
Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member | 1 of 63 Fri 26th Oct 2012 5:03pm Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:3479 I think perhaps this one is for the ladies of the older generation.
I have entered this topic in this thread because it was most likely at this time when POWDERED EGG was introduced. Does anyone remember powdered egg. It was on the shelves in little tins and according to my Mum I loved it. Don't know what the chickens thought about it though !! ![]() |
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DBC Nottinghamshire All posts by this member | 2 of 63 Fri 26th Oct 2012 7:12pm Member: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:168 Have you been watching "Wartime Farm" on BBC2. There was lots on there about food from that era, including powdered egg. |
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anne coventry All posts by this member | 3 of 63 Fri 26th Oct 2012 8:17pm Member: Joined Feb 2012 Total posts:288 My dad got really fed up of baked beans in the war. He refused to eat them for the rest of his life! ![]() |
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LesMac Coventry All posts by this member | 4 of 63 Sat 27th Oct 2012 10:34am Member: Joined Dec 2011 Total posts:252 Powdered egg. I loved it and would buy it now if I could get it. As for the other eggs, the ones in shells, they were hard to get but when we did get them it was common to find a few rotten ones. It was my job to take them back to the shop for replacement. Mum would test them by floating them in water, the floaters went back to the shop. I remember the whale steaks, unrationed meat but I wasn't too fond of that. I think we also ate horse meat. My uncle in Preston was a horse slaughterer and I recall him taking dead horses to London. He would occasionally stop to pick me up for the ride. |
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PhilipInCoventry Holbrooks All posts by this member | 5 of 63 Sat 27th Oct 2012 10:49am Moderator: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:4248 Hello ![]() ![]() |
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 6 of 63 Sat 27th Oct 2012 12:07pm Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2975 On 27th Oct 2012 10:34am, LesMac said:
I remember the whale steaks, unrationed meat but I wasn't too fond of that. I think we also ate horse meat.
I believe fish & chips were the only hot food not subject to rationing during the war?
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Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member Thread starter | 7 of 63 Sat 27th Oct 2012 4:41pm Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:3479 My father kept a few ducks in the back garden in Tile Hill but they use to go walkabout. He worked at the Standard, Banner Lane,
and when he came home he used to ask me to count the ducks. I am sure they got less and less from what I can remember.
I will never eat a duck egg ever. ![]() ![]() |
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LesMac Coventry All posts by this member | 8 of 63 Sat 27th Oct 2012 4:45pm Member: Joined Dec 2011 Total posts:252 You are correct Dutchman. Plenty of fish and chips so no one went hungry. A large portion of chips wrapped in newspaper cost three pence and I believe cod to go with it was seven or eight pence. So you could get a good meal for about a bob (shilling). We were told that potatoes were very healthy food and I still remember the Mr Spud adverts .... Les |
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Dreamtime Perth Western Australia All posts by this member Thread starter | 9 of 63 Sat 27th Oct 2012 5:00pm Member: Joined Jan 2010 Total posts:3479 You could do a hundred things with a spud according to my mum. Just goes to show how spoilt we are today. Back then it was either fish paste or meat paste for tea, oh, or a jam buttie/butty (whichever) and I know mushy peas was a favourite (as mentioned on the forum before). If you saw a line of housewives you could guess there were bananas at the front of it. When mum ran the shop coffee was kept under the counter only for the regular customers ![]() ![]() |
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argon New Milton All posts by this member | 10 of 63 Sat 27th Oct 2012 6:41pm Member: Joined Jun 2016 Total posts:367 I remember having a lot of junket during the war, seemed to fade out of the menu afterwards. |
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DBC Nottinghamshire All posts by this member | 11 of 63 Sat 27th Oct 2012 6:43pm Member: Joined Apr 2010 Total posts:168 The Polish Air Force stationed stationed at Bramcote were issued with Christmas Puddings one year. Many of the airmen didn't particularly like this unknown food, and I have heard that many of these puddings found their way to households in Nuneaton and Coventry. |
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 12 of 63 Sat 27th Oct 2012 7:36pm Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2975 On 27th Oct 2012 5:00pm, Dreamtime said: When mum ran the shop coffee was kept under the counter only for the regular customers
Was that the kind of tin with tinfoil inside the top which you had to stab a hole in to get at the contents and then when you inserted a spoon the rough edges of the tinfoil catapulted cofee all over the table? ![]() ![]() |
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LesMac Coventry All posts by this member | 13 of 63 Mon 29th Oct 2012 12:04pm Member: Joined Dec 2011 Total posts:252 My stepmother came from Preston so if it is a local dish up there I really don't know. Bannok or perhaps Bannock I'm not sure. It's an almost instant form of bread. If you want my advice don't bother.
Bannock is simple. Basically it is just a pan fried bread dough. Lots of leeway in this recipe. Use your imagination with it. It can't be hurt! LOL (unless you try and add chocolate chips, etc.!)
Flour
Baking Powder
Water
Salt
Lard or fat
As to how much of each? I haven't a clue but below is a rough guess.
3 cups of flour
tsp baking powder
pinch of salt
enough water to mix into a paste like dough
Lard fry it in. Use a lot. 1/4" in bottom of fry pan and add more later if needed. Les
Put it in the pan of hot grease and cook away! You can put it in as one piece, or shape it into "buns". |
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morgana the secret garden All posts by this member | 14 of 63 Mon 29th Oct 2012 11:05pm Member: Joined Nov 2011 Total posts:1932 Wartime recipes
It's a shame as my daughter-in-law had the recipe books for the war, now gone she threw them away ![]() ![]() |
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dutchman Spon End All posts by this member | 15 of 63 Tue 30th Oct 2012 12:58am Member: Joined Mar 2010 Total posts:2975 With the notable exception of the Co-op, grocers in those days had a reputation for adulterating food with other substances in order to maximise profits. For example, flour would be mixed with chalk, milk would be diluted with water. |
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