World War 2 rations on the British Home Front

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  @TastingHistory · 1 year ago · pinned

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  @wraithcadmus · 1 year ago

  Rationing was so well-implemented and the recipes so effective that deaths from malnutrition went <i>down</i> during the war.

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  @maryminty5876 · 1 year ago

  When banas came back, they were on the Blue Ration book, for a child, limited to one per book. &nbsp;To make the treat go further, my mother used to halve one between my brother and me. &nbsp;To stop arguments over who had the biggest half,she used her tape measure and made us watch as she made the cut. &nbsp;How well she kept the peace. &nbsp;A wonderful woman and exemplary mother i still miss. I am 92, the last one left with the memory.

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  @SelenaJarvis-Jordan · 1 year ago

  I like how it says to &quot;eat immediately&quot; like eat it real fast before your brain figures out there&apos;s something wrong here

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  @sam_uelson · 1 year ago

  My grandmother was still cooking out of her 1940 ration book until 2005

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  @mileshaven2552 · 1 year ago

  Coming from the Philippines, we had the inverse problem. Too many bananas (prob also from limited export) but not enough tomatoes being imported. And thus, the Banana Ketchup was born during the War and continued to be love through this day

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  @mylifewithmarmalade4624 · 1 year ago

  Took care of an elderly British expat lady who was a young child growing up in London during WWII. &nbsp;She said the national loaves as she remembered them were not only quite dense but also far saltier than most bread including some of the later post war recipes she’d tried for nostalgia’s sake. &nbsp;She said her understanding was that the extra salt was added to help keep mold at bay so that the bread would keep longer and therefore reduce waste. &nbsp;It might end up quite dry and stale, but at least it would remain safe to eat. &nbsp;She said her mother used to make vegetable broth a couple times a week from the vegetable scraps and when the bread got very stale she would cut it into cubes and serve it in a bowl of hot vegetable broth with whatever other vegetables they had as meal. &nbsp;The bread would soften in the broth to be more edible and add more substance to the otherwise very meager vegetable soup.

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  @mrwri · 10 months ago

  My grandmother had jam on bread for her 5th birthday cake with a match borrowed from a police officer as a candle. She said it was the best cake she ever had.

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  @StuSaville · 1 year ago

  My dad lived in London during the Blitz as a young boy. When I asked him what was his worst memory of the war he replied &quot;parsnips&quot;

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  @Kera_atora · 1 year ago

  I used your hard tack recipe a few weeks ago, than the hurricanes hit, and i made even more. I took a bunch of homemade potted meat, a bunch of boullion, and al lthe hard tack to some friends stranded out there, stayed with them for a while as there wasn&apos;t a shelter they couldn&apos;t get too. <br><br>We ate on it for days, mixing it into a oatmeal like meal. Just wanted to say thanks for the recipe Max! It helped some people out!

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  @charlotteillustration5778 · 1 year ago

  My father used to recount that he and his siblings (four in all) were given a banana at the end of the war, but their nanny insisted on giving it all to the youngest, because, she said, that as he had been born in 1939, he had never tasted one. The other children were furious, as you can imagine, loudly declaring that, as their brother had never tasted a banana, then he didn’t know what he was missing, whereas they did, so would have enjoyed it far more. &nbsp;I don’t know why she didn’t just cut it into four pieces…

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  @BobBob-qg4lo · 1 year ago

  Fun fact, my great grandfather was actually in the RAF in world war 2 and was, to our knowledge, the first person to bring bananas back to london after the war. His son, my grandfather, always used to make us bananas on toast with a dash of sugar on it, i never used to understand when i was young why he loved them so much, but now with a better idea of how he grew up it makes a lot of sense to me why he was so proud of his dad, and why he treasured sweet treats so much, he was making up for what he missed out on in his youth.

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