Simple Vegetable Cooking (1940) Publisher: Royal Horticultural Society
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Simple Vegetable Cooking (1940)
Publisher: Royal Horticultural Society
This 1940 publication serves as an essential historical guide to wartime home economics, specifically crafted to assist with the preparation of home-grown produce during the era of food rationing.
Key Highlights:
Historical Purpose: Created as a companion to the Ministry of Agriculture’s famous “Growmore” Bulletin No. 1, “Food from the Garden”.
Nutritional Focus: Provides instruction on simple cooking methods designed to preserve the vitamins in vegetables, a critical concern during the World War II era.
Archival Content: Spanning 28 pages, the volume includes an index and features full-page advertisements for various food products of the period.
Collection: This digital record is preserved by the Wellcome Library and is available under a Creative Commons Public Domain Mark.
"Simple Vegetable Cooking" (1940) is a historical guide published by the Royal Horticultural Society. Designed as a companion to the "Growmore" Bulletin No. 1, it offered British households practical, vitamin-conscious recipes for managing vegetable intake during World War II food rationing. The volume includes contemporary period advertisements and a detailed index.
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