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    Victory in The Kitchen: Wartime Recipes
    Victory in The Kitchen: Wartime Recipes
    Victory in The Kitchen: Wartime Recipes
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    Victory in The Kitchen: Wartime Recipes

    By Imperial War Museum and Laura Clouting

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    This book is a collection of delightful and unusual recipes from the Second World War. Taken from the archives of IWM, the recipes show the ingenuity and creativity behind dishes rustled up out of meagre rations - from austerity recipes such as scrap bread pudding, potato pastry and sheep's heart pie to hearty English favourites including Lancashire hot pot, Queen's Pudding and crumpets. With colour images of wartime posters throughout and an introduction by an IWM historian, it is a fascinating look into what people ate in wartime.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherG2 Rights Ltd
    Release dateJan 18, 2017
    ISBN9781782816683
    Victory in The Kitchen: Wartime Recipes

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      Victory in The Kitchen - Imperial War Museum

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      VICTORY

      IN THE KITCHEN

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      CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      CONVERSION TABLES

      STARTERS

      MAINS

      PUDDINGS

      BAKING

      IMAGE LIST AND

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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      INTRODUCTION

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      THE SECOND WORLD WAR had a huge impact on the kitchens, and the stomachs, of millions of British people. This isn’t so surprising when considering the context – this global conflict of unsurpassed destruction required all of a nation’s resources to fight it and, in the words of the British government, food was ‘a munition of war’ (see poster on p.66). Without it, military forces could not fight on. Civilian workers could not contribute to their nation’s ‘war machine’ in the unrelenting production of weapons and equipment. Ordinary people living through a state of war on the home fronts had to be sustained. Food was their fuel.

      Imports were essential to Britain. As an island, it relied upon raw materials and supplies being shipped in from other countries. But during the Second World War, the sea became a battleground as German submarines targeted ships carrying vital consignments bound for Britain. A fierce moral imperative was laid upon people not to waste imported food once it had arrived safely. Sailors’ lives had been risked for it. This wasn’t a new scenario. During the First World War, although Britain managed to feed itself, it was obvious to everybody that the nation was enormously vulnerable to attacks on merchant shipping.

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      With supplies from abroad once again threatened during the Second World War, Britain needed to exploit more fully what could be grown and produced at home. A great push was made to cultivate land for food production. The drive for self-sufficiency resulted in one million tonnes of homegrown food being reaped at the height of the war. This ‘Dig for Victory’ campaign saw the government energetically encourage the conversion of parks, playing fields, railway embankments, flower beds and every possible slither of land into vegetable patches. Agriculture was mobilised at state level, including the creation of the Women’s Land Army to replace male farm workers who had gone to fight. Having been volunteers at the war’s beginning, ‘Land Girls’ were eventually conscripted from towns as well as rural locations. Their efforts remain synonymous with growing more food to increase Britain’s resilience.

      Growing more was only one side of Britain’s strategy to weather wartime pressures on food. The burning issue of ‘fair shares’ had to be dealt with

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