| One practise that existed in Stroud then, and still does today, was the
mutual trading of produce and rations.
With so many foods unavailable, cooking for a family became quite a
challenge! Recipe books like this one offered some innovative
alternatives like Nettle Soup and Eggless, Sugarless Gingerbread!
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So I used to go
rabbiting with these two blokes along in the fields and we...I mean one day we'd
get as many as twenty rabbits between us all, and that would be sort of six or
seven each. And [em] we used to paunch the rabbits and take 'em into Stroud
Market and sell 'em. Sixpence, [Laughs] and you know [Laughs]...and I'm
sure if we had our heads on then we'd have realised we could have make a
fortune. But then again you see, the object wasn't really money -
the object was to win the war and to sort of get everybody
fed.
EDWARD GODSELL
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my uncle.. used to
bring a fresh rabbit about once a month so my grandmother used to make a rabbit
stew.. I can remember trying whale meat but I can't remember what year that was,
they were selling it, and also [um] dried egg which was very prominent during
the war [yeh], which was a powder which my mother used to mix and it made...it
came out like a...almost like an omelette.. so I suppose we were quite
lucky [um] because of the shortage of meat and rabbit would [um] suffice.. Well
[er] we used to have it with things like [um] with things like fried bread, and
[um] a little bit of bacon, when the bacon was available. [Um, um] which I think
was once a week
KEITH GLOVER
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TRANSCRIPT Carrots were used a lot, grated
carrots. They made things moist, you know, they kept cakes moist and they,
you didn't have to use much sugar because they were sweet.... Oh, we had dried
egg yes, because we only had one fresh egg, a fortnight, [Laughter] but
[um] if you saved your scraps and knew somebody that had, who had you know a few
chickens, you could get a few extra eggs sometimes [yes] not that you had many
scraps, but I mean peelings and everything [yes] went for scraps in those days,
because [um] they used, to, if they kept chickens they got this balancer meal to
feed the chickens on.
BETTY WOJCIK
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