Posts Tagged with: World War 1 recipes

WW1 Rationing Potato Gateau

I asked my childhood friend Piers Torday for advice on the book I am writing on Granny Dot. Having posted many of her pre and post war recipes which I have adapted slightly where necessary, I had not included in these the rationing recipes but simply added them to the book unadulterated. Piers suggested I …

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