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The War Years
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~Lynda~ | Report | 15 Feb 2008 15:20 |
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Mazfromnorf | Report | 15 Feb 2008 15:25 |
My mum loved the war years and said they used to share and recycle every thing in fact she still melts soap together .to make a new bar her drawers are full of flattened tinfoil and breadbags folded. carrots were used to sweeten cakes and rosehips .makes you think though |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 15 Feb 2008 15:48 |
well you had a ration of sugar for each family member so it was used with care. Mum used to keep every small piece of soap left and moulded the pieces together to get another larger bar out of it . she used the same soap all the time so it wasnt a mixed bag. |
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ButtercupFields | Report | 15 Feb 2008 15:52 |
Lemons, Lynda. For some reason my mother used to store lemons...never quite worked out why. BC |
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Mazfromnorf | Report | 15 Feb 2008 16:03 |
love hearing how they used to save the rations for weddings and do's etc they had dummie iced cakes which hid the plain cake underneath . I think we have a lot to learn now cos obesity was rare in them days |
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Jessie aka Maddies mate | Report | 15 Feb 2008 16:04 |
My MIL stored everything - from food to clothing to ..........anything, when she passed and the house was cleared it was amazing how much she had hoarded |
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Susan719813 | Report | 15 Feb 2008 16:09 |
Hi Lynda, |
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Harry | Report | 15 Feb 2008 16:10 |
We had a tin of grade 1 salmon which my mother kept during the war and for many years after - she kept it for a special (rainy) day which never came. |
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~Lynda~ | Report | 15 Feb 2008 16:14 |
I know that stockings were in short supply, and that a line was drawn on the back of the leg to mimic a seam, someone once told me that the line was drawn with soot from the chimney, wonder what happened if it rained!! |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 15 Feb 2008 16:21 |
Susan |
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♥Athena | Report | 15 Feb 2008 16:22 |
One of my great aunts was a real hoarder of food and toiletries - her cupboards were always stocked to the brim of tins and packets (dozens of the same thing). |
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MacTheOldGeezer | Report | 15 Feb 2008 16:38 |
Re-cycling is not new. |
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Deanna | Report | 15 Feb 2008 16:38 |
I don't remember ever being without. |
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Mick in the Sticks | Report | 15 Feb 2008 16:44 |
Rationing continued well after the war into the 1950's. |
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badger | Report | 15 Feb 2008 16:52 |
My missus still has a tin of her mums powdered egg in the cupboard from 1942,don't fancy trying it though.she still has an old ration book as well.Fred. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 15 Feb 2008 17:08 |
Fred |
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Krystyna♥ | Report | 15 Feb 2008 17:08 |
I have a lovely 3 book set of Marguerite Patten's called The Wartime Kitchen.It has loads of recipes from the war years and tips on how they coped, with added nostalgia. The diet in those days are so much healthier too. Not that i'm old enough to have experienced it, but it's so informative and have even tried a couple of the dishes. |
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Mazfromnorf | Report | 15 Feb 2008 17:12 |
There is a recipe for alcohol using potatoes some where my dad called it sherry it was good but cant find the recipe at mums |
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~Lynda~ | Report | 15 Feb 2008 17:14 |
I found this on a website.These are some of the goods that were rationed per person a week, meat bacon cheese and tea seems a small amount, but 8ozs of sugar seems quite a lot, perhaps more people had very sweet teeth then? |
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Mazfromnorf | Report | 15 Feb 2008 18:13 |
They made clothes out of parachute silk too it was quite a luxury.I also like the stories about drawing stocking seams on your legs that must have been hard to do |
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