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[email protected] On The Home Front From Kilner jars to killing hens In Our Age has been for them else they out and about talking to won't die!" Herefordshire people Don Glead, Madley about wartime food. G Bread pudding: soak G You'd have to queue bread, add sugar, fruit for everything. and powdered egg Queues'd be miles and a little drop of long at Higgins the milk. Mix it all up and butcher in put it in the baking Widemarsh Street. tray, like a Christmas No good being in a pudding, and boil it. hurry, you'd be ages. That was what my I used to hate kids had for their tea queuing, but if you with some custard wanted it you'd got many a time and the to do it. boys are all six Phyllis Yapp, footers! Hereford Phyllis Yapp, Hereford G When mother went to G Through the winter market she'd have months we always butter and dressed had hot potato cakes chickens in her on Sunday evening. basket. And they were Phyllis Edwards (pictured second from right in the middle row, above) of Redhill recalls Cook the potatoes, dressed in those happy times working as a civilian cook at RAF Credenhill. She remembers one mash them well with days, trussed up with incident which might send Health & Safety inspectors into a spin these days.