Ration Recipe Come Dine With Me

Primary 7C were busy today making desserts based on ration recipes from World War 2.  We began the day by learning about John Boyd Orr, a Scot who worked on researching peoples diets between the wars.  It was many of his ideas that were adopted by the Ministry of Food as part of the rationing programme.  Next, our class, worked in teams to make one of 3 ration recipes: health bread, sugarless apple dessert or fruit crumble.  There was also an added challenge, that you could bring in ingredients from home, that would have been available in war time Britain to enhance your recipe.  Three of the boys' groups made fruit crumbles and the other made the sugarless apple dessert.  They were all yummy and the smells emanating from the kitchen were drawing attention.  Mr McKenna acted judge for the boys round and chose Dylan, Dee-Jay and Atharva's crumble as the one that most tickled his taste buds.

 After break it was the turn of the girls who made two health loaves, an amazing strawberry juice and sugarless apple dessert combo and a fruity crumble.  A slight hiccup occurred when we realised the oven, while it looked on was actually on slightly the wrong setting (whoops) so we judged the uncooked recipes first.  It was a close run thing but Mrs Nowell, felt that Automne and Katie's sugarless apple dessert just edged it because of the spices.  She loved the creativeness of the other one but felt it was a little sweet for her particular taste.  Thanks to Maisie for also supplying rhubarb for Automne and Katie as she was due to be in their group but was travelling off on holiday.  Then we cranked up the temperature on the oven and attempted to speed up the baking process for the other three.  This obviously cooked the outside but we had to take it out earlier than we would have liked so the health bread was a little gooey in the middle (the sides were baked well).  The ever lovely Mrs Nowell helped us tidy the last of the dishes and stayed to judge the last 3.  Again it was close but Jenny, Ana and Emma won out with their tasty health bread.  

It was lots of fun and I would like to say thank you to my class for their enthusiasm and creativity.  They took on the challenge with gusto and I very much enjoyed sampling their delicious dishes.  Apologies for not having pictures of the girls, we had less time in the second session and I forgot to take more.

Ms French