FOOD afficianados had a go at cooking with the choice few ingredients families would have had at their disposal during the First World War.

A bake-off was held at SS Peter and Paul’s Church on Saturday, with judge Sue Butler-Miles, 67, picking the best efforts.

The grandmother-of-two said: “There were some very good entries.

“I think some of the recipes came from an article in the Daily Mail for First World War cooking and others came from cookbooks from the time.

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“One of the girls in the under-16 class made breakfast buns from a 1907 recipe. They were very imaginative.

“There was also a ‘trench cake’, with no eggs, that used vinegar and other basic ingredients that people would have had in their store cupboard.

“People also made gingerbread and savoury meals like hotpots that had corned beef and vegetables in them.

“Corned beef used to be a very basic thing people had, they didn’t have all the fancy things we have these days.

“But at this competition we had recipes being made that went back to the sort of meals my grandmother used to make me when I was a child.”


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