Wartime Ration Diet
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siglinde99I have been reading "Wartime Recipes From the Maritimes, 1939-1945" by Devonna Edwards. I wonder if I could follow it for a month.
4 pats of butter per week (British ration, as the book doesn't give the Canadian ration)
Bacon or other meat drippings (though most should be collected to make glycerine for explosives)
No margarine (not allowed for sale until the late 1940s)
Eggs - not rationed but sometimes in short supply
Cheese from Canada - not rationed, but European cheeses disappeared and the Canadian cheese industry was in its infancy
Meat and poultry - 2 lb per week, with cheaper cuts of meat encouraged. Variety meats such as liver and kidneys were not rationed.
Lots of lobster, plus mackerel, flounder, some salmon. Other fish such as haddock, halibut cod, shrimp, oysters and clams also appear in recipes. There does not appear to have been any fish rationing, though canned tuna and salmon disappeared from shelves.
Whatever vegetables I can grow in my garden, plus things like rose hips, dandelion greens, and braised cauliflower leaves (tastes like Brussels sprouts and cabbage - yum!). That would mean corn, tomatoes, potatoes, turnips, mushrooms, cabbage, onions, squash, beans, beets, celery, cucumber and radishes
Gelatin - for salads, pies, as filler to stretch my butter ration (or not).
Pasta and beans (though not terribly popular until the 1960s), oatmeal, barley
12 oz sugar (must be used for all cookies, salad dressings, mayonnaise, jams) but extra sugar for canning season. Molasses, honey, and sweetened condensed milk was available; molasses and honey don't appear to have been rationed, and the milk may not have been. Maple syrup was not rationed.
Apples, blueberries, cranberries, raspberries, strawberries, rhubarb.
Flour
1 pint of hard spirits, 1 quart of wine or 12 quarts of beer every two weeks (I think for adults only).
1 oz of tea or 4 oz of coffee per week (teenagers and adults only).
I would need to cook larger dishes and reuse all my leftovers, which wouldn't be a hardship as I do that already.
I think I could live with this diet. Well, maybe not the wouthern rice and peanut loaf, topped with hardboiled eggs and cheese sauce...
4 pats of butter per week (British ration, as the book doesn't give the Canadian ration)
Bacon or other meat drippings (though most should be collected to make glycerine for explosives)
No margarine (not allowed for sale until the late 1940s)
Eggs - not rationed but sometimes in short supply
Cheese from Canada - not rationed, but European cheeses disappeared and the Canadian cheese industry was in its infancy
Meat and poultry - 2 lb per week, with cheaper cuts of meat encouraged. Variety meats such as liver and kidneys were not rationed.
Lots of lobster, plus mackerel, flounder, some salmon. Other fish such as haddock, halibut cod, shrimp, oysters and clams also appear in recipes. There does not appear to have been any fish rationing, though canned tuna and salmon disappeared from shelves.
Whatever vegetables I can grow in my garden, plus things like rose hips, dandelion greens, and braised cauliflower leaves (tastes like Brussels sprouts and cabbage - yum!). That would mean corn, tomatoes, potatoes, turnips, mushrooms, cabbage, onions, squash, beans, beets, celery, cucumber and radishes
Gelatin - for salads, pies, as filler to stretch my butter ration (or not).
Pasta and beans (though not terribly popular until the 1960s), oatmeal, barley
12 oz sugar (must be used for all cookies, salad dressings, mayonnaise, jams) but extra sugar for canning season. Molasses, honey, and sweetened condensed milk was available; molasses and honey don't appear to have been rationed, and the milk may not have been. Maple syrup was not rationed.
Apples, blueberries, cranberries, raspberries, strawberries, rhubarb.
Flour
1 pint of hard spirits, 1 quart of wine or 12 quarts of beer every two weeks (I think for adults only).
1 oz of tea or 4 oz of coffee per week (teenagers and adults only).
I would need to cook larger dishes and reuse all my leftovers, which wouldn't be a hardship as I do that already.
I think I could live with this diet. Well, maybe not the wouthern rice and peanut loaf, topped with hardboiled eggs and cheese sauce...
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very nice keep it up
Date: 2012-08-06 09:28 am (UTC)