War time recipe booklet from General Foods 1943
It begins with an illustration of Victorianna and a letter to Uncle Sam from his 'Niece' pledging to do her best to get dinner on the table despite food shortages.
This was a fun read and included many war time tips to make meat, eggs and sugar stretch further.
It suggests adding cereals like grapenuts or bran flakes to tamales, hamburgers, meatloaf, casseroles, breads and pancakes. And, actually the pancakes would be very good with fruity or chocolate cereal.
It also features cake recipes with low or no sugar, subbing all the sugar for honey and or half for log cabin syrup.
The cakes and cookies feature one egg only and have a section on rendering your own chicken fat to sub for shortening.
The lunches and dinners encourage using less meat to really stretch those war time rations.
Another tip is mixing butter for sandwiches with gelatine to make it last longer, but concedes it is not meant to be cooked with.
Here are two featured recipes, one stretching a small amount of sausage with Grape-Nuts and the other a Jell-O dessert featuring postum.
I had not yet heard of postum and was grateful for the following passage explaining its usage. You can apparently still purchase this.
All in all a great little booklet and a fascinating glimpse into recipes and rationing during WW2.
