Wartime recipes

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I am no cook. If the Uk were to find itself in a wartime or famine type situation again for any reason, would these recipes still be suitable.

www.gutenberg.org/files/15464/15464-h/15464-h.htm

They're American recipes so less relevant to the produce that the UK would have to work with if imports became tricky.

That aside - wartime food was designed to give people sufficient calories in a way that was as palatable as possible. So using them again should be 'suitable' as in you wouldn't starve eating them, but I suspect there would be deep unhappiness if we were told to survive on mock egg fritters or parsnip 'custard' and the like.

Ah. I did wonder why all the cayenne pepper and cornflower

Some of them dont seem so bad. Others seem very dull. But wartime or famine would mean limited ingredients.

In a famine, I think we'd all eat anything. Just hope I've got enough spices etc to improve the taste of Fido and Hammy.

Totally not what you're talking about, but I was watching a documentary last night and apparently in the latter years of WWII the Germans were limited to rations of 1000cals a day.