UKHOMEFRONTS VERY OWN WW2 RECIPES

A PAGE OF RECIPES & KITCHEN HINTS FROM THE 40s

AS GOOD TODAY AS THEY WERE 65 YEARS AGO

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SEPTEMBER

September brings cooler and more autumnal weather. Darker and damper evenings impel the production of the soup index once more, and we can look a roast joint in the face again with equanimity, if not definite approval.

The happy housewife’s list of vegetables grows, Brussels sprouts are now included and endive, a pleasantly unusual salad.

Chickens are much larger, almost monsters now and with Michaelmas Day, the goose comes into his prime.

Grapes (if you can get some) hang luscious in the greenhouse, tomatoes on their vines. (If you know someone in the country side then try and get some).

Long evenings and idle dinner time propel us towards dessert, and before the cobnuts we shall sample an apple or perhaps one of the first pears, for apples, say Worcester Pearmaim with its crisp sweet flesh, for pears that loveliest of all, a Doyenne du Comice names to conjure with.

Hungrier and less difficult to please, the mere man relapses into his autumnal habits, and the housewife knows that her task will be less exacting for the next six months.

WAR TIME RECIPES

Bean casserole

YOU WILL NEED

1lb butter beans

1oz margarine

3 small onions (one stuck with 2 cloves)

Half a bay leaf

Salt & pepper

Melt the margarine in a casserole, then add the beans and cook gently for 5 minutes.

Add just enough boiling water to cover the beans.

Bring to the boil then bury the onions and bay leaf in the middle of the beans.

Cook gently over a low heat for 2 hours.

Then add the salt & pepper and a little more boiling water and cook for another hour.

Serve in the casserole removing the onions and bay leaf before serving.

This meal will serve 4-6

CHOCOLATE QUEEN PUDDING

YOU WILL NEED

1 level teacup breadcrumbs

Small knob of margarine

1 level tablespoon sugar

½ pint of milk

2 teaspoons of Cocoa

4 tablespoon of jam or jelly

2 dried eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla essence.

Put the breadcrumbs, margarine, and sugar in a basin.

Boil the milk, cocoa and half the jam and pour it over the breadcrumbs, stirring the mixture well together. Cover with a plate and leave half an hour, then beat the eggs thoroughly .spread a tablespoonful of jam over the bottom of a greased pie dish.

Add the eggs and vanilla essence to the breadcrumb mixture.

Pour the pudding into the pie dish and cook for half to three quarters of an hour, in a moderately hot over till it set.
Then spread the remaining jam over the top.

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MORE MILK BETTER HEALTH

DO YOU KNOW

That in an experiment carried out by the Medical Research Council on behalf of the Government, school boys who had one pint of milk a day showed an average annual increase in weight of over 3 lbs.

And an average annual increase in height of over ¾ of an inch compared with those who did not have the extra milk.

That in an experiment carried out by the Scottish Board of Health.

School children receiving additional milk made similar gains in weight and in height in comparison with those who did not have milk.

And That in another experiment in Scotland, 10,000 children who received milk showed that the addition of milk to the diet of school children caused a very definite increase in the rate of growth both in weight and height.

You cannot have better evidence of the value of milk than this.

MOTHERS! ARE YOU GIVING YOUR CHILDREN THE CHANCE OF GROWING HEALTHY AND STRONG BY ALLOWING THEM MILK EVERY DAY?????

THEY CAN HAVE MILK IN SCHOOL EACH DAY.

ASK the teacher to supply it.

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What it cost - 1939

Butter 1/6 (7½p) per lb.

Margarine 6d (2½p) per lb.

Lard 7d (3p) per lb.

Cheddar cheese 10d (4p) per lb.

Danish side bacon 1/6 (7½p) per lb.

Milk 3d (1½p) per pint

Egyptian eggs 8d (3½p) per dozen

CWS Tea-tips 3/- (15p) per lb.

Granulated sugar 4½d (2p) per lb.

Large tin of Lokreel peaches 1/2 (6p)

Nestles cream 6½d (2½p) per small tin

Sweet biscuits 1/- (5p) per lb

Chocolate Fingers 1/9 (8½p) per lb.

Flour 1/7 (8p) per stone (14lb.)

Self raising flour 7½d (3p) per 3lb.

Players cigarettes 10 for 7d (3p)

Woodbine cigarettes 10 for 5d (2p)

St Bruno tobacco 1/2 (6p) per 1oz.

Marcella Elegante cigars 50 for £1/1/6 (£1.07½p).

Danish eggs, large 2/- (10p) per dozen.

Potatoes 1/2 (6p) per stone (14lb).

A live-in maid doing plain cooking could be engaged for £1 per week and a modern furnished bungalow could be rented for 2 to 3 gns (£2.10p to £3.15p) a week, a detached three bed roomed bungalow with a garage and garden cost £550, and a new baby Austin to go into the garage would cost £122.

Barry Noble advertised: Jaffa’s 1d (½p) each –

Nelis pears 4d (1½p) per lb

Newtown’s 4d (1½p) per lb

McIntosh Reds 4d (1½p) per lb

Grapefruit 5 for 4d (1½p)

Lemons ½d (-) each

Cooking Apples 6d (2½p) for 3½lb.

What it cost - 1940

Rowntree's Cocoa, 6d (2½p) per ¼lb. –

Chappie Dog Food, 7d (3p) per tin.

- Black Cat cigarettes, 10 for 6d (2½p).-

- Reckitt's Bath Cubes, 2d (1p) each. - A small bungalow, £250.

- - 10 hp Vauxhall saloon car, £169.

- - Drene Shampoo, 6d (2½p),

- 1/- (5p) and 2/6 (12½p) per bottle.

- - Maltesers, 2d (1p) per packet, 6d (2½p) per box

- - Oxydol sold in 3½d (1½p), 6d (2½p) and 1/- (5p) pkts.

- Wrigley's PK Chewing Gum, 1d (½p) per packet

- - Halls Wine, 3/9 (19p) and 6/6 (32½p)

- per bottle. –

- Celanese ties cost 1/6 (7½p) each.

The Scottish Motor Traction Co Ltd advised that the fare from Glasgow to London was £1/10/- (£1.50p) and the return fare was £2/10/- (£2.50p).

120 Wills 'Gold Flake' cigarettes could be sent to the British Forces in France for 3/9 (18½p).

Seats in London's 'His Majesty's Theatre' to see Stanley Lupino, Florence Desmond & Sally Gray in 'Funny Side Up' cost from 1/6 to 10/6 (7½p to 52½p).

What it cost - 1941

Embassy cigarettes, 10 for 9d (4p)

- Wisdom toothbrushes, 2/5 (12p) each

- Eve toilet soap 3d (1½p) per bar

- Palmolive toilet soap 4d (2p) per bar –

Vim 6d (2½p) per canister

- De Reszke Minor cigarettes, 10 for 6½d (2½p)

- Hartley's headlamp masks 10/6 (52½p) to 12/6 (62½p) each

- Gibbs Dentifrice 7½d (3½p) and 1/3 (6½p) per tin

- Cremola Pudding 3d (1½p) and 6d (2½p) per pkt –

Rowntrees cocoa 5d (2p) per ¼lb and 9½d (3½p) per ½lb

- Cadbury's Ration Chocolate sold at 2½d (1p) per bar, the supply was very limited - and the weight of the bar was not mentioned.

Gamages advertised a shirt (with a spare collar) at 6/11 (35p)

- a pair of flannel trousers at 15/9 (78p)

- a pair of shoes, all leather at 13/9 (68p)

- and a mans self lined raincoat for 1 guinea (that was £1/1/- (£1.05)

What it cost - 1942

This from a Rowntree's advertisement ..

. Brunch chocolate bars, Cream Tablet bars and bars of Plain York chocolate all sold at 2½d (1p) and 2 points each

- the famous fruit gums were no longer sold in tubes or packets but were sold loose at 7d (3p) and 4 points per 4oz.

Other prices quoted were ... Black and White Scotch Whisky £1/3/- (£1.15) per bottle and 12/- (60p) per ½ bottle –

Zixt Hand soap (soap with an abrasive added for dirty and oily hands) 4d (1½p) and 1 coupon per small tablet

- A three hole safety razor plus three razor blades - 'worth their weight in gold' - for 2/10d (14p).

Gamage's advertisement ... Featured a Black Japanned Metal Coal Bunker to hold 2 cwt. cost £1/5/3 (£1.26) plus 3/- (15p) carriage

- Gas Pokers were priced at 5/9 (29p) postage and packing 7d (3p) extra,

- the flexible metal tubing for it cost 5d (2p) per foot extra.

What it cost - 1943

(Taken from various newspapers)

... Strawberry plants 12 for 2/6 (12½p)

- Raspberry canes 12 for 3/6 (17½p)

- Darwin Tulip bulbs 12 for 7/6 (37½p)

- 100 mixed Daffodil, Tulip and Narcissus bulbs for 19/- (95p)

... Cadbury's Red Label drinking chocolate 10d (4p) per ½lb

- Bournville cocoa 9½d (3½p) per ½lb –

- Bourn-Vita 1/5 (7p) per ½lb

- Woodwards Gripe Water 1/5 (7p) per bottle

- Booth's Dry Gin £1/5/3 (£1.26) per bottle and 13/3 (66p) per ½ bottle

- - Wooden soled shoes (which were really clogs) 5 coupons and 12/4 (62p) - One handed storm proof cigarette lighter 6/6 (32½p) plus 6d (2½p) postage and packing.

What it cost - 1944

Oatmeal 3½d (1½p) per lb

- Meat (average price) 1/2 (6p) per lb

- Potatoes 7d (3p) per ½ stone (7lb)

- Sugar 4d (1½p) per lb

- Milk 9d (3½p) per quart –

Cheese 1/1 (5½p) per lb

- Bacon 1/10½ (9p) per lb.

- Eggs large 2/- (10p) per dozen and small 1/9 (8½p) per dozen

- Bread 9d (3½p) per 4lb loaf.

What it cost - 1945

Fairy Soap 6½d (2½p) per tablet –