Recipes, history and other things
Source: The Stork Wartime Cookery Book by Susan Croft (1940) This book was a lovely present from my cast after we finished a production of Lilies on the Land in August, a show about Land Girls. It is full of useful wartime cooking advice including a section on ‘how to save your dinner if air-raids... Continue Reading →
Source: Puddings & Sweets, Ministry of Food War Cookery Leaflet 13 (1944) A couple of my university friends came to visit the week before last. After wrestling with the fact that we’d known each for 20 years, we had a lovely couple of days jaunting around Edinburgh and its environs, including a trip to somewhere... Continue Reading →
Source: Good Eating: A Second Book of War-Time Recipes (1944) I bought beetroot last week to make borscht and had leftovers. This rather imaginative (weird?) little recipe from the height of Second World War rationing seemed to provide an interesting (weird?) way of using it up. The book I took it from is a classic... Continue Reading →
Cabbages and Kings. And Kate 