The British Wartime Rations Cookbook

The British Wartime Rations Cookbook – A selection of wartime and ration book recipes on Lavender & Lovage, for the VE 80 Day celebrations

VE Day 80 Ration Book and Vintage Recipes

Today’s post “The British Wartime Rations Cookbook”- A selection of wartime and ration book recipes on Lavender & Lovage, for the VE 80 Day celebrations, is a collection of recipes from WWI and WWII.

From a few years ago, when I lived off rations for over a week, to recent recipes I have researched in the lead up to VE 80 Day, I’ve compiled them in one place, for ease of searching, and hopefully for you to cook and bake.

The British Wartime Rations Cookbook

Tea Time Recipes

• Wartime Gingerbread Carrot Cake
• Wartime Date and Walnut Loaf
• Wartime Eggless Fruit Cake (Vinegar Cake)

• Fry’s Condensed Milk Chocolate Cake
• Vanilla Butterfly Cakes
• Old-Fashioned Milk Chocolate Cake

• Ration Scones – 1918
• Jam Tart – 1918
• Gingerbread Cup Puddings – 1918

Savoury Vintage Tea Time Recipes

• Bacon Cakes
• “A Nice Supper Dish”
• Sausage Cakes

• CHEESE & LENTIL SLICE
• Salmon Fishcakes with Oatcake Crumb
• Whit Salad: Celebrate “VE Day” with an Authentic WWII Recipe

• Cheese & Lentil Savoury
• An Indian Recipe
• Saturday Pie

Vintage Dessert and Pudding Recipes

• School Jam Tart
• Wartime Syrup Tart (Treacle Tart)
• Jam & Coconut Sponge with Pink Custard

• Pineapple Upside Down Cake
• Mums Two Ingredient Strawberry Mousse
• Easy Cornflake Tart

Tea Loaves

• Sultana & Lemon Tea Loaf Cake
• Fruited Date & Walnut Tea Loaf
• Royal Tea Bread

• 1940’s Golden Syrup Loaf Cake
• 1950’s Condensed Milk Fruit Loaf
• Old-Fashioned Malt Loaf

Supper Dishes

• Old-Fashioned Tinned Salmon Sandwiches
• Egg in a Cup
• Yorkshire Potted Ham

Flans and Tarts

• Egg & Bacon Flan
• Old-Fashioned Tomato Pie
• School Dinner Cheese Flan

Vintage and Historical BeRo Recipes

• 1930’s Ginger Sponge Parkin
• Quick and Easy Spice Cake (Tea Loaf)
• Be-Ro Victoria Scones

The Famous BeRo Drop Scones (Scotch Pancakes)