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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 …
WW1 Rationing – Maize Woodcock
In The Victory Cooking Book, 1918, this is called Maize Woodcock. Does anyone have any insight into why?! To interpret this title, it is scrambled eggs on polenta with anchovy. Thinly sliced polenta, toasted on a griddle pan, with lightly scrambled eggs topped with anchovy and a little parsley or chives is more substantial than using toast, …
WW1 Rationing: Nouilles au Gratin (Pasta with Cheese Sauce)
Familiar in the combination of pasta and cheese, but not in its name; nouilles is french for noodle. So perhaps Granny Dot’s pasta recipe came from France? I need to investigate further.
In the words of Granny Dot:
‘Ingredients. – 3 oz. nouilles, salt, boiling water, 1 oz. of margarine, half a pint of hot milk, …
WW1 Rationing: Italian Paste
If someone had asked me to have a guess at what First World War Rationing recipes included, on my list would not have been pasta. However, here it is, almost as tasty as what we are used to. Egg is replaced with water at times due in part to their being rationed. Anna del Conte says that …
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 …