These booklets and more on Canada during wartime, including nutrition, rationing and food are available at For a taste of rationing, try one of these two War Cake recipes. Robin Hood, 1943 Josephine Gibson, 1943 Vital Publications My predecessors, Home Economists with the federal and provincial governments, electric companies and major food corporations jumped on board with advice columns, recipes and pamphlets designed to help housewives succeed on the home front. In addition to periodic rationing of sugar, coffee, tea, butter and meat between 19 there were also calls to plant victory gardens, preserve produce, collect fat and bones for munition production and to eliminate any food waste. This will give everyone a glimpse of what rationing was like for the “Housesoldiers” at home and what was considered a treat from home on the front lines.Ĭanadian housewives, aka “Canadian Housesoldiers” were encouraged to “Cook to Win” and prepare “appetizing and nourishing meals that protect and preserve the health of their families.” The challenge was to do so with fewer resources.Įconomy Recipes for Canada’s Housesoldiers (Toronto: Canada Starch, 1943) Wearing a poppy, participating in Remembrance Day activities, pausing for a minute of silence at 11 am, visiting a local veterans’ cemetery, or writing to Canadian troops currently serving are some ways we can remember and honour those who have served.Īnother way to start a conversation to remember is through experiencing some war time recipes. Remembrance Day is a time to remember the sacrifices of all those who have served on our behalf in times of war, armed conflict and peace. A molasses raisin cake made with rationed ingredients and often sent to the frontlines.Īlso Read: War Time Applesauce Cookies , Extending Butter – A Rationing Hack from War Time, Tasty Vegetable Loaf from WWII And don't forget to share the recipe with others on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, or Twitter.Try war time recipes to start a Remembrance Day conversation around your table.
Have you tried this recipe? Provide your feedback by giving a star rating and/or leaving comments. Instead of water, you can use any plant-based milk to make these cookies.You can even add pistachios if you like them to be crunchy. To make vegan oatmeal raisin cookies, just replace pistachios with raising in this recipe.Instead of cacao nibs, you can use chocolate chips also to make these cookies as oatmeal chocolate cookies.Rolled oats will be good to use as they retain their structure and turn crunchy.Because baking is more of science, every ingredient plays an important role in the final product's taste and texture. I’m not sure of liquid sweetener as the composition differs.
If this is not available to you, use brown sugar or powdered jaggery, or raw cane sugar.
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