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scary stuff out of Europe. In the event of a prolonged outage would be scary. Especially if I'm in the city when it occurs. Seems like my campers gas fridge might work but my solar cuts out when the grid goes down and no battery. To say nothing of water as well.
This is why I eat a lot of carrots.
So I can guard my single backup can of baked beans in the dark.
Sadly, the carrot thing is a myth. Deliberately spread by the British government during the war, no less, as an explanation for why they could track German bombers in the dark without letting on that they'd invented radar.
Carrots were one of the few foods it was easy to get lots of. Many fascinating recipes for carroty marmalade!
TIL! and that's really interesting.
The baked beans remain at risk!
The government released a whole pile of food related PSAs at the time, telling people about substitutions they could make, thrifty ways to stretch rations further or clever recipes that used food they could get easily in place of using imports.
The "Ministry of Food" put in a ton of work. I've got a cookbook that recreates a lot of their material. It's very carrot-heavy!
What is this cookbook called?
The Ministry of Food by Jane Fearnley Whittingstall
Thankyou, I'm interested in retro cooking and historical recipes so I'll check this out at some point.
Itโs only a dinky wee little book, but within the specific sphere of historical intheresting itโs quite good. Not strictly a cookbook - thereโs a decent section on how to start (and what to include in) a victory garden