UKHOMEFRONTS VERY OWN WW2 RECIPES & MONEY SAVING HINTS

A PAGE OF RECIPES & KITCHEN HINTS FROM THE 40s

AS GOOD TODAY AS THEY WERE 65 YEARS AGO

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GARDENING MONTH BY MONTH

There are numerous jobs which call for attention throughout the year, such as collecting refuse for burning or making into compost, and general tidying up.

These tasks will be done when there is a minute to spare and as they become urgent.

There are many others; however which must be done at the right time if they are to be of any use while some jobs, essential to successful gardening, may easily be overlooked unless a programme is mapped out and consulted regularly.

The following time table gives the principal jobs that have to be done each month.

FEBRUARY

If the district is a mild and well protected one, make a sowing of summer cauliflowers, Leeks and Carrots.

Make trenches for peas, running beans, and celery, the first weeds will be making their appearance, so start hoeing, continuing as called for in the months following.

Cut out unwanted branches from the gooseberry bushes.

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COOKERY MONTH BY MONTH

FEBRUARY

February marks the New Year in steady progress.

The housewife has had her first trial of National Mark and is beginning to taste some of the joys of her new adventure.

If she is wise, she will start to experiment a little, and learn perhaps that to buy (and properly deal with) a boiling fowl is not as extravagant as it may sound.

She will find, too that the rather dull days of late winter can be enlivened by the summer sunshine stored in National Mark tins, and that a dish of green peas or some delicious summer fruit will evoke memories, possibly of those very gardens and orchards where they were grown.

Healthy appetites will need more nourishment in this inclement weather, and consideration of the cheaper cuts of National Mark beef will teach her how to save and serve good food as well.

A breath of spring comes with the first appearance of those slim pink sticks of rhubarb, and she can count on a good supply of apples for dessert or cooking.

A good time to pore over a cookery book with one’s toes to the fire and half an eye on the clock.

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THIS MONTHS RECIPES

BUTTER BEANS SAVOURY

½ lb butter beans

1 large onion

1lb cooked potatoes

1 large apple

2oz fat

1 pint of white sauce

Salt and pepper

Soak the beans overnight. Cook them with the onion, then strain and add them to the white sauce. Season well, slice the apple and potato and fry in the hot fat, pour the beans onto a hot dish and serve surrounded by fried apples and potatoes.

CHOCOLATE QUEEN PUDDING

YOU WILL NEED

1 level teacup breadcrumbs

Small knob of margarine

1 level tablespoon sugar

½ pint of milk

2 teaspoons of Cocoa

4 tablespoon of jam or jelly

2 dried eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla essence.

Put the breadcrumbs, margarine, and sugar in a basin.

Boil the milk, cocoa and half the jam and pour it over the breadcrumbs, stirring the mixture well together. Cover with a plate and leave half an hour, then beat the eggs thoroughly .spread a tablespoonful of jam over the bottom of a greased pie dish.

Add the eggs and vanilla essence to the breadcrumb mixture.

Pour the pudding into the pie dish and cook for half to three quarters of an hour, in a moderately hot over till it set.

Then spread the remaining jam over the top.

SPINACH PATTIES

YOU WILL NEED

2lb spinach

1 onion

1oz fat

¾ lb short pastry

Salt and pepper

Prepare and cook the spinach, chop the onion and fry it lightly in the fat and then mix it with the spinach and seasoning. Roll out the pastry, cut it into rounds and place them into patty tins.

Put some of the spinach mixture into each tin and cover with a lid of pastry.

Bake in a quick oven for about 20minutes.

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MORE MILK BETTER HEALTH

DO YOU KNOW

That in an experiment carried out by the Medical Research Council on behalf of the Government, school boys who had one pint of milk a day showed an average annual increase in weight of over 3 lbs.

And an average annual increase in height of over ¾ of an inch compared with those who did not have the extra milk.

That in an experiment carried out by the Scottish Board of Health.

School children receiving additional milk made similar gains in weight and in height in comparison with those who did not have milk.

And That in another experiment in Scotland, 10,000 children who received milk showed that the addition of milk to the diet of school children caused a very definite increase in the rate of growth both in weight and height.

You cannot have better evidence of the value of milk than this.

MOTHERS! ARE YOU GIVING YOUR CHILDREN THE CHANCE OF GROWING HEALTHY AND STRONG BY ALLOWING THEM MILK EVERY DAY?????

THEY CAN HAVE MILK IN SCHOOL EACH DAY.

ASK the teacher to supply it.

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What it cost - 1939

Butter 1/6 (7½p) per lb.

Margarine 6d (2½p) per lb.

Lard 7d (3p) per lb.

Cheddar cheese 10d (4p) per lb.

Danish side bacon 1/6 (7½p) per lb.

Milk 3d (1½p) per pint

Egyptian eggs 8d (3½p) per dozen

CWS Tea-tips 3/- (15p) per lb.

Granulated sugar 4½d (2p) per lb.

Large tin of Lokreel peaches 1/2 (6p)

Nestles cream 6½d (2½p) per small tin

Sweet biscuits 1/- (5p) per lb

Chocolate Fingers 1/9 (8½p) per lb.

Flour 1/7 (8p) per stone (14lb.)

Self raising flour 7½d (3p) per 3lb.

Players cigarettes 10 for 7d (3p)

Woodbine cigarettes 10 for 5d (2p)

St Bruno tobacco 1/2 (6p) per 1oz.

Marcella Elegante cigars 50 for £1/1/6 (£1.07½p).

Danish eggs, large 2/- (10p) per dozen.

Potatoes 1/2 (6p) per stone (14lb).

A live-in maid doing plain cooking could be engaged for £1 per week and a modern furnished bungalow could be rented for 2 to 3 gns (£2.10p to £3.15p) a week, a detached three bedroomed bungalow with a garage and garden cost £550, and a new baby Austin to go into the garage would cost £122.

Barry Noble advertised: Jaffas 1d (½p) each –

Nelis pears 4d (1½p) per lb

Newtowns 4d (1½p) per lb

McIntosh Reds 4d (1½p) per lb

Grapefruit 5 for 4d (1½p)

Lemons ½d (-) each

Cooking Apples 6d (2½p) for 3½lb.

What it cost - 1940

Rowntree's Cocoa, 6d (2½p) per ¼lb. –

Chappie Dog Food, 7d (3p) per tin.

- Black Cat cigarettes, 10 for 6d (2½p).-

- Reckitt's Bath Cubes, 2d (1p) each. - A small bungalow, £250.

- - 10 hp Vauxhall saloon car, £169.

- - Drene Shampoo, 6d (2½p),

- 1/- (5p) and 2/6 (12½p) per bottle.

- - Maltesers, 2d (1p) per packet, 6d (2½p) per box

- - Oxydol sold in 3½d (1½p), 6d (2½p) and 1/- (5p) pkts.

- Wrigley's PK Chewing Gum, 1d (½p) per packet

- - Halls Wine, 3/9 (19p) and 6/6 (32½p)

- per bottle. –

- Celanese ties cost 1/6 (7½p) each.

The Scottish Motor Traction Co Ltd advised that the fare from Glasgow to London was £1/10/- (£1.50p) and the return fare was £2/10/- (£2.50p).

120 Wills 'Gold Flake' cigarettes could be sent to the British Forces in France for 3/9 (18½p).

Seats in London's 'His Majesty's Theatre' to see Stanley Lupino, Florence Desmond & Sally Gray in 'Funny Side Up' cost from 1/6 to 10/6 (7½p to 52½p).

What it cost - 1941

Embassy cigarettes, 10 for 9d (4p)

- Wisdom toothbrushes, 2/5 (12p) each

- Eve toilet soap 3d (1½p) per bar

- Palmolive toilet soap 4d (2p) per bar –

Vim 6d (2½p) per canister

- De Reszke Minor cigarettes, 10 for 6½d (2½p)

- Hartley's headlamp masks 10/6 (52½p) to 12/6 (62½p) each

- Gibbs Dentifrice 7½d (3½p) and 1/3 (6½p) per tin

- Cremola Pudding 3d (1½p) and 6d (2½p) per pkt –

Rowntrees cocoa 5d (2p) per ¼lb and 9½d (3½p) per ½lb

- Cadbury's Ration Chocolate sold at 2½d (1p) per bar, the supply was very limited - and the weight of the bar was not mentioned.

Gamages advertised a shirt (with a spare collar) at 6/11 (35p)

- a pair of flannel trousers at 15/9 (78p)

- a pair of shoes, all leather at 13/9 (68p)

- and a mans self lined raincoat for 1 guinea (that was £1/1/- (£1.05

What it cost - 1942

This from a Rowntree's advertisement ..

. Brunch chocolate bars, Cream Tablet bars and bars of Plain York chocolate all sold at 2½d (1p) and 2 points each

- the famous fruit gums were no longer sold in tubes or packets but were sold loose at 7d (3p) and 4 points per 4oz.

Other prices quoted were ... Black and White Scotch Whisky £1/3/- (£1.15) per bottle and 12/- (60p) per ½ bottle –

Zixt Hand soap (soap with an abrasive added for dirty and oily hands) 4d (1½p) and 1 coupon per small tablet

- A three hole safety razor plus three razor blades - 'worth their weight in gold' - for 2/10d (14p).

Gamage's advertisement ... Featured a Black Japanned Metal Coal Bunker to hold 2 cwt. cost £1/5/3 (£1.26) plus 3/- (15p) carriage

- Gas Pokers were priced at 5/9 (29p) postage and packing 7d (3p) extra,

- the flexible metal tubing for it cost 5d (2p) per foot extra.

What it cost - 1943

Taken from various newspapers

... Strawberry plants 12 for 2/6 (12½p)

- Raspberry canes 12 for 3/6 (17½p)

- Darwin Tulip bulbs 12 for 7/6 (37½p)

- 100 mixed Daffodil, Tulip and Narcissus bulbs for 19/- (95p)

... Cadbury's Red Label drinking chocolate 10d (4p) per ½lb

- Bournville cocoa 9½d (3½p) per ½lb –

- Bourn-Vita 1/5 (7p) per ½lb

- - Woodwards Gripe Water 1/5 (7p) per bottle

- - Booth's Dry Gin £1/5/3 (£1.26) per bottle and 13/3 (66p) per ½ bottle

- - Wooden soled shoes (which were really clogs) 5 coupons and 12/4 (62p) - One handed storm proof cigarette lighter 6/6 (32½p) plus 6d (2½p) postage and packing.