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WW1 Baked Salmon Ration Recipe – delicious I promise!

In a local village hall – I write ‘a’ because we live between quite a few villages and their halls in no-man’s land, not belonging to any in particular – Granny Dot’s recipes were used for their annual fund-raising event, raising a grand sum of £600! Among the recipes was this which was so popular that I …

War Rationing ‘Salmon Baked’

Posted in - Mrs C.S. Peel's Recipes & Recipes on January 24th 2014 1 Comments baked first world war tinned salmon war rationing

In the First World War food rationing Victory Cookery Book, 1918, Dorothy Peel makes a 340g/12oz. tin of salmon stretch to 4 dishes, feeding a total of up to 12 people. Here I give you the first dish. So good and so simple.

In the words of Granny Dot:

‘Cheese is an important part of these dishes, but must …

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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

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