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Rationing coup

I had just left school at 14 when the war started so I stayed at home with my mother and helped her...

Cheese Gravy!

My late Grandma, Ethel Tomlinson, used to make a recipe called cheese gravy then recipe got passed on to...

Wartime Recipe

My Auntie lived at Burghley Park Lodges, Burghley House Stamford. Small tin of sardines in oil Vinegar to...

Evacuees and stew!

We had evacuees staying with us for the whole of the war — the Grandmother and most of the children...

Margaret of Barrow-in-Furness

Because food was rationed her wedding cake was made out of dried eggs and to make it look like a real...

Irish Free State

In the Irish Free State, there were shortages of tea, coffee, oranges and bananas. My Grandfather served in...

Memories of Chesterfield

And the warden knocked on the window because we were supposed to be in blackout, but my mum had left the...

Rationing

Well it was like Christmas in June to myself and two brothers and one sister because we had never seen a...

Mrs Stephens

Mrs Stephens...

Ration Time Haggling

I had plenty of ration books and I'd give this woman, maybe the butter, and she'd give me some...

Living under occupation - home-made beet sugar

But in the corner of our scullery, a scullery was an outside sort of kitchen/utility room, I suppose, we...

Food Rationing

I used to enjoy taking the pigs into the orchard to eat the fallen apples and we became good friends. When...

Rationing

Oranges and lots of things went short in the war... Only kids got oranges but my mum grabbed the peels and...

Fully Fashioned

I never dyed my legs, some did. I never liked the dyed legs....

Rationing

At Christmas time ‘points’ were stored so that we could get dried fruit for Christmas cake. No...

carefull what you pay for!!

The Americans were also a great way to get things, she and her friends would chat up American soldiers at...

Rush of Patriotism

My dad took my friends and I to the movies for my birthday, it was about 11 o'clock but in Hawaii it...

Food from the allotment

My mother had a mincer attached to the table, and once all the bugs and dirt had been washed off,...

I played football with the boys

I remember the food and shortage of food... We had an ordinary street party when war ended — there...

Daily Life Under the Raids

We didn't have a lot to eat, our weekly rations were 1 egg, 2 ozs cheese, 2 ozs bacon, 2 ozs sugar....

A different life in the country

At Easter mum put cochineal so that we had pink boiled eggs for Easter... We children used to sleep in a...

Blue suede shoes

We were in the Air-raid shelter, and the bombs were dropping... You'd have coupons, never mind the...

Good at making something out of nothing

I remember the rationing during the war, the eggs were rationed, tea and sugar — everything was...

A Whale of a Meal

My dad always said emphatically there was no way he'd be eating whale meat. It tasted a bit fishy but...

Not a Bad War Foodwise

Did you, or your mum, come up with any innovative recipes to make the food more tasty. By leaving a short...

Blackcurrant Jam

We saved our sugar ration up and my aunt said she would make some jam... She left it to cool on the...