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Lord Wooltons Vegetable Pie. This encouraged several eggless recipes such as eggless cake and eggless sponge.
Milk cheese and eggs in particular were in short supply.
World war 2 ration recipes. Rationing in World War Two meant that recipes had to make the most of the food that was more easily available. The government published recipes to convince people that they could still cook good food during the war. As you can see from the following selection of World War Two recipes published by the government ingredients were used inventively and sparingly.
Lord Wooltons Vegetable Pie. During World War Two the government produced a raft of recipes that each family could use. Rationing greatly limited what the average family in Great Britain could cook.
To keep up morale the government published recipes to make the most of what people could get in terms of food. This served two purposes. Rationing throughout World War 2 forced people to cook with limited ingredients.
Milk cheese and eggs in particular were in short supply. This encouraged several eggless recipes such as eggless cake and eggless sponge. Other meals included spam hash cottage pie and bubble and squeak.
The above video may be from a third-party source. Weekly rations were-4oz. Butter 2 oz Preserves 8oz.
Cheese 1 egg 3oz.