The Victory Home: 
Food--Recipes

Poster: Help Bring Them Back to You! Make Yours a Victory Home!
In addition to rationing, housewives and cooks had to deal with shortages of many foods. Recipes had to be adjusted to stretch or make substitutions for difficult-to-obtain ingredients. Other recipes were devised to make use of ingredients that were easy to get.
 
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Stories

"The Art of Meat Stretching"

Mum's Cooking in Wartime (British)
 

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Recipes

This recipe pamphlet is from the Ad*Access Collection of Duke University.

Best Wartime Recipes
 

These recipes are found on various sites on the World Wide Web.

Frugal Recipes from Wartime Britain

Food and Recipes of Wartime Europe

British Christmas Cookery, 1943

Nut-sweet potato casserole recipe

British recipes
 

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Make a Victory Cake!
 

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List of Cookbooks

These modern collections of WWII recipes are found at Amazon, but you can also look for them at your local public library.

Grandma’s Wartime Cooking

Molly’s Cookbook (American Girls series)

Wartime Recipes

Square Meals (not all recipes here are WWII)

Wartime Cooking (UK)
 

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Photos

These photos are in the National Archives ARC Digital Copies collection.

An interesting variation on the gingerbread theme can be made by substituting one-half cup of orange juice for the milk and one tablespoon of grated orange rind to replace the spices, however, to carry out this variation, mix the orange rind with the liquids rather than with the dry ingredients.

Only one-fourth cup of sugar is necessary to make this dessert which serves six people.
 

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Posters

These posters are in the Northwestern University Library collection.  Click on the small image to see a larger one.

You Can Plan and Prepare

Guard Your Family’s Health

Food Is a Weapon
 

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Pamphlets

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These pamphlets are in the Central Libraries of Southern Methodist University collection.

99 Ways to Share the Meat

Dried Beans & Peas in Wartime Meals

Fats in Wartime Mmeals

Green Vegetables in Wartime Meals

Root Vegetables in Wartime Meals, 1943

Root Vegetables in Wartime Meals, 1944
 

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