Probably pretty well, I make my own bread, stuff in the stores is just too expensive and I'm not fond of eating foam rubber! Also can tomatoes when I can get my hot little hands on them (we can't grow a garden where I live, city makes you pull them out, says they are a waste of water), make kick butt garlic dill pickles and relish, jams and jellies and quick breads, candy for Xmas gifts. Occasionally I make home made noodles and ravioli, lot of work but are SO good, learned to make perogies years back and boy are they FILLING! Really good though, and simple ingredients. Also make a "turnover" beerock, got tired of messing with the little dough that goes over them and just started rolling out circles, filling, sealing and baking. They are great to take for lunch. Only thing that would seriously bother e would be coffee being rationed, I really, really like my coffee! Sugar would be a pain to deal with since I do so much baking also. Think I'd have to make a stab at making butter. Guess I'd just have to up and move to the country so I could have a bigger garden!! Oh, btw, bread and veg/fruit were never rationed, unless the veg and fruit were canned. ;_)
@@erinb4237 Hi Erin! Soy was not rationed, although we didn't have the vast array of soy based products back then either. But I'll bet you would do fine!! Stay safe! 💖🍸
This is cool!!! My parents passed away, and in the process of packing up the house... I found my Grandmother's WWII Cooking for Victory cook book........ this is EXACTLY how the burgers were made and you are spot on!!!!!! A++ young lady..... you are historically 100% accurate....Great vid.. make more!!!
Hey Scott!! First of all, my sincerest sorrow for your parents, I know how difficult that is. 💕 I can't tell you how much your comments mean to me! Treasure that cookbook! History through food is magical, especially coming from your own family. I have been studying food history for about 30 years...so thank you!!! I promise, I have so much more! I have about 70 more videos up there now so enjoy! And lots more coming your way! Please let me know if you try any recipes out of your Grandmother's cookbook, hearing these stories are gold to me! And if you are interested in another WW2 recipe (where I show the food ration stamps...ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-g5xzgPRpO10.html 💖🍸
My mom used to make meatloaf patties for hamburger night. She would add oatmeal and a bit of breadcrumbs with all kinds of yummy seasoning and a bit of liquid smoke. They were heavenly and all of us remember our mother as a fantastic cook. She just remembers struggling and coming up with some creative ways to make meals stretch. I love my momma so much.
Hi Living Life! (I love your profile name!!) it always warms my hear when one of my videos sparks a childhood memory and it is shared with me!! Actually, it's an honor. This is so beautiful and you are very lucky! It's true, getting creative with limited proteins can be tough. But during WW2 they came up with all kinds of creative ways! Thank you so much for stopping by and sharing our memories! I hope you have fun exploring retro history through food here! 💖🍸
I first learned about adding oatmeal to burgers as a stretcher from Food Historian John T. Edge and his book "Hamburgers and Fries: An American Story" I've made many recipes from that wonderfully readable book. I first learned of the Jucy Lucy burger from that book. Great burger! You can still get reprints of the book on amazon. Thanks for sharing your memories!
What nice recipe. Your sheet pan looks like 2 of ours......proud warriors cooking great food! LOVED your "postcard from the past" (what I call these insights) about the sharing chewing gum. Such a zeroed in peek into every day life back then. Thanks for sharing, Jill!
The biggest problem with food rationing was food fatigue. People tended to have to eat the same thing everyday/week, and whilst it was nutritious, you just got fed up eating the same thing all the time. Home cooks became inventive in making the food ration taste good, and last for the full week.
Thank you so much for this David! Were you around during food rationing or are you a food historian like me? You are so right. That is why all the food manufacturing companies came out with cookbooks, pamphlets. commercials, etc filled with ways to get new ideas on the dinner table. Well, breakfast and lunch too, lol. I hope you enjoy my many other retro/food history episodes! 💖🍸
@@yesterkitchen I have an interest in WWII, including food rationing. I've just discovered your channel, and am enjoying all your clips. I try and cook a WWII food ration meal at least once a month. Some are very taste, but some are certainly not up to a modern palate. eg All my family liked my Woolton pie, but all agreed it needed some beef and spices to make it better !!!!!!!!!!!!
@@davidhutchison3343 That period was crazy interesting! Here is my other ration episode where I show the ration stamps. So honored that you are here! I hope you enjoy the rest! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-g5xzgPRpO10.html
The real key to beating food fatigue is don't serve it the same way every day. You can have fish and potatoes 20 different ways in the same month and have different flavors. ( other ingredients changing with each meal.) Like breading fish and making potatoes pancakes for breakfast and serving fish meatpies for lunch, and fish and chips for supper. ( iv done this when low on food and never got tired of it and it was the same kind of fish!)
My Parents met in 1942. Thankful and grateful for all the sacrifices that were made overseas and at home for Freedom. Really enjoy your videos and the recipes and history behind them.
With everyone having such specific dietary needs/slash preferences, I can’t even imagine rationing. Always an interesting perspective from Yesterkitchen! I really enjoy the videos.
Thank you for sharing that, I love to hear these things!! Mustard and parsley would be delicious additions! Of course this was out of a 1942 war ration cookbook and cooking was kind of bland back then. But..... yay got hubby! LOL!
Love your show. The. Music is great My mother used to make hamburgers with extenders like breadcrumbs or oats.I never knew the other stuff she’d put in those patties but the ones you made look like those tasted. In the 50 s and early 60s if you had a large family and only one income you extended meat and got creative with bean dishes. Thanks for the! memories I think.
Lol! Hi Steven! Welcome! And thank you so much! Very true about the fifties and sixties! Extenders bed families! And I'm honored if Brock back memories for you! Even though you say you think, LOL! When I hear one of my videos brought back a childhood memory, it makes my heart full! So thank you so much for sharing that! Have a great weekend! 🍸❤️
My (adoptive) parents we both born in the 1920s. Dad served in the Navy during WWII. I grew up hearing them talk about those times. I actually have some ration books that mom kept.
Hi BigRedPower59! Wow, you must have heard so many fascinating stories! I am lucky enough to have some of the ration book as well! I showed them in my 2nd WW2 food ration episode, Tamale Pie. How fortunate you are! I hope you have fun exploring more retro history through food here! 🍸💖
this episode had so many facts i didn't know... so fun... im watching episodes while i bake my sister a birthday cake shaped like a shark... no rationing here... thanks for keeping me company in the kitchen!
Oh wow Jessica, you found one of my older ones! Yep, we really dont know how good we have it until we visit the past. I am honored to keep you company in the kitchen anytime!!! I bet that shark cake looks wonderful! Happy birthday to your sister!!! 🍸💖
The thumb nail for this video has been popping up on my home page a lot today and every time I get a quick glimpse of it from the corner of my eye I see a yellow layer cake. Now I want cake. :)
Oh Kami, I am so very sorry to hear that! I hope you are recovering! The dough hook is a great idea! You are so right about overmixing! I assume you have it down!
Hi Sarah! Wow, how special! The country sure pulled together during that time. I absolutely love to hear the stories so thank you so much for sharing! I am truly honored! Have the most beautiful day!🍸❤️
I have a letter written by a great uncle to his mother during WWI - in it he describes leaving Ohio, spending New Year’s in NYC, and shipping off to France as well as the war itself. As he describes New York he tells her he had his first “hot dog”, which he describes as a type of Frankfurter würst with a taste similar to Weiss Würst in a bread roll. Literally a German-American describing a relabeled German food using other German foods as he ships off to fight Germany.
Wow! What a treasure! I love the way he described it. The magic of hand written letters, beautiful family history. You are so right about the description! Thank you so much for sharing this!!
@@yesterkitchen The letter itself is a special keepsake - it stands as the longest letter home written by an enlisted man, having filled up 10 sheets of blank newsprint, and weighed over 5lbs when delivered. Years ago the letter and the newspaper articles detailing its arrival were donated to the National World War I museum.
Just made these for my dog. I used ground beef only. The 1# frozen chub thawed. Since it's a small amount of onion and dogs can have cooked onions (never raw onions) I figured it would stretch the beef and put some good carbs and fiber in his diet. I have toe world's pickiest dog. So happy he liked this recipe. Next time, I'm going to use ground turkey. I made 4 patties and cooked two. I'm freezing the other two and will cook them later. I did taste some before he got it and it wasn't bad either.
Hi countrygirl! Lucky dog! Ww2 food rations were tough. Today were all so lucky we can make whatever we like and feed our fur babies whatever they like! Turkey sounds great! Have a beautiful weekend! 🍸❤️
Hi, this time frame is so interesting to me. My family would have a rude awakening when they realized how little 4oz of cheese is! I would make this recipe. Are you still making videos? I'm enjoying a journey through time!
Thank you so much for your kind words! I had so much fun creating this series and sharing my passion. Unfortunately, I am no longer filming and enjoying retirement. But there's about 250 videos for you to travel through time with! So happy you're enjoying your journey and I hope you continue!
For those who don't know, we've all burning in liberty burgers. McDonald's sells them. They're called the McDonald's burger, the big Mac, cheeseburger, a quarter pounder double quarter pounder. The only thing they don't put in those burgers are the oats and evaporated milk. Everything else is probably the same. I don't even think they're full beef. But they have the chopped chopped. Onions and also not many people know this, but theynly use 1/2 a slice of cheese on their burgers.
A lot of the rationing you're talking about was in the UK because most of their food was imported. in the US it wasn't as bad, but things were still rationed for sure. :) They're basically tiny meatloafs! so cute :)
Welcome to YesterKitchen! Very true, I know the UK had it worse. And these are really quite good! I hope you have fun exploring more retro food history here!
That's funny, I always do my hamburger that way. Right when I bring it in from the store I mix it up and freeze it with all the ingredients in it already. It's 2022 and now because of prices I add smashed beans to it also. Really by the time I finished there is little meat and more oatmeal and beans, with a hint of meat. I leave out the pork it's to expensive and switched to ground turkey instead. Hamburger's are out, with 2 hamburger patties you could put those two broken up into a whole casserole instead and feed your family for a couple of meals.
Hi Cathy! I love this. Sadly these recipes are needed once again but your version sounds great! I am grateful to the housewives of the depression who passed down these delicious treasures! And ground turkey is a wonderful option!
Hi Rpaul! I know the UK struggled huge with their own rationing. 10 d is a pound, isn't it? That would be more than this recipe. But I'm always learning! So happy you stopped by! I hope you have fun learning more American history through food here! 💖🍸
@@yesterkitchen I think 10 d is 10 pennies or 10 p. There were 12 p to a shilling and 20 shillings to a pound back then. Since then they went to 100 pence to the pound in the late 60s
Twenty-eight ounces of meat per week is a lot of meat for me, but 4 ounces of cheese?!? I’m’na be trading supplies with my neighbors! BTW - substitute tomato juice for the evaporated milk and that’s my mom’s meatloaf, which I still make to this day.
Hi EastSider! LOL! I know, that's not a lot of cheese! And I love that not only is this almost your mom's meatloaf, but that you still make it!! That is truly a childhood memory!! 🍸💖
This is basically a meatloaf paddie, LOL. I love making hamburgers out of leftover meatloaf so this works well for me. I know people that use rolled oats instead of torn up bread, bread crumbs, or cracker crumbs when making meatloaf so this is nothing strange to me. When I was a kid 60/70s my Mama would occasionally make a meatloaf using half ground pork and half ground beef so that is normal to me as well😁. My Mama was about 9 in 1942. I just asked her if she remembers these burgers but she doesn't. She remembers rationing but not the meals they ate. Typical kid, LOL
LOL! There had to be lots of filler during WW2. And I love that you have your mama to ask! They really are good and a great way to experience history, even though she never of them! How cool that you have someone that lived it in the family!! Tyupical kid...LOL! 🍸💖
Fun fact, food rationing actually made people healthier. Mainly among the poorer classes who actually got better food under rationing than they would have otherwise. And while the food might not have been Michelin star rated, it kept you healthy and alive. There's a reason that even after WW2 was won, the UK continued food rationing for a time, as the benefits were so desirable from a national health standpoint.
@@yesterkitchen I am not. But this is actually not that hard to research. I saw some other you tube channels talking about the WW2 food rationing in the UK, and that spurred me to look into it further. I am actually an engineer, but i like history, and i like food. So a match made in gastronomical heaven?!? ^-^?
@@jeromethiel4323 Yep, it is not that hard to research, just curious. But you definitely have made a match in gastronomical heaven! That is why I do what I do! :) I hope you have fun exploring mre history through food here! 🍸💖
I have explained this in previous videos. I rarely do "fake tastes" because I know it tastes great. I have already tested and researched all my recipes several times. And I don't like to continue speaking with my mouth full of food. But rest assured, everything is wonderful or I would never share it. 💖🍸
Hi Frank! Welcome! I'm so happy you are here! Thank you so much! My Betty Boop was a gift so sadly I am not sure. But in my newer episodes I always wear a YesterKitchen apron which you can find here (along with shot glasses, coffee mugs, flasks, etc). I hope you have fun exploring retro history though food here! www.customizedgirl.com/s/YesterKitchen
Why did we stop rationing during war time? We've been in several wars since, but instead of rationing, things like gas prices go up. I really feel like we'd be more united in the war effort if rich and poor had to make the same sacrifices, as in days gone by. My Mom was born in 1940 so she and her mother could 'skin a flea for its tallow!'
Yep, and now you know why they called them Victory Meat Patties. We can learn so much about history through food and that is exactly what my channel is about! And they really are good! ;) Thank you for stopping by! 🍸💖
I was hoping that things would be the victory steaks in Britain they did not have this kind of meat available they only had scraps that they used and they use vegetables to make patties out of what little they did have that’s what I was hoping to find was that vegetarian recipe was just a little bit of meat or pure vegetables there’s actually an entire video Showing a kitchen making these in the 40s
My channel is primarily focused on American comfort food and these were our Victory Patties. But same thought in the UK.... Make the most of what you have. I absolutely love to hear about the "steak" version. We did the sane thing..... Increase veggies to supplement the lesser amount of meat. I do have non-meat recipes. I'll be adding a few more World War II ration cooking episodes in 2020 and will look for a good one for you. Thank you so much for your story! It's what my channel is all about! I love to hear about food history! If you are interested... I have one more food rations episode ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-g5xzgPRpO10.html
@@yesterkitchen I also adore history, and being both a good cook, and a very good eater I am thrilled to find this channel. Big thank you to Tasting History for including you on the pumpkin pie show!
@@BuckHelton Awww Max, he's such a great guy! Well welcome!! I am so happy you are here! And being a great cook and eater...you will have so much fun! Look forward to hearing from you again! 💖🍸
Hi Kevin, great question! Even though so many things were rationed during WW2, bread (along with fruit) were not among them. Going into WW2 the US had a massive stockpile of wheat and this was never an issue. And thankfully so because bread (in some form) was extremely popular as a filler to stretch rationed meat. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have fun exploring more history through food here! Have a great day! 💖🍸
Hi Joseph! Recipes needed fillers due to the rationing but Americans still wanted their beloved burger. I love food history, it tells us so much about the past. I hope you have fun exploring more retro history through food here! Have a beautiful weekend! 🍸❤️
Yeah, I get the filler, but it's also the blend of beef and pork. Really makes it seem like mini meatloafs. Which would make fantastic sandwiches, the meatloaf sandwich with the leftovers the next day is the best part.
Hi Robin's Nest. Not the case. I think you are new here, but my mission is to follow the exact recipe as written to honor the past. That said, I always love to hear how people "update" the recipes presented. If you try it, please let me know. But they were great as is. :)
Thanks for the PSA! 😉 Very true but my channel is equally about the history of the dish. I'm getting better at talking about the history while I'm cooking. 🍸
@@yesterkitchen The history is important for many foods, especially wartime foods, many of which aren't seen commonly today. So thank you for teaching us about the history.
Don't hate that we are bigger, and more capable of providing for ourselves, ol Tommy boy. Also, you are welcome for the weapons, armament, and food that we gave you. Fyi, it's called fries, not chips ya wanker. Oh, and Montgomery was a flake. Churchill, he was awesome, probably because his mom was American. Hopefully, I'm not being to cheeky. Stiff upper lip ol boy.
Well, gee whiz...maybe, if you hadn't got rid of the rightful Stuart Kings, and hadn't imported Germans to rule you and VIOLATE THE RIGHTS THAT THE COLONIES WERE PROMISED in order to support your corrupt mercantile interests, we'd have been willing to give you EVEN MORE FOOD, SHIPS, TANKS, PLANES VEHICLES ANF FUEL...and you might even have been able to grow enough food...never mind, you still can't. Of course Britain bravely fought the German armor in Normandy...With CANACIAN BLOOD....and now you send us your simp prince and his social climbing dutchess.
i DIDN'T COME HERE FOR A HISTORY LESSON THAT MY GRANDPARENTS TOLD ME ALREADY GET ON WITH THE RECIPE WAST MY TIME THANK GOD FOR FAST FORWARD to see how to make meatloaf
