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WW1 Rationing: Ravioli Maigre

Posted in - Rationing & Recipes on February 20th 2014 0 Comments Mrs C.S. Peel rationing ravioli spinach WW1

I made this for Anna del Conte using Granny Dot‘s war rationing recipe. It was a storm-ridden day so I took it to her house and they were almost blown off the tray as I transferred them from car to kitchen. The photograph below was taken there, so the beautiful plate is hers:

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