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I will attempt to update wartime recipes to modern tastes, in order to keep up with new trends, attitudes and approaches to food and it's preparation while still keeping a traditional British wartime feel to recipes. I will start by making recipes to the letter and move forward from there to encompass different modern diets. I will attempt to make meals first fit in to a popular diet plan and then will move on to Vegetarian/Vegan versions. So that everyone can enjoy British wartime recipes. This experiment is for my own amusement as well as to feel closer to my grandparents over the years they cooked and lived through hard times.

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Wednesday, 23 May 2012

Pineapple turnover

Yesterday we had shop bought kidney pie with chips and vegetables and a homemade pineapple turnover. Pineapple was an unusual treat bought over by American G.I's. to impress the English girls!

I however had a can that was still in date, but had been in my cupboard for about a year. I was never going to use it otherwise, so for the purposes of this recipe imagine I got them on the Black Market. Shhh! Careless talk costs lives!

Pineapple turnover.

Can of Pineapples
4 tsp Honey
227g self raising flour
85g sugar
85g margarine
1/4 pint of milk and water.

Take a cake tin that has a removable bottom and line it with grease proof paper. Grease the tin first to help the paper stick, then grease the paper. Line the bottom with pineapple and honey.

In a separate bowl rub the margarine into the flour and sugar to form breadcrumbs. Then add the milky water (hold back a little of the milky water and you can add the juice from the pineapple can if you want instead) and mix until you have a smooth batter. Pour this into the tin over the pineapple.

Place in a preheated oven at gas mark 4 for approximately 45 minutes or until golden brown and firm. Leave in the tin to cool for 5 minutes. Then remove the tin and slide off the base. Take off the grease proof paper and voila! Your turnover is done! If you don't have pineapple why not use cooking apple and add a tsp cinnamon to the flour? You can use berries or pears too!

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