Necessity and Creativity with Recipes
Historically, creative minds played a valuable role when it came to utilizing limited resources, in this case, food. Most meat was rationed, as was sugar, processed foods and lard. In the Victory Recipe File, Emily W. Leister, home economics director of the National Association Service, assembled a "Meatless, Sugarless and Economy Recipes…Tested and Illustrated" file.
The actual recipe box is shaped like a stove. The top lifts off and the recipes are filed inside. Some of the recipes include victory walnut cake, bologna cups with peas, sausage stuffed apples with spaghetti, toasted frankfurter bread rolls with cheese, frankfurter crowned roast, molded potato salad and other unique meals. Each recipe card has a black and white photograph of the product, so the cook would know what to look for. The recipes called for less rationed food and more of what was easily accessible. Leister's creative recipes brought sparks of hope and delicious flavor in times where such luxuries were unimaginable.
1995:092:004:A-B SDAHM Donated by Threads of Memories
