Wartime Food

Wartime food from my childhood:-

® Pigs' trotters very tasty and real meat fell off the trotters (not the plastic type we have today)
® Tripe and onions (which I detested) often served with a white sauce — not much colour on the plate so quite uninteresting
® Rabbit stew was my favourite meal quite delicious with the vegetables and gravy — beware the bones though
® Pearl barley and dumplings — pearl barley I think was used to thicken and the dumplings to fill you up — I enjoyed the meat, vegetables and gravy but the dumplings and pearl barley not so much
® One of my favourite “snacks” was dripping toast (or on bread) with salt and pepper and I especially liked the brown jelly from underneath — can’t imagine eating this today!
® Miss Muffet junkets were a favourite pudding and when you could get them bananas — but we hardly ever ate a banana on its own — it was considered more filling to have it as a sandwich . This has stayed with me and if I eat a banana on its own today I still think I should be having bread with it.
® We grew different vegetables and fruit in our garden and so food was always fresh (and only eaten in season) — rhubarb, gooseberries, strawberries, apples and blackcurrants. Some neighbours kept chickens so eggs were fairly plentiful.

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