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I work at a primary school in year 4 and we are learning about world war 2-when the children have finished their topics on it we are going to organise a victory party for them providing food that was eaten in the 1940's-now, because I am soooooooo young I do not know what was avaialble then-any ideas please?
thanks
Angie -not around during world war 2 but looks as if she was !!

I have several books of recipes because my husband's class did the same theme several years ago and we bought some recipe books. Send me a PM and I'll e-mail you some

Sue

Hi Sue how strange I've just replied to your other thread!!!
I will pm you Sue thanks that would be great!
Angiexx

ooh spam-thats making a comeback isnt it!

I remember spam fritters my mum used to make-yuk!
Angie xx

lol christine!
I can remember sneaking a spoonful of cocoa powder to try and nearly choked to death-see what happens when we do things we 're not supposed to do!
Angie xx

Hi Christine ,that reminds me of someone I worked with who got his tie caught in a shredder and he had to shout for help cos he couldnt reach the switch to turn of the machine,someone had to cut his tie off to "save "him,wasnt funny but we ended up laughing hysterically at him.
Do you mean those little animal bars of chocolate?
Angie xx

Hi George

perhaps I could go to school with a pigs head-that would scare the children!

I think you can still get dried egg cant you?
Angie xx

I remember........

Always porridge first thing in the morning

Rabbit Stew,

Pearl Barley and vegetables

All kinds of vegetable soup/broth eaten in deep bowls with stottie bread

Fish of all kinds

Bread with hot milk

Banana sandwiches (mams had to queue for fruit)

Will never know how my Mam managed to feed the family when rationed, the women were marvels!!

ooh banana sandwiches would be good Mau!
Christine pmsl-you've certainly had some experiences havent you-do you still eat cherry cakes!
Angie xx

some great food.
don't know much myself as was too young but, sounds great just wanted to wish you good luck with it.
catherine
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Jill

We all loved dripping on bread sprinkled with loads of salt..........delicious! lol

No bananas during the war. I remember my 1st banana I thought it would be crisp like an apple and took a bite- got a shock when I found it was soft.

Mum used to make apple sandwiches thinly sliced on bread, my favorite one were condensed milk on bread lovely!

If it is a WW2 victory party,you can't have banana sandwiches,as we didn't see bananas till 1947.
The fruit we had was what was grown in this country.....apples, pears,all the berries that we could pick.

My mum used to get sugar instead of jam and we made our own jams as the ration was so small.

I remember our victory party,and all the neighbours brought out something.Mum made fairy cakes,with flour ,dried egg,sugar and a bit of marg.She cut off the tops and put some butter cream (marg) on top,cut the sliced bit in half and made wings.
Meat paste sandwiches.We used to get meat paste from the local bakers who displayed it in a dish with a sort of fatty crust on,and we bought it by the ounce.
Salami.We had tomatoes as we grew them.
Cornflake cakes,not made with melted chocolate like we have now,but with a mixture of cocoa and milk powder and some sort of setting agent.

Minto sweets were made with dried milk and peppermint oil and rolled up and cut with scissors into lumps.

Jelly and junket(I bet a lot of you don't know what junket is!!)It is like blancmange.

Can't think of anymore now and going to watch the Restaurant,but that is a start!!

Brenda

My daughter's class are doing WW2 and are having a 1940's day where there is a special school lunch. Menu for the day is
Meat and Potato pie/fishcake/cheese pie with
roast & mash spuds, cabbage & carrots
then jam roly poly or rice pudding
All luch staff will dress up, bunting in hall and 1940's music playing.
Dawn

Well I was talking of rationed food.
Bananas were introduced in 1945 so not too far out!

Love this thread and the memories - my parents had a neighbour who was hunting shooting fishing old boy and we were lucky to have pheasants and rabbits that he prepared ready for cooking. We had chickens in the garden for eggs and eventually eating and in the autumn roosters for fattening up - and said neighbour did the honours so roosters were Christmas Dinner. My mother used to buy pigs head and make brawn and I remember also tripe and onions and breast of lamb which was boned and stuffing mixture put along it and rolled and roasted and sliced so it looked like swiss roll - all the bones were stewed up for broth! Dripping used to be wonderful on toast especially if there was jelly at the bottom of it!

Funniest story though - as i was too young to remember doing it - when I was on back yard sitting up in pram after shopping expedition (2 mile walk to town and up hill coming back) I found the ration of corned beef, a thick chunk for me & my parents and the neighbour called out to my mother - do you know what your girl is eating! Obviously I was hungry. Jx

Had this thread before, but here we go again

Lights........Animal Lungs
Sausages.with 15% meat in them
Spam.....Never eaten it since
Corned beef...Ditto
Braun......in jelly, I loved it
American dried egg..loved it with Baked Beans

My first taste of chicken was Xmas 1944 when the next door neighbour killed two that had stopped laying eggs

Xmas 1943 we had a pigs head to roast courtesy of the same neighbour who kept pigs in an old garage a few miles away..He was allowed one leg, the head, trotters and the Tail.the rest went to the Ministery of Food.

As kids we went collecting anything that was edible,.
Blackberries, Chestnuts, Elderberries, Beech nuts, Cob nuts, Crab Apples, Rose hips, fresh dandelion leaves and many more things.

As for bananas.........I had my first Banana before anyone else in the street only because my older brother came home from India in 1946 and he brought a big bunch with dozens of little green bananas on it,
It was put in the airing cupboard an I was allowed only one a day.

Those were the days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Old Geezer

Mac

Banana's were not available during the war think it was 1946 or 47 when they became available. I can remember eating my first one at Skegness when on holiday which was 47 when I was 6 years old.

My mother made Bread pudding - used up stale bread NB not to be confused with Bread & Butter pudding. Ron

thanks everyone for your contributions-some great ideas to use and thanks for the recipe aswell-must remember not "bananas".
Nite all
Angie xx

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