Posts Tagged with: fish head soup

WW1 Rationing: Fish Mock Turtle Soup

A First World War Rationing recipe using a fish head just had to be tried. I have re-jigged it little on insofar as I am encompassing all of the ingredients other than the bones rather than straining the liquid as recommended. Had I used some of the bones it would not be far off a …

Eat meat from happily reared animals, and then you have their permission to really enjoy what you eat. Seconded by my great great grandmother, Dorothy Peel, in her books 100 years ago: ‘To judge by a letter which has appeared in the daily press and from private conversations it would seem that many people think that to abstain from meat on one of two days a week and to limit their total consumption to 2 ½ lb. per head per week is a restriction which may seriously affect their health. To be quite frank, it may affect their greed, but it certainly will not adversely affect their health; indeed, there seems good reason to think that less meat-eating would improve the health of the well-to-do.’ Mrs C.S. Peel, The Eat Less Meat Book, 1917