Cooking with the Home Front Housewife
A warm homemade roll is a welcome addition to almost any meal. My seventeen-year-old daughter has been baking homemade bread almost daily, so I gave her this recipe to try out. My two oldest daughters are tremendous bakers and I love when they bake for me. This recipe makes about 2 dozen rolls. This is…
World War II era magazine advertisers often used recipes featuring their products to entice housewives to buy their brands. I wanted to use a recipe from one of those magazine ads this month. I chose a hot sandwich made with canned meat that looked versatile, quick, and filling. Canned meats were popular because they were…
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The second recipe in the "Baking without...Milk" series is this delicious coffee cake. It's from an article in the January 1945 issue of Woman's Day magazine. I also have a 1941 recipe booklet called The Bread Basket that I've been wanting to use for a while. The booklet is full of bread recipes using Fleischmann's Yeast. There…
Today I am revisiting the January 1945 issue of Woman's Day to do some "Baking Without...Milk". While fresh milk was never rationed in the United States, shortages and additions to rationing were always a possibility. Woman's Day wanted to provide women with options when it came to baking for their families no matter what was…
One of a home front housewife's jobs was to pack lunches for her family. Her husband, if not at war, would need a lunch for work. Her children needed packed lunches for school. If she was part of the growing number of women working outside the home, she would need a lunch herself. Of course,…
My birthday was this week. What better way to celebrate than to bake a WWII era cake? I've had the Pillsbury's Diamond Anniversary Recipes cookbook for a while and haven't had a chance to make anything from it. This seemed like a good time to do so. The Cookbook was published in celebration of Pillsbury's 75th anniversary…
Today's menu comes from the March 24, 1944 issue of The Family Circle. In 1944, the magazine was still a weekly publication distributed at grocery stores across the United States. Each issue included lots of advertisements for products commonly found at the local supermarket, some short fiction, Hollywood news, and lots of recipes. I pulled a menu…
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