War Time Recipes

Not blipped for ages, been ill and couldn't be bothered, now back to normal (whatever that is), so have starting blipping again.

Sarah reminded me with her blip of Roy's mums cookery book that I still had some of the original Ministery of Food leaflets. The orange one dates back from April/May 1949 and the green one is May/June 1949. The MoF brought out a series of these to enable houswives to cook nutritious meals with basic ingredients. Wouldn't hurt to re-issue them in the light of the economic climate. They are a lot better than some of the modern cookery books with their complicated recipes and expensive ingredients.The leaflet with the Yorkie on it has recipes for Yorkshire pudding, malt bread, newly wed cake!! This is a simple recipe, probably working on the premis that a new wife wasn't a very good cook. In actual fact this was probably correct as apparently my mum was a useless cook when she first got married. She did improve as the years went on. However, my Aunties Rose and Mary can still just about boil water and they are in their 80's. Most of the recipes used dried egg and dripping instead of marg or butter. Cholesterol levels must have been horrendous, my nan always used dripping or lard for cooking, fried everything, very rarely ate fruit, veg was cooked to death and she lived to a ripe old age. She always bought dirty carrots as they tasted better, never bought sprouts until there had been a frost for the same reason.

I'm off to put my fruit in soak for my xmas cakes.