The War-Time Kitchen : Nostalgic Food and Facts

by Marguerite Patten

Recalls how the housewives of Britain learned how to make do and kept the nation 'fighting fit'. This collection of recipes includes steak and potato pie, stuffed marrow and eggless sponge.

Genres: Cooking

112 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Hilda Marguerite Patten was a home econonomist, food writer and broadcaster.
Marguerite Patten fresh from the Ministry of Food during World War II represented post-war austerity cookery books; many selling in huge quantities and produced in colour by Paul Hamlyn. She was one of the early TV cooks to have her own programme.

She was awarded an OBE in 1991.