Christmas feasts: WW2 rationing & postwar absurdity
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Food in the Twenty-First Century
The minister of fed was well aware that a moral would suffer if people couldn't get hold of their christmas dinner. A lot of the suggestions made by cookery writers, including those that were government sponsored, were totally unrealistic. I have strong suspicion that some of the more utro recipes were not cooked they appeared. But what were some of the most successful substitutions? Well, i've got a war time christmas cake in the bit, which is genuinely lovely. And puddings, om lads, y, different eras. The wartime one i had high hopes for, because i cooked carrot base christmas puddings before, and they'd been very nice. But,
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