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Recipe for Victory : Food and Cooking in Wartime

The Recipe for Victory: Food and Cooking in Wartime collection presents books and government publications documenting the national effort to promote and implement a plan to make food the key to winning World War I. Within the collection are materials explaining the world food situation, the nutritional value of foods, how to grow productive gardens in less than ideal conditions, and cookbooks with recipes for dealing with scarcity of various commodities such as meat and wheat. Included are works published between 1917 and 1919 in the United States and England.

When the United States entered World War I in 1917 food was desperately needed to supply the European civilian and military allies. Herbert Hoover was appointed as head of the U. S. Food Administration and launched a campaign to conserve food. Americans were urged to voluntarily stretch the food supply by cutting waste, substituting plentiful for scarce ingredients and participating in the food-conservation program popularly known as "Hooverizing," which included wheatless Mondays and Wednesdays, meatless Tuesdays, and porkless Thursdays and Saturdays. The Food Administration sponsored a program to educate the people about nutrition and food preservation to help persuade them that eating less would not be harmful. Signs and posters proclaimed, "Food Will Win the War" and pitched what became known as the "Doctrine of the Clean Plate." The National War Garden Commission encouraged Americans to "put the slacker land to use" by growing war gardens and to preserve by canning and drying all the food they could not use while fresh. This collection of historical materials captures these efforts related to the World War I era food situation.

Recipe for Victory : Food and Cooking in Wartime

The Recipe for Victory: Food and Cooking in Wartime collection presents books and government publications documenting the national effort to promote and implement a plan to make food the key to winning World War I. Within the collection are materials explaining the world food situation, the nutritional value of foods, how to grow productive garde…
Image Source: The war garden victorious, by Charles Lathrop Pack (1919)

Recipe for Victory : Food and Cooking in WartimeIn the Collection

  • Grow beans
  • Food and the war; a textbook for college classes, prepared under the direction of the Collegiate section of the United States Food administration with the cooperation of the Department of agriculture and the Bureau of education
  • How to use other cereals
  • How to use barley
  • Best war time recipes
  • Allied cookery : British, French, Italian, Belgian, Russian / arranged by Grace Clergue Harrison and Gertrude Clergue, to aid the war sufferers in the devastated districts of France; introduction by Hon. Raoul Dandurand ; prefaced by Stephen Leacock and Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
  • The use of fertilizers during the war
  • The Rose Cross Aid cook book : containing instructions in the art of cooking and the correct combination of foods
  • Food saving and sharing, telling how the older children of America may help save from famine their comrades in allied lands across the sea, prepared under the direction of the United States Food administration in cooperation with the United States Department of agriculture and the Bureau of education
  • Preserve eggs for winter use
  • Wheatless and meatless days
  • The food problem
  • Ways of using corn
  • Thrift for troubled times
  • Food economy in war time
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  • This compilation (including design, introductory text, organization, and descriptive material) is copyrighted by University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.

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