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Forties Kitchen

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A few of the words

WOOLTON
Woolton Pie was named after Lord Woolton, Minister of Food from 1940, and filled with whatever root vegetables the garden or allotment could offer, no meat required.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
DRIPPING
Beef dripping, saved from every roast, was a rationed household treasure, spread on toast or used to fry anything going in the pan.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
ALLOTMENT
By 1943, there were an estimated 1.4 million allotments in Britain, collectively producing roughly a tenth of the nation's food supply.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SPAM
Spam arrived in Britain via American Lend-Lease supplies from 1941, quickly earning a place in sandwiches, fritters and improvised pies up and down the country.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Forties Kitchen: a free large-print word search

Forties Kitchen, a free, large-print word search evoking the ration book, the allotment and the art of making every last scrap count.

About Forties Kitchen

When the ration book arrived, the kitchen became a place of quiet ingenuity. Housewives coaxed flavour from stockpots, stretched powdered egg into scrambled breakfasts, and turned garden gluts of marrow and parsnip into something close to comfort. The allotment was as essential as the stove, a patch of turned earth where beetroot and carrot crowded together, answering the Ministry of Food's call to Dig for Victory.

How to play

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last — the trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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    Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps — never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.

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