A Delicious weekend

in part ... especially after reading a past gift opened only earlier this year of the post war kitchen  ...A book in anticipation to read at some time. How Swiss cereal became muesli as we know today. Mock cream. The substitution or in dried format for common basic foods. The world shortage on goods. The off ration of foods over different years from the war end to 1954. The last food ration to end it all that came to be since 1940 was the longed for meat! Those who are fond of a juicy steak could at last get that taste buds satisfied once more ... 

The real differences even then not to overcook the garden to table root veg. The fats used from meat that did not have the known factors that as it is now. It was beneficial to have these fats for the reasons of that time. 

It is also interesting to read about the dock strike during the war at Southampton... The facts as to why only miners got extra rations and not other strenuous jobs given rise to the protests of the times in the continued eras of wrong doings in tough decades also ... 

And of the well known factors that life would never be like it was in 1939 again, with women filling in the male roles while they were needed elsewhere. Those women who enjoyed being out of the home. The freedom of choice for us at last ... 

We had learnt to prepare meals around jobs, and air raids. The imminent dangers during the war years. And the deep freezers still to come into the home along with washing machines, blenders and such. A insight again from all that is in museums, books and other media ... meant those chores that filled the day to keep home in cave style fashion were getting less. 

I remember the twin tub washing machines, where you still had to stand over, using those wooden tongs. On the internet one has seen too how we had freestanding kitchen units in all the workings ... 

This reminded me of my own maternal grandparents. And those still in the 1980s who still had gadgetry lasting years from the decades before. The twin tubs. And even in the 1990s a neighbour who still had the butchers sink, not the modern way of those in styling a modern kitchen. There was no bathroom either. It has since been remodernised on her death. 

I have visited in more recent times, the homes in the North where the toilet is still outside. Albeit the second toilet in the home now.