{Wartime Recipe} Potato Floddies

Someone asked what these were, sorry cant find the comment now to say who  :( but here you are.....

A kind of potato Cake Floodies are to have originated from canal workers who cooked them on a shovel over the fire!

Grate a raw potato into a bowl , you can also add grated carrot. Sprinkle with flour and add household milk (milk made from powder) or milk from rationsuntil a batter is made. Spoon into a hot frying pan and cook until golden turning halfway through.

These can then be served warm with sugar for a sweet snack or as they are for a belly-warming elevenses!!

Day 17

Today, as funny noises came from my NEW breadmaker, I caved in a bought a new food processor. I made a bread dough in it and baked a small loaf. Neither doughs seemed to rise well - maybe too cold? So I now have 2 small loaves for us tomorrow. If the processor one is good as or better than the troubled breadmaker loaf, I will return the bm and not replace it!

Breakfast 

Bread and Jam or Flakes

Lunch 

Soup or sandwiches -cheese and chutney

Supper 

Jacket potatoes and sausages


Today was pretty difficult, dizzle all day, miserable moods, we kinda fell in a slump and resorted to full strength tea (we've been having 1/2 amouynts to make it go further) and dipping into our sweet rations a bit heavier!!

Day 13

Honey Biccies

Breakfast

Bread and marmalade

Lunch

Rissoles and wartime champ - leftovers from yesterday

Supper

Cauliflower cheese and baked potato
 
Snacks

Potato floddies, honey biscuits

Day 8 - Week 2 on rationing and weekly Weigh In!

We've made it through our first week of rationing!! We celebrated by, well, staying on the rationing!!

We weighed ourselves this morning...

Weight this week :-
Hubby  = +3.4 kg
Me = - 1.1 kg

I'm not listing the childrens, but will keep an eye on it at home.

We didn't start this as a diet plan, but quite a few people on facebook have asked if we've lost weight so I though we'd include it. I I have no idea how to explain this difference between us? Mines quite obvious , no snacking etc but for hubby to have put on quite a bit is confusing!? The only thing I can think of is that rationing was designed to put  people into their healthiest position, so a slightly underweight hubby may well 'bulk up' on it? where as overweight me would lose weight? what do you think?


Breakfast

Toast & Jam

Lunch

Cheese sarnies, Apple.

Supper

Bunny Pie, Veg, Potatoes , Apple Crumble.

Snacks 

Potato Floddies

Day 5

We're surrounded by snow today so have turned to more warming comfort food.

Apparently its a bit of a myth that in ww2 they wouldn't have curries. They were just drier and more authentic than the ones we have in Britain today. I've tried to include a few more warming snacks to help hubby feel more satisfied - Potato Floddies seem to have done the trick!

Breakfast 

Welsh rarebit, Jam / Marmalade on Toast

Lunch

Bacon Turnovers, Potatoes, Veg

Supper

Potato & Spinach curry and rice

Snacks (between us not each!)

Potato Floddies / Apple / Pear / Carrot Cookie