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(5) Rabbit Soup, WW1 Rationing

Posted in - Mrs C.S. Peel's Recipes & Rationing & Recipes on February 3rd 2014 0 Comments Mrs C Mrs C S Peel; rabbit soup war rationing

I made this before I made the previous recipe for rabbit stew. So thorough was the use of food during the First World War Rationing period, that the scraps were taken from the bones used for the soup. I took 75g/3oz of meat from the bones which was pretty impressive for meat which may otherwise have ended in …

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