I remember watching this on TV, and thinking that I'd like to try living in the 1940s myself.  I loved this series, while it was on PBS.  I'm so excited to find it on YouTube!  Thanks so much!  ~Janet in Canada   💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

Great to have a better quality copy to watch!

Loved it   Watched over and over.  They picked the perfect family.   ❤❤❤❤❤

33:02 I've watched this for many many years this 1940s house but as soon as I found your copy of it , the quality is way better. Wonderful! Thank you .

For a school project we tried rationing for a week. It was difficult. Reading about it seems easy, but god damn. It was terribly hard.

Put a potato in it will take the salt out

That night she dropped the peaches and crumble?  That was pudding.  What on earth were they talking about having no food?

They had the green outer leaves of cabbage. Some sort of cooking fat?  Salt,  pepper, grate some carrots and potato.  A bit of onion from the garden?  A little bit of grated cheese.  A dusting of flour.  Cut into 5.

Even a few of the green bits of onion,  above ground.

I wonder if they had chick peas back then.  I believe there was a certain amount of olive oil, but it was seen as a tonic or rub and you bought it at the chemists!  So they could have been one of the few who raided the chemists and had plenty of cooking fat and salad dressings.

If they got chick peas in tins, the aqua something...   The thick liquid, is used as an egg substitute.  The chick peas  could be crushed, mixed with pepper and salt, maybe a tiny amount of grated cheese, put on bread then filled with salad veg.

Oh this show has olive oil at the food shop

If there were wild blackberries or raspberries, you can pick the leaves and make tea. Very good for women just having given birth.

And dandelion root coffee was made by roasting dandelion roots.  The leaves could be added to salads, if desperate.  But they were a slight diuretic.

This is a very good show wish there was more eras

Did they have hot water bottles in this show,  i can't remember.

Why don't he either woman cook?

If you add barley to soups, it can give a vegetarian soup a more omami, meaty soup. flavour.  Oz calls a lot of British squash? Pumpkin.  Was pumpkin. easy to get in Britain, WW2?

VERY hearty for soup

Was pu