COOKING WITH RATIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 50, 28 February 1940, Page 12

COOKING WITH RATIONS.

WARTIME FOOD. Rationing is 'attracting the girls* to the cookery classes at the London County Council night schools. They are learning what can be done to make "meals -without coupons." The Ministry of Food is making a big drive to educate women and school girls in the best use of wartime rations. By.the end of February a comprehensive scheme of cookery ■ lectures and demonstrations will be in. operation throughout .the country. Recipes and suggestions are pouring into the- Ministry's offices, and all those of interest are being "vetted" and tested. Experts will plan the campaign and pool, ideas. Recipes for bread and cake were being tested for the Ministry at the Gas Light and Coke Company's kitchens. An official said.: . j "We find that many old recipes in use during the last war fall short of our modern standards.

"I am convinced that it was bad feeding which contributed largely to the people's lack of resistance in the 'flu epidemic of, 1918." -

Miss Dorothy yaughan, housecraft supervisor at the Women's Electrical Association, is helping the Ministry by testing various methods of economising in. butter and sugar. By gradually adding four tablespoonfuls of milk, warmed to blood heat, and beating.with a fork, she increases the four ounces of butter ration to six. and a half ounces.