The food that won us the war: The weird and wonderful ration-book dishes that helped Britain to vict

Cooking and washing without electricity, recycling everything from paperclips to bones, and eating whale meat and offal. This was the reality of life for women struggling to feed and clothe their families on paltry rations during the years of Blitz-time Britain.


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Wow, what an interesting article, I have a crazy wartime cookbook here, which includes recipes using squirrels, hedgehogs and garden birds!

Just to make it quite clear, I have not tried any of these recipes, just the homefront vegetarian ones!

 

I too got a wartime cook book, few of recipes not bad but most are bland.

 

All I know if theres ever a War I'm with the Drill Instructor, Is that two or 3 barbecues going at the same Time definitely wont starve around you.

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I heard Rat was also eaten by many

 

Spammity Spam....wonderful spam!

I recall somebody on this forum stating that they did not really understand that particular Python sketch until they saw a wartime cookbook. Spam with everything!

Spam, spam, spam ,spam!

 

One must remember that SPAM was one of the few food items never rationed in Britain, that carrots, cabbage, fish, and (I think) bread. I would suppose that if SPAM was the only meat option, it did get used in everything; including places it probably didn't belong!

If I'm not mistaken bread wasn't rationed until after the war was over actually, and that was to supply the Germans in the British zone with food stuffs since they were British responibility.

 

spam Fritters!!! yuk!!! World War 2 - food facts - History cookbook - Cookit!

 

I just got done reading about SPAM somewhere on the net, and while the Hormel company produced the original; many other packing companies got in the "tinned meat" game during the war itself.

Only Hormel was exported to the British and other allied nations, it is possible that the "canned/tinned meat" product sent to the US military was made at non-Hormel plants, and included the less "palatable" portions of the hog, such as snouts, ears, and tongues. Where SPAM was Shoulder Pork and hAM, it was really filet mignon compared to the competitors product.

It is possible that GIs never had real SPAM in the field during WW2, but the poor/cheaper replicas and the name got connected to the pre-cooked, packaged, spiced pork product no matter the source. Hormel was putting out something like 10-15 million tins of SPAM a week, but that went to the civilian market and Lend-Lease aid for the most part, not the US military.

I don't know about SPAM fritters for sure, I'm not that big a fan of deep fried breaded meats, but some of the other SPAM recipes sound kind of tasty actually. Another Hormel product that I would have liked to have tried was the Tushenko made for the Red Army specifically. That appears to be a beef brisket, onions, garlic, salt, black pepper, and pork blend. I would think that would make for a good base meat for a stew or soup.

 

At least UK had food (could've been worse).

I believe rations quality played a big role in Stalingrad battle....

 

From that time must be the Lamb roast with peppermint sauce, brrrh!

Sorry for the cheap joke, but i couldn´t resist.

Regards

Ulrich

 

I had my grandmothers rationbook, il take a picture and post it on here; if you like.

 

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