Conservation Recipes

Food will win the war — if the kitchen does its part.

This newly set illustrated edition of the 1918 Berkeley Conservation Recipes keeps the wartime voice and the honor ration: two pounds of meat a week, twelve ounces of sugar, barley and corn where wheat used to stand. Compiled by the Mobilized Women’s Organizations of Berkeley (Council of Defense, Woman’s Committee), with a cover lineage that began in Bernard Maybeck’s design.

Inside: the Food Administration groups, menu suggestions for breakfast, dinner, and the school lunch, Mrs. Hoover’s war pudding, barley biscuits, soups from the kettle that used to go down the sink, fish and rabbit, corn-meal breads, molasses candy, and the dried fruits that stood in for sugar. Canning pages from 1918 are printed as history, not as modern jar instructions.

A short reading edition for anyone who cooks from the old books and still wants the feel of 1918 on the page.