No.10409
/k/ here, thinking of putting together some WWII related dishes both to introduce my kids to some things they haven't tried yet and also to serve as lessons on history.
Pizza, carbonara and solyanka are some of the more obvious things but I was thinking rabbit stew as well. If you have any suggestions on dishes that became popular and spread as a result of rationing or troops being shipped all over the place then I'd like to hear it.
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No.10410
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I can't help you with WWII related dishes at least, not without research, but I CAN link you to videos of old rations, assuming you haven't seen them already. Perhaps you could work from there? Given the general wartime economy, you're probably not going to find much in the way of flavorful dishes before the war actually ended.
As far as I can tell, the most important part of a WWII meal is your post-meal cigarette, preferably at the dinner table because this is the 40's and Camels help your lungs grow stronger.
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No.10412
>>10409
>If you have any suggestions on dishes that became popular and spread as a result of rationing or troops being shipped all over the place then I'd like to hear it.
Corned beef hash. If you're an American then the British version uses tinned corned beef rather than the shit you're probably thinking of. I believe anything heavy on the potato also. Ploughman's lunch might be a war rationing thing too from what I can half-remember.
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No.10413
>>10410
>Given the general wartime economy, you're probably not going to find much in the way of flavorful dishes before the war actually ended.
You'd do well to reconsider your preconcieved notions of what wartime eating was like. Butter was very heavily rationed in almost every nation during the war but growing vegetables in your garden was strongly encouraged and in Britain which had to import 70% of its grains whole grain bread became an enduring staple as a result of the eating habits imposed by rationing.
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No.10414
>>10413
>Butter was very heavily rationed in almost every nation during the war
Speaking of this continental Europe had some pretty major problems with food too. Pissing off the RN does have rather the habit of preventing you from importing food. It's just that the British government managed to turn rationing into a propaganda victory.
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No.10415
>>10414
The disruptions to shipping made access to certain goods near impossible and even countries that never got involved were forced to ration goods, Sweden for example.
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No.10416
>>10413
Mm mm, butter, bread, and home grown tomatoes. Truly the food of kings.
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No.10419
>>10415
>even countries that never got involved were forced to ration goods, Sweden for example.
While I agree with your point Sweden specifically was selling essential raw materials to the Germans right through until 1944 and even escorting the German convoys carrying them. It also let German troops use its transport system. I'm not sure that counts as uninvolved.
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No.10420
>>10419
Well yeah and a lot of swedish volunteers joined the finns too and they allowed Hitler access to their rail network to move troops to Norway but they didn't involve themselves directly in any of the hostilities. Spain too saw rationing and they weren't sandwiched between warring nations like the swedes and swiss.
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No.10444
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No.10448
ANZAC biscuits were WW1 but wouldn't go a miss. Basically the kiwi/ozzie equivalent of gingernuts but made softer now-a-days than they were in the war. Pretty sure beef stroganoff spread to the US with returning soldiers too.
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No.10454
OP.. Don't know if this helps, but fried onion burgers were a product of WW2 in Oklahoma. Diners used copious amounts of fried onions to stretch the use of ground beef.
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No.10460
>>10409
Late, but still.
"Wartime Farm" is a BBC documentary where 3 historians live on a WWII-era farm for a year, using farming and cooking techniques from the time. They have other eras too, if you're into that sort of thing.
"The Supersizers Go…" is another BBC show but they only do it for a week, the food is prepared for them, and they turn up their noses quite a bit (the previous documentary they will eat anything for accuracy). "Wartime" is the WWII-era episode.
Lastly, cooking-wise powdered eggs were a huge staple in Britain in wartime, and afterwords children who grew up in the war preferred them. Victory gardens and pig clubs were huge, although I doubt you're going to go that far with it. And don't forget Meatless Mondays!
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No.10470
>>10460
cheers m8
>tfw my turgid dick is making my jeans burst at the seams at the thought of war gardens oh mary mother of god these satanic lusts are too much for my will to resist
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No.10479
>>10470
No problem, man, I'm a history nerd, it should benifit someone. Pig Clubs are also cool as fuck. Really WWII was about rationing fats, and eating fuckloads of veggies. If you can stomach it, not WWII but American Depression era (1929-1939) did a lot with food too. I had a teacher who said his grandfather (of that era) would take all the weeks leftovers and mix it all in a pot and cook it for Fridays meal.
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