have you any menu ideas from 1947 during rationimg?

Answer 1

I have a most excellent book called Victory Cookbook by Marguerite Patten she says and she should know as she worked for the Minestry of Food during and after the war that rationing went on till 1954.

How about starting with Oatmeal Soup
1oz margarine
2 medium onions diced
2 tablespoon medium oatmeal
1 pint cold water
salt and peper
1/2 pint of milk
3 medium carrots
Method - Heat the margarine in a pan add the onions and cook for 5 minutes. Blend the oatmeal with the cold water and tip into the pan and stir as the mixture comes to the boil, season lightly. Simmer for 30 mins stiring frequently then add the milk and carrots and cook for a further 15 minutes.

Main Course
Savoury Meat Roll
4 oz stale bread
3/4 lb sausage meat
5oz pinto beans cooked and mashed
pepper and salt
1 teaspoon mustard
1 teaspoon thyme
gravy browning
browned breadcrumbs
Method - soak the stale bread in wate until soft. Squeeze ou the water and mash the bread with the sausage meat, the mashed beans, pepper, salt mustard and thyme. Add gray browning until the mixture is rich brown. Press very firmly into a greased 2lb tin and steam for 2 hours. Roll in browned bread crumbs an serve hot with brown gravy or cold with a raw cabbage heart salad and boiled potatoes.

Pudding
Vinegar Cake
6oz self raising flour
3oz margarine
3oz sugar
1/4 pint of milk
1 tablespoon vinegar
1/2 teaspoon bicarb o soda
3-4oz mixed dried fruit
Method - sift the flour, cream the margarine and suger. Pour the milk into a large basin add the vinegar and bicarb, the mix will rise and froth in the basin. Blend the flour and vinegar liquid into the creamed margarine and sugar then add the dried fruit. Pour into a greasd and floured 7 inch tin, bake in a moderate oven for 1 hour.

Hope these are what you are looking for I tried to find things that were a bit unusual using some different ingrediants.

Answer 2

Most of the recipes my grandmother have are baking recipes for sweets like:

Eggless, Butterless, Milkless Cake

INGREDIENTS
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 cup water
1/3 cup shortening
1 cup raisins
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 1/4 cups sifted cake flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup sliced almonds (optional)
1 teaspoon almond extract (optional)
DIRECTIONS
Combine the sugar, water, shortening, raisins, spices, and salt in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat, and stir while cooking for 3 minutes. Cool.
Measure flour, soda, and baking powder, and sift together.
Gradually stir dry ingredients into raisin mixture. Beat well. If an almond cake is desired, stir in almond extract and almonds. Pour batter into a greased 8 x 4 inch loaf pan.
Bake at 325 degrees F (165 degrees C) for about 1 hour.

I believe that you don't find many maincourse recipes because those were no-brainers. If you don't have meat or eggs make beans for example.

Answer 3

This is what we had from 1940 to 1946. Rationing officially ended in 1952 the last to come of rationing was coal. These were the meals we had. Breakfast was bread and warm milk. The bread was broken up in a dish.Dinner, Mashed potato, swede and sausage ( THE SAUSAGE WERE 60% BREAD) Tea, An apple and 2 rounds of bread. Sunday dinner, Rabbit, Potatoes, cabbageand afters were home made Rice pudding. In 1946, my Mother could buy a leg of lamb for 3shillings and 6 pence(171/2 pence) decimal.Because of Rationing on clothes, our clothes came from Jumble sales or shops that sold second hand clothes. Even Furniture was rationed because of the shortage of timber. We did have school milk, and the school nurse gave us a glass of orange juice and a spoonful of Malt once a week. Some weeks it was Cod liver oil. UUUGGGGGHHHHHH!!WW2 Schoolboy. Xmas was hand made toys and only one present each.

Answer 4

I was born in 1946, so I have heard many stories about rationing.

Most people tried to have "Victory" gardens to suppliment their diets. Meat, eggs and dairy products were in short supply.

Here is a recipe for War Cake - which makes the most of things at hand because there might not be eggs or butter or milk.

2 cups brown sugar
1 cup water
1 cup raisins
1/4 cup vegetable shortening
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
3 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

1. Put the first 7 ingredients in a heavy gauge saucepan and bring to a boil.
2. Cook gently for 5 minutes and remove from heat and let cool until mixture is comfortably cool to your finger.
3. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
4. Grease and flour 2 loaf pans.
5. Sift together flour, salt, baking soda, and baking powder.
6. Add them to the cooled sugar mixture, beat well.
7. Stir in walnuts.
8. Bake for 45 minutes or toothpick comes out of center clean.
9. Cool in pans 10 minutes and then turn out on plate and cool completely.

Answer 5

YES!! I am a gourmet chef and have written several cookbooks. but you must know that ratoning was only enforced during the WWII years... from 1942 to 1945. By 1947 the country was back to normal.

Answer 6

Ahh The year I was born I cant remember much about it of course but my mother said she had to stand in a long queue some while later probable about six moth later to buy me a banana

Answer 7

I prefer both fruits and fresh vegetables better, however they look and taste. You desire a little of both.

Answer 8

In the event it's a fruit they have seeds, otherwise it's a vegetable. And vegetables are usually grown in the ground while fruits are grown in trees.

Answer 9

Interesting question, and I'm sure there were plenty.

But you might get more responses if you post this question in a category where there are more people who are in an older age group (70+) ...or perhaps in a "history" category if there is one.


Diane B.

Answer 10

there is a pie, i made it once! just to see what it tasted like. Wolston pie should come up on a search, vegatables eggless flour etc, it was'nt bad! its named after the food minister in wartime i think.