tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24170237.post101083291130190126..comments2024-03-24T01:15:08.693+10:00Comments on The Old Foodie: Canteen Cookery.The Old Foodiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00766403052971301718noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24170237.post-63541219851374936842009-08-31T09:53:13.331+10:002009-08-31T09:53:13.331+10:00I think I'm talking about a sort of "fat ...I think I'm talking about a sort of "fat saving" "backlash". People who were used to bacon, eggs, and dripping felt really deprived by low fat living. And rationing was, in fact, even more drastic after the war, it was only lifted in (I think) 1956. So that old people, at least, wanted extra fat and would pay for it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24170237.post-37602988198880077182009-08-31T06:05:52.317+10:002009-08-31T06:05:52.317+10:00Hello entspinster - thanks for your very informati...Hello entspinster - thanks for your very informative comments: I must get a copy of "1939" - it sounds fascinating. I had no idea that the fat-saving mentality still had a hold in the 1970s.<br />thanks!<br />JanetThe Old Foodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00766403052971301718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24170237.post-16063796543607174692009-08-31T00:11:11.253+10:002009-08-31T00:11:11.253+10:00It also took "fat for frying", and cooki...It also took "fat for frying", and cooking fat was in short supply. When I was in England in 1970, memories of the fat shortage still haunted some people to the point that a breakfast order might include extra bacon dripping for an extra fee!<br /><br />"1939: the Last Season of Peace" a report of London debutants in 1939 and what happened to them in and after the war has some related information. Girls who had never so much as made a slice or toast in their lives (nanny, the nursery maid, cook, or the kitchen maid did that) were pitched into catering, and "took hold splendidly". Rather too splendidly in the case of one deb, who was very popular with the men she fed. Seems that, not yet trained or supervised much, she had been poviding more, and more varied, food than the "General Issue".<br /><br />You've posted some of those GI menus recently. 1939 doesn't give recipes, but it does have some info on land-owning families usung game and river fish to suplement rations. The Royal households did this too, which made their boast that they too complied with rationing quite true, but not entirely candid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24170237.post-51933853469263611032009-08-30T21:04:32.371+10:002009-08-30T21:04:32.371+10:00I love it too - and I love it that you have given ...I love it too - and I love it that you have given me yet another name for it. I wonder if it is called "Egyptian toast" in other families too - or was it just yours?The Old Foodiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00766403052971301718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24170237.post-28008499271816100382009-08-30T14:15:54.264+10:002009-08-30T14:15:54.264+10:00I love that there are so many variations of this r...I love that there are so many variations of this recipe around the world, and it's still being made today. For some reason I forget, the savoury version of this was called Egyptian Toast in our house. Still one of my favourite comfort foods today.Helen Thttp://thefoodiegifthunter.co.uknoreply@blogger.com