Victory Kitchen Podcast

Head on over to $ubstack (link in bio) to check out the first monthly choice for my WWII film club: Pressure!
And don't worry, I clearly mark where spoilers begin. 😉
If you get a chance to see the film, I'd love to hear what you think! The discussion will be in the comments of the film club's Subst@ck post for the month of June!

This wartime Rhubarb Shortcake is my new favorite Spring recipe! The green looks weird but it was absolutely delicious! 😄

I've made this wartime recipe for Tamale Pie Special multiple times for dinner. One of the most astonishing things about this recipe is the inclusion of an entire clove of garlic. This ingredient is so rare in mainstream American cookbooks of the time because garlic was considered an "offensive smell" on the breath. Garlic is definitely strong, but the flavor is, of course, worth it! 😄 It's pretty cool that this cookbook didn't shy away from it!

I like adding in other things I have on hand like spinach, fresh or canned diced tomatoes, and black beans. Yum!

The recipe comes from Coupon Cookery, 1943.

I went to the Gettysburg Flea on Saturday and came home with the coolest find of the year: a fruit picking bucket! It was the craziest low price to the point where I did a double take. 🤯 Caspian was intensely interested in it the moment I brought it home. 😂

The bucket is made of metal with leather strap loops, a type of felt material lining the rim, leather flaps in the bottom to channel the fruit leaving the canvas collar on the bottom. Cotton ropes keep the canvas collar closed while the fruit is being gathered and woven cotton tape straps are attached to the leather loops for carrying the bucket.

This is a fantastic piece for talking about the Women's Land Army, citizens helping with the harvest or any other number of topics involving wartime crop harvests.

It seriously looks like it belongs in a museum. *Insert Indiana Jones meme here* What a fascinating artifact of food history! The National Park Peaches are a Pennsylvania brand but I need to do more research into the company.