We'll Eat Again
- Year
- 1985
- Era
- 20th century
- Origin
- England · Europe
- Language
- English
- Category
- Wartime/Austerity
We'll Eat Again, compiled by Marguerite Patten in collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, gathers recipes and cookery guidance issued by the British Ministry of Food during the Second World War. As a retrospective anthology of rationing-era domestic cookery, it preserves the spirit of make-do meals, official advice leaflets, and shortage-driven ingenuity, offering both a practical sourcebook and a documentary record of wartime austerity on the British home front.
Cooking from this book
Woolton Pie
Signature dishWoolton Pie is the dish most often summoned when people think of British wartime cookery, and it features prominently in Marguerite Patten's affectionate retrospective of Ministry of Food cooking. Named after Lord Woolton, the wartime Minister of Food, it is a homely vegetable pie of root vegetables under a pastry or potato crust. Patten, who broadcast advice from the Ministry's Food Advice Bureau, made this thrifty pie emblematic of the make do spirit her book celebrates.
An editorial note on a dish associated with this book, written for The Coquinist. It is not a reproduction of the book's recipe.
