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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, 18 November 2013

World War 2 Party!

On sunday we had a fantastic World War two party. There were lots of themed foods. Here's a list of the foods we prepared.
Mock duck - Meat
Mock Goose - Vegetarian
Mock Beef Rissoles - Vegetarian
Mealie Pudding (Donkey) - Vegetarian
Spam and mustard sandwiches
Corned Beef and horseradish sandwiches
Cheese and salad cream sandwiches
Marmite sandwiches
Pork pies
Scotch eggs
Chocolate pudding (contained potatoes)
Homemade vanilla Ice cream
Tea
Orange squash
Alcoholic ginger beer
Our friends bought along:
Potato dumplings - Vegetarian
Salad
Cherry tomatoes
German christmas biscuits
German ham
6 cans of Spam!
After dinner we then watched and took the mickey out of old 40's films with really funny stilted acting. We finished up with a friendly game of Escape from Colditz. The polish won by climbing the walls with rope sneaking out through the German quarters, the British came second by using multiple "Do or Die" cards, Dutch came third by tunnelling to safety and American's came last. It would have been tied last but one of the American's got shot by the Germans whilst trying to escape! The Germans played a very good well thought out game too!