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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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Monday, 21 October 2013

Fish Cakes and Chips.

This was a fairly simple recipe to do and tastes really nice. It is one of my own based on what we had and ww2 rationing.
For the chips. Slice up some potatoes into chip shapes. Pop them in jug of water and microwave them for about 3 minutes before draining them and putting them on a baking tray cover them with frylight. On gas mark 7 for 15-20 minutes or until they look done and are easy to pierce with a fork.
For the fish cakes:
Recipe:
2 tins of mackerel in brine
30g oats
1 small onion
1 tbsp of vinegar or lemon juice (I used white wine vinegar)
Black pepper to season
1 tsp mixed spice or coriander.
Method:
Mash the ingredients together in a bowl with a fork.  Hold back 2 tsp of the  oats.
frylight a baking tray and place two metal pastry cutters on it. Fill the pastry cutters with the mixture pushing firmly. Top with the oats and place in a pre-heated oven at gas mark 7 for 20 minutes. (The same as the chips!)
We served ours with peas.

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