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Home Made – Home Grown

Herefordshire Lore collected a compendium of good advice, information and anecdote on food during the Second World War. Around forty people shared their memories of war-time food.

"Having very few ingredients to cook with led women to invent their own, closely guarded recipes."

"We had to dig up the lawns to plant potatoes: Aran Pilot as Early, Majestic was an old favourite while Kind Edward was a soft potatoes that the slugs liked!”

"My mother said I couldn't join the Women's Land Army - so I wrote to them and that was it! I was a land girl!"

“The small holdings down at Canon Bridge were mostly self-sufficient. The only things we bought in were tea and sugar, not much else.”

“We used to drink a glass of cabbage water with our dinner! They used to say: it’s good for you,’ well, it was – it made you run to the toilet! That’s why is was good for you!”