Home Front – Wartime Recipes (4)
Please thank Carolyn on her website for putting these delicious meals on-line! We often discuss the food our parents and grandparents dined on, despite rationing and wartime, they ate quite well – here are some of the recipes you might want to try out.
Carnation Milk ad, 1942
Recipe 101: Gingernuts
Recipe 102: Eggless christmas pudding
Recipe 103: Leftovers stew
Recipe 104: Vinaigrette dressing
Recipe 105: Apple pudding
Recipe 106: Irish omelette
Recipe 107: Potato cakes
Recipe 108: Glazed turnips (Canadian recipe)
Recipe 109: Carrot roll
Recipe 110: Wartime Bara Brith
Recipe 111: Bread and prune pudding
Recipe 112: Sausage stovies
Recipe 113: Malted loaf
Recipe 114: Toad in the Hole
Recipe 115: Summer berry jam
Recipe 116: Scones
Recipe 117: Mock cream 3
Recipe 118: Vegetable Pie
Recipe 119: Air-raid apple chutney
Recipe 120: Lentil curry
Recipe 121: Haricot bean croquettes
Recipe 122: Leek and Lentil Pie
Recipe 123: Coconut Cream
Recipe 124: Colcannon
Recipe 125: Carrot and Sultana Pudding
Recipe 126: Lemon Syrup Sauce
Recipe 127: Bean and Vegetable Sheperd’s Pie
Recipe 128: Chocolate Layer Cake
Recipe 129: Small Cottage Tea Loaves
Recipe 130: Vinegar Cake
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Military Humor – 
WHO IS THE RHODES SCHOLAR HERE?
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Farewell Salutes –
Leonard Cabral – Westport, CT; US Army, Vietnam, 11th Airborne Division
David Garner – Darlington, SC; US Navy, Lt. (Ret. 24 y.)
Cemetery at Lae, New Guinea, 1945
Eugene E. Lochowicz – Milwaukee, WI; US Army, WWII, ETO, Pfc, A/28/8th Infantry Division, KIA (GER.)
John Moon (103) – Macomb, IL; USMC, WWII, PTO, 5th Marines
Ramon Moreno – El Paso, TX; US Navy, WWII & Korea
Marjorie Farber Ross – Michigan City, IN; Civilian, Curtis Wright Aircraft, engineer apprentice
Eric Taylor – Te Puke, NZ; RNZEF # 63229, WWII, PTO
Walter W. Tobin Jr. – Glen Lake, MI; US Army, Korea, Sgt., 1/32/7/31st RCT, KIA (Chosin Reservoir)
George Wagner – Chicago, IL; USMC, WWII, PTO
Tom Zauche – Grand Arbor, MI; US Army Air Corps, WWII, ETO
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Posted on November 4, 2019, in Home Front, WWII and tagged 1940's, family history, Food, History, Home Front, Military, nostalgia, Recipes, Vintage, WW2, WWII. Bookmark the permalink. 171 Comments.
Pacific Paratrooper 
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Thank you very much!
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This is just so awesome that you do this! These are the Real McCoys of old-family recipes…a gold mine for sure! Thank you!
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My pleasure. I think it’s time we get back to basics, plus it’s fun to see what it was like back then.
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I had a good time browsing these recipes. The blackberry mince pie sounds wonderful.
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If you do try it, please let me know how it turns out!
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Tx for the fun time travel 🙂
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Hope you try a recipe or two!
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Kudos to Carolyn. Thanks for sharing GP. I need to check out that eggless pudding. (I’m allergic to eggs. That takes away most desserts.) Hugs on the wing.
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Jeepers Teagan, an egg allergy would certainly eliminate a bunch of desserts. I hope this recipe works out for you!!
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LOL, you’d think I’d be slim, in my nearly dessert-less life, but alas, no. 😀
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Desserts or no, I still don’t lose weight, so I understand.
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Such a treasure. Thanks for sharing. 🙏🏻
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I hope you enjoy them!
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GP, Thanks so much! What a find you have shared with us. My Uncle and I tried to eat according to the rationing schedule here in the U.S. while we prepared our WWII series of postings. I drank chicorty “coffee” and used mashed bananas in my muffins instead of eggs. Granted some of the substitutions were based on modern vegan/vegetarian cooking but I have to tell you it was very difficult to stick with. Our parents and grandparents HAD to comply with rationing and as it helped the war effort being selfish and complaining was a non-starter. Still, my Mom admitted that her fondness for a buttered roll and hot coffee on Sunday mornings was the result of not having it to enjoy when she was growing up. My Granddad used to give her a glass of milk with just a little coffee and part of his buttered roll when she was little during the Depression.
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What wonderful stories you’ve just now contributed for this post, Emily. Thank you very much!!
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I hope Carolyn the cookbook writer visits and sees what she started!!😳😳!
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And me as well. I’ll hop on over there and ask her to visit.
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Oh gosh!!!! This is amazing that you are sharing. It’s all keeping history alive, no more so than today, Remembrance Sunday here in the UK. Am so pleased you are finding the recreated recipes useful…. C xxxxx
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I follow your site and I love to eat – what could be better? 🙂 Here in the States we have the U.S. Marine Birthday today and what we call Veterans Day tomorrow, it’s the same as your Remembrance Day. Good to see you!
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These recipes are very interesting. A great share.
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Much appreciated, Robbie.
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Some of this have got to be worth a try.
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Yes, they are. Carolyn lost weight while trying out these old meals.
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I’ll bet.
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My grandmother and great grandmother made many of these recipes when I was a kid
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The idea of “making-do” is a lost art.
(Did you see in this morning’s ‘ War History on-line’ about the British kid who thinks children shouldn’t learn about WWII? Talk about millennial pampering!!)
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And what was the reason the kid didn’t think children should learn about WWII?
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It might traumatize them. If anything was going to traumatize kids, it would have been the A-bomb drills we had, hiding under our desks! haha, like that would have kept us safe, eh?!
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If studying WWII will traumatize children, I certainly hope they are never allowed to turn on the television and watch the news.
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haha – how true THAT is!! I knew we were circling the drain the day I heard that an Ivy League school (forget which at the moment), had a room filled with stuffed animals as a “comfort room” for the students who find life tough! Now – isn’t THAT an oxymoron!?!
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For sure!
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Definitely a gift share and really impacts the heart of the season!👍👍💕❤️
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Thank you. I hope you enjoy some of these.
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I was now taking a look at the humour pictures, the military guy….good old times it also reminds me why I have a pretty cool back pain now.
And Bush, like the man but Jesus…. the military guy is pointing to the other direction from where the ex president is looking with the cool binoculars, I prefer for Bush to send me to the ¨danger¨zone than to be my buddy in bad situations, I would be shooting at my own, both pictures had me smiling.
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The question in that picture, is – “Who is the Rhodes scholar?” Actually, Clinton on the left was a Rhodes scholar, but he is also the one who did NOT take the lens caps off the binoculars. 🙂
Been reading your book, Priest.
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I should buy some binoculars myself….
Hey! You read the book? Since it´s all under Prior´s account I have no idea if they buy it who buys it or anything. But I have complete faith in her, that she manages those things, we´ve been emailing about more details.
No kidding, this is exciting. My first reader, appreciate it GP and hope you enjoy it.
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I am the farthest thing from a poet that there can be, but I was going to attempt a review on my post tomorrow after the U.S. Marine Corps Birthday in a ‘Current News’ section. Do you approve?
You were in the Spanish Legion, isn’t that right?
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Yes that’s right, the Legion. In another life as I say.
About the book it does say at the beginning that this is not the typical book for the so called experts of poetry.
By the way if I have the facts right(which is rare) isn’t the USMC birthday on the 10th?
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Yes, the USMC birthday is on the 10th, but our Veterans Day and most of the world have Remembrance/Poppy Day on the 11th and I didn’t want the posts to be too close together – it makes it too difficult for me to answer everyone’s comment and read everyone else’s posts.
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I just read the review, had to laugh when you said something to the effect that I’m down right confusing sometimes, it also happens to me. I confuse myself,….
I truly appreciate that you took the time to read it and thank you very much for the review and the free promotion. Again, I couldn’t be more grateful for this wordpress community and specially for people like you and Prior. Again,thanks a lot.
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I am honored to know you, Priest. No need to thank me.
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To late, I just send you the link to what I posted earlier on. The honor is mine so I had to write about you.
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Mutual admiration, sounds good! AND, we can both thank Prior. Did you know that the picture of my father, Smitty, on the right-side of every one of my posts was put together by Prior!! She a good friend!
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Had no clue obviously, she is certainly a very good person as well as you. You rarely find people like you two as you very well know.
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Thanks.
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I noticed he hadn’t taken off the eye covers! The two of them! Hopeless.
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haha, that’s why it asks (tongue-in-cheek) ‘who’s the Rhodes scholar? I think you’re the only one who noticed.
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I printed out a couple recipes to try from one of the earlier lists and still have not made them. I need to get busy! I hope you find some you want to try.
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Thank you for sharing this. I hope you get to try one or two, you might be surprised.
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We’ll try several of the recipes, GP Cox, starting right at the top with our all-time favourite, the ginger nuts. 🙂 Cooking was not easy in those times, but it created some lovely dishes.
Sending you lots of love and fairy dust from the windy and wet Norfolk coast,
The Fab Four of Cley x
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Fab Four of Cley,
Thank you very much , my dear friends. They certainly knew how to make-do with what was available!
I apologize for the tardy reply, but somehow, after all these years, you ended up in the Spam! I should definitely check in there more often.
GP Cox
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Don’t worry, our dear friend, we know this problem as well.
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Thank you.
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Yum! Cooking must have been very challenging.
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They became inventive instead.
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Exactly! Necessity is the mother of invention.
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These look great, and so many suitable for vegetarians too – I am planning to try potato cakes later.
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They should be good, my mom used to make great ones. Meat was pretty scarce for most people, so yes, most of these recipes do not have meat.
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Our wartime biscuits are known as Anzac Biscuits, mainly because of the strength and longevity when sending overseas, could break your teeth even after a few months soaking in Coffee or hot water……https://www.taste.com.au/recipes/anzac-biscuits/cc4e2031-8b63-48e7-8eff-b2637f472180
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haha, sounds delicious, Ian! I have heard of them, but never had one. I’ll have to print this out!!
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More yummy goodness! Thanks, GP! ❤ 🙂
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My (yum-yum) pleasure!!
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So you’re a bread pudding fan, eh? A café in Galveston has bread pudding French toast on their menu, and believe me — “died and gone to heaven” applies. I loved the recipe list. Now I know what “toad in the hole” is!
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So glad you enjoyed this post. A taste of the “Good Old Days”, eh? 🙂
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GP, I’m not a cook, but these recipes are pretty incredible. Thanks for offering them to your followers. 📚🎶 Christine
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Old recipes have made a comeback along with people looking into their own ancestry and history. Instead of talking about the “good old days”, we can experience part of it.
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I remember having Vinegar cake when I was a kid. Very nice. Never seen it since.
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Well, here you are! Time for good old memories!
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Reblogged this on koolkosherkitchen and commented:
Getting ready for Veterans Day next week, I am honored to share with you, Beautiful People, another installment of the wartime recipes, posted by a fabulous blogger GP Cox.
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As you said, Veterans Day is near and the holidays will be right behind it – so I thought another “Recipes” post was due. Thank you for sharing it.
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Perfect timing! You are very welcome, GP.
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I am sorry I’ve missed so many of your wonderful posts, GP, but isn’t it lucky that I am starting my catching-up with this great post! I am reblogging it, of course.
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I understand, Dolly. It’s impossible sometimes for all of us to be everywhere – Life does have a way of diverting our attention. I Thank you for coming back.
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I was “everywhere” quite literally, GP, and most of the time on the road with no access to internet.
Thank you for understanding, dear friend!
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No problem here, Dolly!! 🙂
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Oooh. Thanks for sharing the recipes, GP. Lots of different things in that list to try. 🙂
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I’ve tried a few of the recipes from my previous 3 ‘recipe’ posts, but not these yet – let know how they turn out.
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Will do. 🙂
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Looks great. But it should not be forgotten that there was not always what had been announced.
I will give Roberta (robbiesinspiration.wordpress.com) a tip for this posting. She has written a book about her own experiences during WWII. Highly recommended!
You won’t believe it, but a few years ago I really had to help a youngster in such things. He had offered a found “Reichsfleischkarte” (card for the receipt of a meat ration) for sale on the Internet. But the Nazis had the Swastika up there everywhere, and so he should be prosecuted for the German bans. He was really not a neo-Nazi, but just not informed. Thank you and best wishes, Michael
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Thank you for telling me, Michael. Sometimes many of go off “half-cocked” (I know a stupid expression) and don’t think before we act.
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Excellent GP. Thank you.
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My pleasure, John.
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Thank you very much, Rick!
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Maybe malted meatloaf was the forerunner to the Impossible Burger.
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You never can tell!! I know of many an invention and product by one name – but my parents had it way back when – just a different name.
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Perfect post as we enter comfort food season! This is great.
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Thank you. I hope you enjoy them.
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Don’t forget mock apple pie made with ritz crackers!
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True, that’s an old staple, eh?!! 🙂
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I have a handwritten recipe card of my grandmother’s for that one!
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That Irish omelette sure looks good.
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I’m ready to try it!! I like making breakfast food for dinner once in a while.
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Fab post, GP! 🙂
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Along with ancestry and history, old food recipes has been very popular. Thanks.
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I am glad to see GP Cox publish another list of recipes from WWII.
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Thank you very much, John.
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These are amazing recipes, and do remind me of dishes my mom prepared, probably beginning with her marriage to my dad, a few weeks after he returned in 1945 after serving in WWII.
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I hope this post brought happy memories back to you, Pam. Thank you for coming by.
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It most certainly did. Brought me right back to my childhood dining table with dad teaching us manners (emphatically) and mom serving fish – always fish – on Fridays (and we weren’t Catholic!)
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I am and yes – always fish on Fridays!! I also remember 2 types of veggies and always some sort of salad on the table. Now that I think about it, I ate better then than now!!
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Except the veggies were canned. Fresh are so much better now. 🙂
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To me, even frozen has it way over canned.
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What a great collection, GP.
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Carolyn did a fantastic job – and she lost weight too!!
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I clicked a few of the recipes. Seems easy to do and delicious. I’ll try a few of them in a few days.
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Let me know how they turn out, Rose. In the past ‘recipe’ posts I’ve tried a few and they worked out quite well.
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Never heard of Toad in a Hole. I’ll definitely do that one. Irish Omelette seems great for lunch. Those desserts are worth a try too. I’ll let you know.
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Thanks, Rose!
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Don’t remember my mother making any of those, G. 🙂 But there were a lot of casseroles. –Curt
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My mom never got off the “making-do” plan of attack, so casseroles and meals similar to these were often on the menu.
Have a great week, Curt!
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I admit, to this day, I am not a particular fan of casseroles, G. 🙂
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haha, you had one too many, eh?!
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🙂
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I looked at some of the recipes. It was interesting to discover that the ingredients reflected the shortage of food items so typical during war times. Butter was replaced by margarine and spices other than pepper and salt were noticeably absent. Yet, I believe we can all learn from these recipes that we can live with a lot less if we have to.
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haha, that is one of the reasons I have done 4 of these posts, Peter. Not just good food, but frugal and healthy.
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This is wonderful, I’m printing this out and passing it around!
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Eat well and enjoy, Hollie!!
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Oh, I will! Thank you GP.
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Anytime, Hollie.
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Apple pudding (#105) sounds like a winner. By the way, have you heard about the new apple variety called Cosmic Crisp? There’s a big marketing push behind it.
Neil Scheinin
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No, I hadn’t heard. Have you tried it, Neil?
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I haven’t seen them in my local markets yet, but I’ll try them when they start appearing.
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I’ll keep a lookout!
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I’ve heard about it, and read a glowing review, but haven’t found it yet. Nothing like a good apple — and that apple pudding’s very close to one my grandmother made.
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Great insight into their day by day experience.
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Frugal and they taste good!! Thanks for dropping in!
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Some of these look pretty good. We often need vegan recipes, I like that some of these are or can be. Thanks, and thanks to Carolyn.
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Let me know if you get to one, Dan. I’ve tried some of the recipes from the past 3 posts, but not this one yet.
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The potato cakes look pretty good. I passed those along to the better half.
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Terrific!
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What perfect timing for me. I’m on the Homefront, my character is signing up for the Red Cross, and they will be sharing wartime recipes in a few pages.
If you haven’t posted Red Cross articles in a while, I’d be obliged to read them.
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I’ll checked it out, Cindy.
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Here’s some news some people didn’t know….
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/07/13/156737801/the-cost-of-free-doughnuts-70-years-of-regret
or this…..who said FDR was surprised by Pearl Harbor?
https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/1999/june/advance-warning-red-cross-connection
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Thank you, GP. The first one made me smirk. But the second one, about the Red Cross had me lifting my brows and muttering “Wow” to the computer screen. Thanks very much for that. If included that info in my story, would I be accused of being a revisionist historian?
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I am continuing to research so that I may do a post on it. So far I have found that many of the veterans will not contribute to the Red Cross because of how much they charge the troops for everything, plus part of the donations go to administration costs, etc. (today’s RC CEO makes 10 million dollars a year). The Salvation Army does not – you donate a dollar, a dollar goes to charity. My father mentioned this a long time ago, but I had forgotten.
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That’s too bad. I was sincerely considering volunteering to the Red Cross. I was aware that many of the big NPO are big money makers and their top dogs have an enviable income. I can’t write off the Red Cross as being “bad” though. They have done too much great work over the decades.
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Is there some info in particular you’re looking for? The Pacific? POW camps?
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Pacific. Yes to the POW. Especially Cabanatuan
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Okay – that’s where I’ll concentrate. Talk soon!
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While reading the history and services of the Red Cross, I copied this line in particular…
“Prisoners regularly received
packages in the European camps but not in the Pacific theater due to the lack of Japanese cooperation”
But I have a lot of books I’m going to go through – let’s see what I come up with…….
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I did read about shipments dropping in goods to the camp (not many because of the quote above) but goods were smuggled in, too. But the book I’m reading, a survivor talks about how much a Red Cross package meant to the prisoners. “Ghost Soldiers”
I just found a book I just bought called “Pure Grit” which is about nurses in the Pacific that became POWs. Have you read it?
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I’ll be back soon with more. I have the Ghost Soldiers, but read it so long ago.
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I found this today.
https://az.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/imwwii/
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Looks good. After all, it is PBS! Did my last one open up ok for you? If not I’ll find a different way to send the info and pictures.
I also found this _____
http://ww2today.com/29th-january-1943-christmas-for-u-s-pows-on-the-philippines
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Nope. It didnt open. 😦
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Okay.
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I hope this opens up okay for you!
https://pacificparatrooper.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/red-cross.docx
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PS. with your talents, Cindy, I’d say volunteer at the USO.
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Nice idea. Not sure how I’d help. I’m too old to sing and dance with young soldiers 😉
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There are many other jobs of which I know you would excel in.
https://www.uso.org/take-action/volunteer
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Ha! You’ve got me covered.
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Mmmmm bread puidding!!! Ages since I’ve had some!
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One of my favorites as well. Enjoy!! Let me know how yours came out!
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I’m afraid that would go straight to my hips GP, no more puddings for me!
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oh well, maybe on of the previous posts about these recipes would have something better.
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What an amazing collection. Many thanks for posting.
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She did a great job – a tasty one too. Thanks for dropping by, Peggy!!
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Always on the lookout for recipes. I cook a lot and have a cooking blog too.
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My Mum always made Bread Pudding, and Toad In The Hole too.
In fact, I had Toad In The Hole last week, but it was shop-bought. And I can still buy Bread Pudding at the local bakery.
Delicious indeed! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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They sure did eat well. Funny you put out the post ‘Of A Certain Age’ sort of on the same line of thought! lol
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🙂 🙂
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Yummy!
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Sure hope so. I tried previous recipes from this site and they sure were good.
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Hopefully, I can persuade my wife to give a few of these a go!
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If you do, let me know how they turn out. I’ve experimented with a few of the previous recipes I posted from her and they were pretty darn good!
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Yum!
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Yes, they are!! Thanks.
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what a wonderful share
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I’ve tried some of her recipes in the previous posts I did and they turned out pretty good. Glad you liked it.
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