World War II Wartime Christmas Cookbook

Download or read book World War II Wartime Christmas Cookbook written by Megan Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II in Britain , rationing - especially of food - caused people to change their lifestyles.Once-inexpensive foodstuffs such as eggs, butter, sugar and most meats were available only in small quantities and with ration coupons. Rationing meant Christmas was a simpler affair than usual. Gifts and decorations were very basic and traditional Christmas food was unavailable or only available in small quantities: when people ran out of certain food items they substituted them for other foods or did without.People tried to save some ingredients for Christmas and the substitutes they used for hard to find traditional ingredients led to the creation of new recipes such as meat free Mock Goose to replace their favourite Christmas recipes. Try some of these World War II recipes this Christmas!