Molly Coddle

This story appears courtesy of and with thanks to The Liverpool Diocesan Care and Repair Association and James Taylor.

We got by on rations. Nobody was starving though you only got a certain amount of bread and potatoes. For a long time after the war you had the queue up for stuff. The thing is, your life was one long life of queuing. I used to be out in the early morning at the greengrocers at the top because he was the cheapest. As for the rationing, the meat was the worst. You couldn’t really get decent meat unless you had the money…..Under the counter sort of thing, there was lots of that going on. I had a butcher and one day he said “Hey Ada, would you like to come back and have a molly coddle and I’ll give you a joint.” I said “You go and molly coddle yourself, I’ve got five children, that’s enough, I don’t want anymore babies to my husband — never mind you.”

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