"Roving Mouse" <
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> Does anyone have any recipes from this era (U.S. or other
> cuisines..) or can you recommend a good WWW or hard copy
> source for them?
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> TIA, Roving Mouse..
Look for the following book:
Coupon Cookery - By Prudence Penny - It's a fun read.
Dimitri
The US Department of Agriculture and the home economist at
the North Dakota Mill and Elevator offered recipe
suggestions in "ration point cookery" and "Victory Garden
dining." Among the recommendations were "Yankee Doodle Prune
Pie in Victory Pie Crust" in which neither sugar nor butter
was used and "Stand Up and Cheer Hamburger Dinner" which
through creative culinary endeavor a pound of hamburger
could feed a family of six. Prudence Penny in her Coupon
Cookery preached the use of chicken for nutritious eating:
"If you've spent all your meat stamps and haven't any more
Eating chicken is a pleasant way to help to win the war."
The push on the home front was, as Prudence Penny so
eloquently stated, "to help win the war." The government
wanted to channel civilian energies into useful tasks, to
involve as many people as possible in the effort to beat
the Axis powers.
