WW2 Rationing....Recipe

This is mainly aimed at the more mature amongst us. Thinking back to the time of rationing when a lot of home made recipes appeared.

Has anyone got a basic recipe for Bread Pudding please (not Bread and Butter Pudding). Up until the time I left home my mum used to make this on a regular basis and I have a hankering again! I've picked a recipe up from the internet that was produced in the 1940's but I know it's not the same. I've also spoken to my dear old mum this evening who has it stored mentally but unfortunately her memory is going and she couldn't remember the ingredients. So can anyone help me out here please?

 

Wotcha Sheal,

We were just talking about you, were your ears burning?

I picked it up from Mum, who was an army cook in the war & then went into the school meals service, I didn't stand a chance really.

Wet & scrunge the bread into a paste, hand full of sugar & currants or sultanas or mixed dried fruit and a bit of cinnamon or nutmeg.

Sprinkle of sugar on top after it came out of the oven.

 

300g Stale bread
50g brown sugar
300g dried fruit
1.5 tbs black treacle
50g butter
1 beaten egg,
1 heaped tsp ground mixed spice
A little milk if needed.

1.Soak the bread in water until soft.
2. Squeeze the water out of the bread.
3.Melt the treacle and butter together. Don't boil.
4.Add the the other ingredients to the butter and treacle mix and stir together. Should be a bit soft.
5.Bake at Gas Mark 4, 350/180 degrees until done.
6. Let it cool in the tin.
7. Enjoy with a cup of tea.

 

Talking about me......now you've got me worried, have I misbehaved and don't know it?

Thanks Zigs. I think you're recipe is the right one, but what little my mum could remember, she seems to think there was margarine in it.

Thanks Lea, yours is the recipe I picked up on the internet. There was no black treacle in my mums, no brown sugar or egg either I think. I'll have to experiment won't I?

 

Not staff talk, just with a special friend.

Mum never put marge in it, didn't get a chance, I used to eat the long bars of summer county marge before she got a look in. Used to eat the tubs of vaseline too.

 

I got right excited about this one and raced immediately to get my (replica) government issue war time cookery book, with recipes in it aimed at saving food and fuel. But lo and behold, bread pudding is surprisingly not in it. Still, I've followed @Zigs's one a few times and it always goes down well. In one variation from Zig's one, I chucked in some ground ginger, worked well.

 

Got a load of ends of loaves saved in the freezer ready for the oncoming storm.

 

Strange that Clueless, the week before last I was in a WW2 museum here. Thumbing through a recipe book there - there wasn't a recipe for it either. I'll give Zigs one a go I think, minus your interpretation with ginger which I don't like.

 

Just watched a prog about the prison camps on the island during WWII

 

Zigs, I can guess at the special friend, but not the conversation, now you've got me thinking Oooooo I do hate it when people do this, it does my head in!

Vaseline! I bet that greased up your workings!

Dare I ask, what oncoming storm?

 

Ahh, yes, I was at Knockaloe last weekend......the prison camp long gone though, I was there for the Royal Agricultural Show, a great day out.

 

We'm coming to see you one day

Financial storm, not a weather one

 

Was it a magic friend? Was it Ray from 2unlimited?

 

Coming to see me......that'd be nice!

You've weathered the storm before Zigs.......I'm with you .....but not here on open forum.

 

Have two recipe
1
No measurments sorry
Stale bread
Suet or Dipping
Sultanans Currants
Pinch of Spice
Brown sugar
Chopped peel

Put stale bread in a basin and pour boiling water over it. Let it stand for a few minutes, then squeeze dry. Beat some dripping or suet in to the bread, add sultanas, currants, sugar, spice and peel to taste, and mix well.Grease a pie dish, sprinkle the sides and bottom with brown sugar, and put mix in, Bake in a moderate oven till brown (45 minutes)

2
100g(4oz)butter or margarine
8 think slices wholemeal bread
250ml(half pint) milk
50g(2oz) chopped mixed candied peel
350g(12oz) mixed dried fruit
1 apple, peeled and grated
75g(3oz) brown sugar
45ml(3tbsp) marmalade
75g(3oz) self raising flour
2 eggs, beaten
Squeeze of lemon juice
5ml(1tsp) ground cinnamon

Put butter into a small bowl on the hob to melt ,Sock the bread in the milk in a mixing bowl until soft. Add the dried fruit, peel, apple, sugar, marmalade, flour, eggs, lemon juice and cinnamon. Beat very thoroughly together. Pour half the melted butter/margarine onto the mix, beat and put into a greased roasting tin. Pour on the remaining butter. Cook for roughly 2-2 and a half hours or until set, leave tto cool sprinkle with icing sugar and cut into slabs, make a cup of tea and eat