embo Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Looking for some ideas of what food families ate during in WW1? Can anyone help me out or recommend any recipes or any good websites with recipes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Downsunder Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Bread and lard. No recipe required. Big pot in't middle o' table. Lump o' bread each. Use ladle or yer fingers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyer Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 anything that grew or could crawl ---------- Post added 22-10-2013 at 12:26 ---------- P.S In the stew pot one cant tell cat from rabbit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 Flyer, surely you remember, Rabbit has longer ears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyer Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Flyer, surely you remember, Rabbit has longer ears. Not when its skinned and in the stew pot It was supposed that lots of cats was eaten during WW2 :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willybite Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Not when its skinned and in the stew pot It was supposed that lots of cats was eaten during WW2 :cool: hiya, a round shouldered rabbit to keep the crust up, no my gran would make what I thought was colcanon,might have heard wrong though when I mentioned it to an Irishman he said did I mean concanon and he told me how it was made, it was t1he same as my grans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daffodil123 Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 my mother used to make pastry with liquid parafin! and saved THE LARD for our bread, ---------- Post added 23-10-2013 at 21:26 ---------- my mother used to make pastry with liquid parafin,and saved THE LARD FOR OUR BREAD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyer Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 I was much to young to remember but my mum said dad would go out poaching and always came back with a couple,mind you could be someone had left there hutch unlocked LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phanerothyme Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 info here - http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/rationing_and_world_war_one.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scousemouse Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 ................according to my late mum, 'not a lot'! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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