Grandma's Wartime Kitchen
A tribute to the women on the home front during World War II, Grandma's Wartime Kitchen presents more than 150 classic recipes (updated for today's kitchen) along with anecdotes, advertisements, and advice from the period.

Read about the U.S. government's Food Rules and Ration Books: stretching butter, meat, coffee, and other staples. Also the substitutes for rationed sugar, and the dessert recipes they inspired.

Read about wartime entertaining including Defense Parties, progressive parties and a traditional Thanksgiving dinner using wartime commodities.

Joanne Lamb Hayes is the co-author of seven cookbooks. 2003. St. Martin's Press. Hardcover. 244 pages.

 

Grandma's Wartime Baking
A delicious, nostalgic look at home the Greatest Generation baked - with recipes that are updated for today's kitchens. Filled with recipes adn illustrations from the period, Joanne Lamb Hayes's book pays tribute to the ingenious and patriotic ways American women baked for their families despite food rationing and other pressures of wartime. Adapted for today's cooks, the recipes include old-fashioned cakes, cookies, pies, cobblers, and other delights.

Anyone interested in the Greatest Generation, women's history, and comfort desserts will relish this valentine to an unforgettable chapter in our history - as seen from the kitchen.

Joanne Lamb Hayes is the co-author of seven cookbooks. 2003. St. Martin's Press. Hardcover.