CORRESPONDENCE

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 138, 8 December 1945, Page 6

CORRESPONDENCE

FOOD RATIONS

(To the Editor.) Sir,—l read with shame the letter I signed "Always Hungry and No Visitors" in tonight's "Post." Have any of us a right to complain of our rationing when there are thousands of | children starving throughout the world? Your correspondent says tjhat Germany is provided for till April; I hope she does not think that that means that the people of Europe will have six ounces of butter, two ounces of tea, and Is 6d vyorth of meat per week as well as unlimited milk, bread, potatoes, cheese, fruit, vegetables, and cooking fats, not to mention other more luxury goods. Your correspondent says she is tired of her monotonous diet of bread, potatoes, eggs, prunes, and grapefruit. I suggest she asks her milkman for some milk, or her greengrocer for some green vegetables (or better still, grows some vegetables for herself). Then she might suggest to her grocer that she would like cheese, sultanas (to vary the prunes), or macaroni, golden syrup, bacon, dried peaches, tinned fish or vegetables, jellies, plain biscuits, to mention only a few of the wide variety of unrationed food available to us And unrationed meat— surely her butcher is not always out !of liver, kidneys, brains, sweetbreads, tongues, or sausages. We are a family of two. Neither of us gets home before five but we manage to have varied and interesting meals with meat every day and we have recourse to no extra rations or black market. We have as much cake and biscuits as we want by using the wide variety of lards and vegetable fats available. I suggest your correspondent, substitutes for butter in all her favourite cake and biscuit recipes a slightly smaller quantity of lard, phis a pinch of salt, a drop of Water, and a drop of lemon juice. If she will write to me care of this paper I will send her numerous recipes nol only for cakes and biscuits without butter but also for using unrationed meat, tinned fish, and the many other wholesome protein foods available to us.—l am. etc..

NEVER HUNGRY AND LOTS OF VISITORS.