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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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1940s wartime cooking word search · free, large-print, no sign-up · ration book, Dig for Victory, Woolton pie

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.

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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

  1. 1
    Find a word from the list.Press the first letter and drag to the last — across, down or diagonally, forwards or back. Or tap the first letter, then the last.
  2. 2
    It stays marked.Found words get a soft teal line through them, on the grid and in the list.
  3. 3
    Make it comfortable.Use the A / A+ / A++ size control any time, or pinch the grid for a closer look.

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