Rationing Food

What Was Rationed

This is an example of what a rationing chart looked like throughout the war. These were the amounts that Americans were allowed to use each week. 

Ration Recipes

APPLE BROWN BETTY

Adapted from the “Sweets Without Sugar” pamphlet distributed by the Federal Food Board of New York in 1918.

Start to finish: Approximately 1 hour
Servings: 10

5 medium apples
1 ¼ cups bread crumbs
4 tablespoons of melted butter or cooking fat
¼ cup hot water
1 ½ tablespoons lemon juice
5 tablespoons dark corn syrup
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon cinnamon

Grease a glass or ceramic baking dish and preheat oven to 350° F.

Pare the apples and cut them into thin slices. Toss the bread crumbs with the melted fat in a small bowl. In a separate bowl, mix the hot water, lemon juice, corn syrup, salt and cinnamon together.

Distribute a third of the bread crumb mixture into the bottom of the greased dish and top with half of the sliced apples and half of the liquid. Repeat with another layer of bread crumbs, apples and liquid and top with the remaining bread crumbs. Bake in the oven for 45 minutes.

Spam

Ration Ticket

Here is an example of a Ration Coupon that is worth five points. 

Five points would get you meats, fish, fats and cheeses. 

Food Rationing and Nutrition

Food Rationing propaganda

World War Two Cook books

Take the Food Rationing Challenge!!

 

Using the Rationing laws set down in the 1940's, make a meal (or a weeks meals!) for your family by following the rationing recipes below. What have you learned by cooking this way? How much food do you think your family wastes each week? How would you feel if food rationing laws were put back into everyday life?