Ww1 Food
Published on Nov 19, 2015
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School dınners
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School dinners were introduced because lots of children were missing school to queue for food. Mothers also queuing hadn't time to cook dinner and children were going hungry.
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Toad-in-the-hole was a school dinner that many children would sometimes eat during the week
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From 1906, many schools served a midday dinner. These were solid, heavy, belly-filling meals, with plenty of stodge.
On the menu were dishes such as:
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What's on the menu?
toad-in-the-hole - sausages in batter
mutton - meat from a sheep
suet pudding - a heavy pudding made with flour and fat and served with jam or treacle
What was school like?
bean soup and bread, followed by treacle pudding
toad-in-the-hole, potatoes and bread
mutton stew and suet pudding
fish and potato pie, followed by baked raisin pudding.
In 1914, around 14 million dinners were dished up in British schools. But that still meant around half the schools in the land did not serve a meal at all.
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Children ate their midday school dinner, back in the classroom, under supervision of their teachers
Food shortages
When war came, food began to run short. Schools, like everyone else, had to cut back on what they served. Charities began to open soup kitchens, where children (and grown-ups) could get a hot meal. They served cheap food such as pea soup, fried fish, or oatmeal and onion pudding.
A war-time newsreel showed the Prime Minister's wife, Mrs Lloyd George, opening one of these 'National Kitchens', as they were called. Outside, a huge queue of hungry people could be seen waiting to be fed.
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