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Maybe they should give the money to the young fella that her moron of a son attacked with a machete & golf club. Completely disgusting woman along with the rest of them.

Can we get some of these books today?

War was not only devastating to human life but also the ecosystem, fish, wildlife, and plantlife were also affected by war! It sometimes takes many, many years for nature to reverse the effects of war. I'm so thankful to all who served during this time. It has afforded me all the Freedoms that I have today! Many blessings from the hills of Tennessee, USA 🇺🇲

There is NO way I would eat pigs head.... NO way. I could survive on vegetables, thank you.

Across the pond we make hog's head cheese. Hog brains are scrambled with eggs for breakfast with sausage, gravy and biscuits. This isn't war time food. An alternative is to use potted meat with the eggs. What do you think potted meat is? And she's so right about chitlins.

No Spam?

love it, well done !

I really got interested in the 1940's and the war years a few years ago. How I wish my mother and grandmother were still around so I could talk to them about their experiences. My grandmother lived thru both world wars and my mother was born in 1923 so she experienced it as a young girl. My grandmother did alot of canning in the 1960's so I wonder now if this was a holdover from the war or because she lived in the country and it was a few miles to the nearest grocery store and she didnt drive anymore.

I remember when this came out it was quaint. Now life has come full circle soon the only way to feed our family is to turn our gardens onto vegetable beds. I met Ruth Mott when i was a kid my grandmother was freinds with her and by a bizzare turn of evens my other grandad knew Harry though i never met him

such a great series

My grandmother used to do leek pudding I loved it

I have tried to watch this every night. Absolutely love it. But cannot figure out where the child was?

When it comes to the nice older lady, it feels like she is teaching the young boy and feels like a grandma passing on well kept family secrets to the next generation. Very wholesome. 10/10 approved!!!

We need to go back to this system just to help people through these tough times.

Every spring we raise baby pigs and calves & every fall we butcher. We render the fat each fall after butchering. Nothing healthier or tastier than homegrown meat & fat for winter cooking.

How did they make this? Really looks like genuine footage! Ty!

It's these videos of times gone by so informative, relaxing to listen to ,and How housewives managed to feed their Families ,as Far to much Food goes to landfill these daysc

In these days of profligate waste and bewildering choice, this is a useful reminder of how little we actually need to enjoy a healthy life. Eat to live, not live to eat.

Britain did not stop rationing food until 1954, 9 years after the war ended. Meat was the last item to be derationed.

This is so cool to watch should be shown to all families so interesting

I remember my Mother talking about war times that there was shortages of everything

1 oz - "hydrated" lime to 1 quart cool water. "Calcium Hydroxide" There are different kinds of lime, make sure you get the right kind.

SELF DISCIPLINE I wasn't a war child, but my Gran, who raised me, was born in 1900, so I had to have a big spoonful of Cod Liver oil every Sunday night. Yes folks it was absolutely REVOLTING and I didn't know of any other kids who were forced to have it. BUT, it taught me to swallow medicine because it was good for me. I was also taken on long, long walks, taught to dig in heavy soil and a thousand other things that were done because IT WAS good for me. Self discipline in other words, doing what needs to be done whether one enjoys it or not! No complaints here, just gratitude for the care and guidance.

Must have been stifling hot in the summer with no air flow.

Been watching this series as company during the -40° windchills. This video quite interesting to hear wild herbs being used. Great tip using wild greens & elderberry flowers.

🫐🫐🫐🫐🫐🫐🫐🫐🫐🫐🫐🫐🫐🫐I did my best planting elderberry is this year I only had access to just a few trees and a Washington state USA I found enough before I planted around 15,000. I found something special also it’s called a highbush cranberry I only seen one. I put the seeds through erotic acid for about an hour to duplicate the digestive system of an animal, the neutralize it with baking soda and water, then water so I could start absorbing into the seed because I had a wax coating on it. I try to find what’s left and I tried to duplicate it , I’m afraid for this country one slight problem there is no food

🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓🍓 I saved over 1 million strawberry seeds last year and over 1 million squash seeds the year before

I planted over 100,000 fruit 🍎 berry producing 🍇and nut trees🌰 this year, and I planted millions of seeds that will, and it is the cure for all species on the planet I don’t believe war is necessary to be concerned to be growing your food. I believe we all grew our food. There would be less problems. 🌎 😊

Sounds like an expensive way of drying apple rings. Couldn't they just string them up in the greenhouse?

We need this mentality now as much as ever, such a bully is again advancing into Europe!

I detassled seed corn one summer. They plant six rows of male corn then twelve rows of the "female" seed corn. Went through and cut the tassels off with a mower that cut the "female" corn off at 5' removing most if not all the tassle. Then we went through pulling any remaining tassle out to prevent any pollen from the "female" rows of corn so that cross pollination would take place producing hybrid seed corn.

My mom used to reserve the water from boiling potatoes to save the starchy water. I forget what she used it for, pie making? It was more of a grey market. Everyone got their basic ration, it was amazingly fair and managed to convince people that at the basic level everyone was getting their basic share. Nutrition improved for many poor Britains and malnutrition was unknown under rationing. They started rationing soon enough, they made it as fair as practical, they lowered the ration points on anything that suddenly became plentiful if a shipload made it through the blockade! Damn they had rationing till 1953, 8 years after the war ended. The British people were amazingly resilient.

A wonderful informative and entertaining series. At this point I begin to wonder if I remember correctly from the first episode that the lady came to Ruth's with a son. where did he go for most of the series? Haven't seen him until the end of this episode. Lol

The narrator Peter Thoday only died a few months ago - in May 2023

My grandmother was always making suet pudding for lunch - either to eat as a savoury dish to go with the meat course or as a dessert with golden syrup poured over it

Excellent series though I'm sure the episodes were longer than 25 minutes when the series was originally shown - I think it has been edited slightly

I know walnut hulls would have tanned those legs

Love this series. Watching for the upteenth time

Thank you for this series. Extremely interesting.

Aww. I watched this years ago and so happy CZcams sent it to me today! Will enjoy it all over again!

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo it's over nooooooooooooooooooooo!!!

I don't want this series to end!!!

I'll be looking up haybox cooking now. (I've written out the chocolate pudding recipe from the last episode.) Can hardly wait to make up a box & try it out!

all of that misery could have been avoided if england had just kept its nose out of everyones business and let the good guys carry on

I used to rather fancy Annie. 🙂

Toss some old tyres in there! Get some Xtra power! Add a Turbo for the sound lol

Probably turbo charge it jk

My grandmother raised rabbits & foraged. She collected Rosehip in parks & made jam from it. Rosehip is very high in vitamin C. She also collected young Nettle leaves to chop up & eat on bread. Tropical fruit was unheard of during & after the war in Germany. When i was little, there was a Banana action on my street. Berlin was still in ruins in the 50s. I remember buying fresh milk in a can. We were poor but the fresh food we were able to buy was a 100 times healthier then today....

I watched the series a couple years ago. I was born 1951 in Germany. I was raised on depression meals. We had potatoes with everything...

Him ripping up and burning the garden crushed my poor soul.😢