#wartime foods

[kattidiot]

Quillsh Wammy/hardtack stimboard

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[newyorkthegoldenage]

Rationing went into effect in the U.S. on March 1, 1943. On February 14, a woman in a fur coat filled out the consumer declaration and displayed her Ration Book #1.

Photo: Carl Nesensohn for the AP

[retropopcult]

Starting March 1, 1943, point rationing went into effect throughout the United States. The sign shows some of the steps to be followed in acquiring canned and processed foods. "Mrs. American Housewife, meets the first requirement at the registration site; she shows ration book No. 1 and turns in the consumer's declaration completely filled out on Feb. 14, 1943 in New York." (AP Photo/Carl Nesensohn)

[stone-cold-groove]

Corn - the Food of the Nation. United States Food Administration poster circa 1918.

[francixoxoxo]

Writing a sejanus fic that’s very cooking/food centric and worming my little wartime-chickpea-flour-3 -ingredient-poverty-ww2-rationing-Sicilian-recipes in like smuggling drugs over the border

[cerealkiller740]

1944 Green Giant Niblet Canned Corn ad

[stevethehairington]

fuckin LOVE a good story about the hubris of man

[marginal-notes]

Today I learned wonderful new ways to deeply inconvenience the ATLA kids in my fics through the delightfully complex hell of efficient wartime logistics. This time with horses.

Because honestly, in a lot of ways, I assumed that the Fire Nation figured out how to mechanize supply line transport to their front lines, but it makes way more sense that animal transport still holds the key role there.

This means mules and horses and likewise ATLA alternatives everywhere.

This means tons of animal feed and animal shit everywhere; whole groups of animal specialists and vets; constant resupply of new animals to replace injured, diseased, and dead animals. You need supply lines for your damn supply lines.

Have fun, Azula. Army camps stink to high heaven for many reasons, good luck avoiding the rampant diseases that constant rip through the ranks, and mind the judgmental ostrich horses.

[spotaus]

Thinking about Orchid and Horror again.

[vintageadsmakemehappy]

1943 Jantzen Swimwear advertising

[steve-rogers-new-york]

Recipe Advent Calendar - Day 1

Happy Holidays!

To celebrate the season, I am doing 12-days of seasonal recipes from the 14th to the 25th December. These are recipes published in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper during the period that Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes lived in Brooklyn in the early 20th century.

Christmas Cake Tips

Christmas cake recipes are many and varied. Some of them have been handed down from mother to daughter for generations. It is worth noting that many of these old standbys contain brandy, not so much for flavoring, since most of the taste is lost in the cooking, but because brand added to the keeping quality of the cake. Slow cooking is the rule for success in all fruit cakes. Tried and true recipes would have you steam the cake first and then bake them to a cake texture. You may cook the cake in almost any shape and any size tin—coffee or baking powder tins, loaf or square pans. Whichever type you use, follow the method of topping the tins with heavy wax paper. Leave this covering on during the steaming and all but the last half hour of the baking. In this way the cake will not become too brown. After the cakes are cooled, wrap them in wax paper and store them in the tins in which they were baked. A neat and easy trick that makes for successful storage is to top the tin a sheet of heavily-waxed paper. Put this package in a moderate oven until the wax on the paper has melted. Remove it from the oven and press the waxed paper around the edge of the container. As the pan cools, the melted wax will harden and make a perfect seal over your cakes. This wax paper may be removed every week or so, while you add an additional spoonful of grape juice or wine for additional flavor, and reseal until the next time.

Early American Fruit Cake

2 tablespoons cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon cloves 1 teaspoon nutmeg 4 cups sifted flour 2 cups shortening 2 cups sugar 1 tablespoon grated orange ring 12 eggs, well beaten 1 pound of seeded raisins 2 pounds currents 1 pound pitted dates, chopped 1 pound citron, shredded 3/4 cup brandy or sherry 3/4 cup rose water Prepare the fruit the day before mixing the cake. The next day mix and sift the flour and spices; mix with the prepared fruits. Cream the shortening until soft and smooth, gradually add sugar, creaming until fluffy; beat in orange rind and eggs. Gradually stir in flour and fruit mixture alternately with the combined brandy and rose water. Turn into greased loaf pans lined with waxed paper and gain greased. Fill the pans three-quarters full. Cover the tops with waxed paper and steam one hour, then bake at 250 degrees about three hours, depending on the size of the baking pan. The one-pound loaf takes three hours, while the two-pound will take about four and a half. Remove the wax paper the last half hour of baking. The recipe yields ten pounds of fruit cake.

The recipe appeared in the Monday 24 November 1941 edition of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

Advent Calendar Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8 | Day 9 | Day 10 | Day 11 | Day 12

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[newathens]

omg where’s those two sentences i wrote abt a future olympian civil war i didn’t tag it im gonna go crazy

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Potato Racket Denied Here," Montreal Star. May 12, 1943. Page 3. --- Prices Board Refutes Black Market Charge ---- Allegations from Toronto that one of the contributory factors in the potato shortage in that area was the existence of a black market in Montreal which was paying higher than ceiling prices for Maritime potatoes, was denied by Wartime Prices and Trade Board officials here today.

"To date the board has received only four complaints concerning potatoes," a representative declared, "and certainly that does not indicate that a black market is operating in the city."

Ottawa Restricts Sales OTTAWA, May 12 - (С.Р.) - Sale of certified seed potatoes for any use other than planting is prohibited in a Prices Board order is- sued last night. The order, effective May 13, covers the period until Saturday, June 5, considered the normal end of the potato planting season.

The Board's announcement said evidence had reached it that consumers in some instances have been supplementing short stocks of table potatoes by purchasing for consumption potatoes of seed quality, thus reducing the amount of seed available for production of the 1943 crop.

Officials of the Prices Board's food administration said last night that suspension until June 30 of the 10 per cent war exchange tax on potatoes imported from the United States, provided in a recent order-in-council, should help to ease the current potato shortage in Canada.

The order-in-council, which became effective May 1, exempts potatoes from the tax for the two-month period "to enable this commodity to be sold under the established price ceiling." Officials said the tax amounted to about 25 cents a bushel.

[eorzeashan]

ardun kothe's resistance cell quickly found out "traumatized" was another word for "behavioral issues" and their suspicions that the Cipher was sent to infiltrate and undermine them were proven correct when they discovered he had eaten all of their rations in a devious attempt to starve them out, to which he answered when interrogated that he "wanted to try Republic foodstuffs", and had no bad intentions aside from "tasting the flavors of this world".

Legate neglected to comment when asked why all his trash and crumbs were on Hunter's specific bedroll, or why he also made a food trail leading the nearest insect hive to it.

[stone-cold-groove]

World War II era U.S. ration stamps.

[cerealkiller740]

1944 Carnation Milk Wartime Advertisement