"Roving Mouse" > wrote in message
...
>
>
> Does anyone have any recipes from this era (U.S. or other cuisines..) or
> can you recommend a good WWW or hard copy source for them?
>
> TIA, Roving Mouse..

Look for the following book:

Coupon Cookery - By Prudence Penny - It's a fun read.

Dimitri

The US Department of Agriculture and the home economist at the North Dakota
Mill and Elevator offered recipe suggestions in "ration point cookery" and
"Victory Garden dining." Among the recommendations were "Yankee Doodle Prune
Pie in Victory Pie Crust" in which neither sugar nor butter was used and
"Stand Up and Cheer Hamburger Dinner" which through creative culinary
endeavor a pound of hamburger could feed a family of six. Prudence Penny in
her Coupon Cookery preached the use of chicken for nutritious eating:
"If you've spent all your meat stamps
and haven't any more
Eating chicken is a pleasant way
to help to win the war."

The push on the home front was, as Prudence Penny so eloquently stated, "to
help win the war." The government wanted to channel civilian energies into
useful tasks, to involve as many people as possible in the effort to beat
the Axis powers.