An Cooking

Picnic 1946 stylee!

As I havent been doing any cooking worth blogging, I thought Id share some of my recipe ephemera. This little Ministry of Food leaflet belonged either to my MIL or my husbands grandmother. It came with the house, as did most of the really old recipe cuttings that I have managed to gather together.

The cover is interesting as it features both the image of a packed lunch for the worker, in a factory, and also the traditional picnic hamper for a day out in the countryside.

on the back page is the leaflet number, there must have been a series, but this is the only one I have, and the date June 1946.

Here are some of the pages, just in case you were wondering why the recipes dont seem to follow on from each other, the leaflet is one sheet of paper folded, so not too easy to scan!

The recipes are not too bad really, athough I dont fancy Butter or Margarine extender, but I guess that was what you had to do when food was rationed.
Whod have thought that there would be hamburgers and coleslaw on the picnic menu in 1946!


Flapjacks are pretty much the same then as now, but coffee essence - bleurgh!