Wartime Kitchen

Chocolate Crispy Cakes for VE Day

Emergency Bread, Scones and Cakes

Ration Book Savoury Supper Dishes

Lest we Forget: Remembrance Sunday and The Wartime Kitchen Recipes

Remembrance Sunday Wartime Kitchen: Bacon Cakes, Baked Bean Tin Puddings & Sunday Tea

The Wartime Kitchen, Day Six and Scottish Vegetable & Meat Pudding Recipe

The Wartime Kitchen and Day Five – Ration Book Fish on Friday: Devilled Fish Recipe

The Wartime Kitchen and British Restaurants: Day Four – Black Pudding Hot-Pot Recipe

The Wartime Kitchen and Ration Book Cooking – Day Three: Eggs and Egg in a Nest: WW2 Mock Fried Egg Recipe

The Wartime Kitchen: Living off Rations with Ration Book Cooking – Day Two & Lord Woolton Pie

Welcome! I'm Karen; it’s lovely to see you here. I was born in South Africa, but I've lived all over the world, latterly calling North Yorkshire my home where I lived for many years before moving to SW France, although I'm now living in the Lincolnshire Wolds, a designated area of outstanding natural beauty, in an old Victorian cottage. I am a freelance food and travel writer, as well as a food stylist, and recipe developer, with a passion for art, travel, books, photography, seasonal food and especially cheese and wine. Please do get in contact with me if you have any questions about my work or commissioning me. Read More…

1940’s Golden Syrup Loaf Cake

1918 War Cake

Corned Beef & Potato Pie