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A discussion about rationing at Coggeshall Library prompted this collection of memories about food…….

Dried egg, there was a real knack to scrambling this
Passing round a jug with milk and a fork, everyone taking a turn to beat the milk and pass it on and ending up with a tiny knob of butter
Doing the same with a jar with milk, shaking it and passing on to the next person and ending up with butter
Substituting sweets with carrot sticks, the sweet centre of cabbage stalks and even raw sprouts! Dipping raw rhubarb into eggcups of sugar
Pickled eggs in isinglass. When hens were laying we would pickle the extra eggs and at Christmas we would be disappointed to find that they had gone rotten.
Using cans of oil from the American troops to fry up parsnip chips
Frying bread in lard and putting jam on it
Eating bread and dripping with salt on top at nursery school
Lovely beef dripping with jelly on the top

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