Home Creators Posts Import Register Favorites Logout

Downloads

Content

Much of the popular media about wartime rationing spends a lot of time looking at the crazy examples of weird and frightening recipes that appeared during this time - because that's what attracts audience attention. In reality, the strange recipes are not attempts to make terrible foods palatable, but rather attempts to make repetitive ingredients more interesting. Today's Welsh Eggs, for instance, are a way to use powdered eggs in a way that hides their lack of texture. 

Day 3 Menu:

Breakfast: Potato Bacon and Green Onion hash, tea

Lunch: Split Pea Soup (made with Spam instead of bacon)

Tea: Peach Clafouti, tea

Dinner: Welsh Eggs on toast, sauteed kale

For the recipes for today's dishes - and lots of other details about the experiment - please see our data page at InRange.tv: 

http://www.inrange.tv/british-rationing-recipes/

Files

Comments

Marc Paris

This is a very interesting series. Will you touch on ration book counterfeiting? Was that an issue?

Dayton Robbins

How much food did the typical victory garden produce, and what type of things were grown

Nathan Gefvert

I have a very modest yard in an old steel town, which I can imagine would be similar in some ways to industrialized parts of Britain. My garden produces more food than I and my friends & family can consume and store (to the point where I have used some food as alternative starch sources for brewing). All fertilizer is created by composting plant material and it is completely self sustaining.