On Mon 04 May 2009 07:55:07p, Terry Pulliam Burd told us...

> On Mon, 04 May 2009 13:21:17 -0400, "Jean B." > fired up
> random neurons and synapses to opine:
>
>>There were a lot of wartime booklets, and some books, about
>>Victory Gardens--plus preserving the produce from the gardens. I
>>have quite a few of them, partly because they are fascinating, and
>>partly because they may just come in handy.
>
> I have my mother's cookbook from WWII that contains a section on
> "wartime cookery." It's a bunch of recipes using substitution
> ingredients, none of which look particularly inviting, but would keep
> you from starving to death.

My parents married in 1937 and somehow acquired some basic cookbooks from
both the local gas and electric companies. She also had several cookbooks
from the WWII period. Some recipes from all of those books are really
pretty good, if rather basic.

--
Wayne Boatwright
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Red meat is not bad for you. Now blue ~green meat, that’s bad for
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