Yesterday put me in the mood for more nostalgia so I decided that today's photograph would be a bit of legacy photography. It is of a WWII ration tin that belonged to my grandfrather Spiller and the recipe book of Great Granny Bruckshaw.
Grandpa Spiller was a professional violinist and worked in the entertainment corps during the war, based largely in the Middle East.
On the tin it reads:
"Emergency Ration, purpose of contents to be consumed only when no other rations of any kind are procurable. To open, strip off band, insert coin in corner groove and turn. NOTICE: not to be opened except by order of an officer."
The recipe book is fascinating; full of newspaper cuttings from the 30s and 40s and handwritten recipes written with soft, delicate flourishes in beautiful ink copperplate . The page in the recipe book displayed here has recipes for amongst other things: Maids of Honour (whatever they are), Ground Rice Cake, Chocolate Cream Pie and Lemon Pineapple Pie.
There is also another page with the heading 'Unusual Vegetables' listing amongst other things; green peppers, egg plant, sweetcorn and pumpkin.
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