Today, we’ve picked out two recipes that are heavily based on carrots – things that your mothers, grandmothers or great-grandmothers might well have made in the war. Last week we picked out two wartime pie recipes. The Victory Binding of the American Womans Cook Book: Wartime Edition the Victory Binding of the American Womans Cook Book: Wartime Edition 1943 : Berolzheimer Hardcover: Amazon. It’s all beautifully illustrated with some of the museum’s collection of beautiful and often very funny wartime posters.
Victory in the Kitchen is not your usual cookbook: there are no beautiful photographs of food carefully prepared in studios, but instead a collection of simple, delightful and – to our modern palates – unusual recipes from the Second World War. The real reason, of course, was the development of radar – a secret which the British wanted to keep for as long as possible.Ĭarrots appear in many ingenious guises in a new book called Victory at the Kitchen, published by the Imperial War Museum at £6.99. It was a propaganda triumph, believed to have been introduced in 1940 to explain British pilots’ superiority over the Luftwaffe during night missions. wartime edition of The American Womans Cook Book, 'with Victory Substitutes and Economical Recipes for Delicious Wartime Meals' (from frontispiece). Those benefits, incidentally, do not include better eyesight at night – though that myth emanated from the war as well, with British intelligence spreading the rumour that Vitamin A helped pilots’ vision at night. Country Life's Top 100 architects, builders, designers and gardeners.
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