This May 1943 Del Monte Foods ad encouraged the home front housewife to supplement their…
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The home front housewife was always looking for recipes that helped her stretch meat and…
I wanted to try another recipe from a magazine ad this week. We’ve been eating…
It’s about that time again. Where I live, people are starting to plant their gardens…
As promised, a veggie dish instead of cakes and pancakes today. Sometimes I think vegetable…
I’m trying something new this month. I want to find a few movies that were…
The second pancake recipe we tried was described as fluffy and old-fashioned. If they were…
I’ve talked before about how women found creative solutions to problems caused by war shortages.…
Here are two of the menus in the March 24, 1944 issue of The Family…
The home front housewife would need eyeglasses at some point in her life, so it…
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