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(More customer reviews)With Grandma's Wartime Kitchen, Joanne Lamb Hayes has filled a void in the culinary history of the 20th century. Those of us old enough to remember WWII, food rationing, victory gardens, and canning marathons will welcome this book, which puts between two covers so many of the meat-, butter- and sugar-stretching recipes women cooked in those lean years. They will also love reading the stories of how women coped and cooked, often working in munitions factories all day, then coming home to cook for their children. What imagination, what grace-- and all of this without dishwashers, microwave ovens and so many of the time-saving appliances we take for granted in this pampering age of plenty! The recipes look wonderful, as on-target today as they were in the 40s and I, for one, am eager to try them. But even if you never cook from this book, you'll love curling up with it. No dose of history was easier to swallow. Take a hard look at this book, Gen Xers. Keep it on a handy shelf. You can learn a lot from your grandmothers!

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An affectionate and informative look at women on the Home Front in the 1940s, Grandma's Wartime Kitchen presents more than 150 classic recipes (updated for today's kitchens) along with anecdotes, advertisements, advice, and archival recipes from a unique and defining period in America's history.With details and personal voices that make the material come to life, the book covers: * The U.S. government's food rules and ration books* Substitutes for rationed sugar, and the delicious dessert recipes they inspired* Stretching butter, meat, coffee, and other staples* Cooking and baking for the troops abroad* Wartime entertaining including Defense Parties, progressive parties, and a traditional Thanksgiving dinner using wartime commodities* Monday Meatloaf, Mother's Fried Chicken, Macaroni and Cheese, Apple Dumplings, Vermont Johnny Cake, Honey Apple Pie, and many other recipes. At a time when America is saluting the soldierswho fought in World War II, this one-of-a-kind collection offers a portrait of the courageous (and delicious) contributions of the women who stayed behind.

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