody wants to lose weight, then one guaranteed method is to follow the British wartime rationing regime. Everybody seems agreed that it was also the healthiest diet for the British since caveman days.

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  22. Kristi Ann | March 29, 2019 at 2:10 AM

    Wow, great recipes Above!! Yikes, now I am hungry again!! LOL!!

    Love Always and Shalom, YSIC \o/

    Kristi Ann

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  23. In My Cluttered Attic | March 29, 2019 at 12:02 AM

    This proves they truly were The Greatest Generation.

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  24. John Purvis | March 28, 2019 at 9:38 PM

    Reblogged this on John's Notes and commented:
    WWII – I have reblogged two prior posts with WWII era recipes. I have always thought that seeing how they had to cook with the wartime rationing was interesting.

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  25. ktz2 | March 28, 2019 at 9:37 PM

    What was a necessity in the kitchens of the war years of the 40s carried over somewhat to the 1950s, I think partly because the adults in the 50s were children of the Depression.

    My mom had the 1940s Betty Crocker cookbook with a number of the ‘mock’ style recipes, the substitutions. As an adult I suddenly realized why my mom, and my friends’, had been kinda cranky about fixing dinner back then. There really wasn’t much ‘take-out’ then, and no prepared meals to pop into the microwave. I remember my mom being annoyed a lot around dinnertime, because it was so labor-intensive.

    We have it easy nowdays… let’s just get a pizza or Chinese–delivered to the house !

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    • GP Cox | March 29, 2019 at 6:46 AM

      Yes, we do have it easy these days. My mom used the pressure cooker a lot so that she could make something tasty and tender out of cheap cuts of meat. Lately, culinary ads talk like the pressure cooker is a new item!

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  27. Onisha Ellis | March 28, 2019 at 6:48 PM

    Reblogged this on Old Things R New and commented:
    I didn’t have time to write a blog today so was pleased to come across this blog.

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  28. doesitevenmatter3 | March 28, 2019 at 5:40 PM

    How wonderful! Thank you for sharing this, GP! Great site, great recipes, great idea! 🙂
    When I was growing up (in the 1960’s and 1970’s) my mom actually made some of these recipes.
    I went by Carolyn’s site and left a comment. Always happy and surprised to meet another Carolyn. I’ve met so few in my life. 🙂
    Oh, and The Feminine Touch made me snort-laugh! That’s something I would’ve done! 😮 😛
    HUGS,
    Carolyn (just another Carolyn 😀 )

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  29. M.B. Henry | March 28, 2019 at 5:29 PM

    Lentil sausages! That sounds very interesting indeed. These are always fun to read through! 🙂

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  30. Amy | March 28, 2019 at 3:54 PM

    None of these are familiar to me, but some sound intriguing.

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  31. John W. Howell | March 28, 2019 at 3:08 PM

    Some tasty sounding recipes, GP. Bubble and squeak looks like a winner.

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  32. Nika | March 28, 2019 at 11:59 AM

    I love chocolate and also curry (but not together!). Yum 😋 Bravo for these recipes! 🎊🎉🎈 Thank you for sharing, my dear friend. ♥️ 💜 ❤️

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  33. jcalberta | March 28, 2019 at 11:15 AM

    Those Wartime recipes became family favorites in our place. Not bad at all!

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  34. Pit | March 28, 2019 at 10:56 AM

    One wartime “recipe” I know my mother used to tell about was brewing coffee fromroasted breadcrumbs.

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  36. Jacqui Murray | March 28, 2019 at 10:48 AM

    What a great list. I’m saving this for history students.

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  37. DC Gilbert | March 28, 2019 at 10:26 AM

    Ahh! More vintage deliciousness!

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  38. fragglerocking | March 28, 2019 at 9:58 AM

    We’d all best bookmark these, will need them in times to come!

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  39. SCLMRose | March 28, 2019 at 9:51 AM

    Since my family loves anything chocolate, I’m going to try #61. I just made Geman Chocolate cake the other day. This will be next.

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  40. usathroughoureyes | March 28, 2019 at 9:40 AM

    The “jam sauce” would go nice on ice cream. Bet they didn’t have ice cream at that moment though.

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  41. Dan Antion | March 28, 2019 at 9:19 AM

    And today, people can’t seem to survive without all the ingredients being drop-shipped to them…

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  42. Jet Eliot | March 28, 2019 at 8:59 AM

    I enjoyed this list of old-time recipes, GP. Carolyn’s project is creative and impressive. I took a look at Apple Brown Betty, because I heard my parents talk fondly of it. Stale bread, no eggs, no milk. Really drives home the war effort.

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  44. ksbeth | March 28, 2019 at 8:28 AM

    i’ve heard my parents talk about some of these – thanks for sharing. my dad said he used to eat ketchup sandwiches. ketchup on white bread.

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  46. equipsblog | March 28, 2019 at 8:06 AM

    Recipes look good. The cartoons are a hoot. They obviously predate the Internet….

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  47. Jeff Groves | March 28, 2019 at 7:51 AM

    The cartoon about the newspaper editors still has relevance today, if anything even more so!

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  48. beetleypete | March 28, 2019 at 6:25 AM

    Thanks to you both for the recipes, GP. I will bookmark the page to come back and check them out. They might remind me of what I was still eating as a child, some years after the war ended. 🙂
    Best wishes, Pete.

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  49. CARL R D'Agostino | March 28, 2019 at 6:17 AM

    At mother’s Sicilian household “pasta e alzati” (pasta and get up) was often served. Macaroni and that’s all !

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  50. GP Cox | March 28, 2019 at 1:46 PM

    Much appreciated!!

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