Hard Times Cookery ?

[MissPrep]

I'd recommend the 1973 edition of Farmhouse Fare published by Farmers weekly.

If you search on Amazon you can get a hardback copy for £2.76 including postage.

The later editions do not include the chapter on pig curing & by products.

There are many weird & wonderful recipies in there I'd never seen anywhere else, some only of use if you have a spare pig, others for very economical meals made from simple ingredients like egg cutlets.
There's also recipies for a number of cheeses, things like burnet or agrimony wine, household stuff for your corner cupboard (embrocations, polishing cloths, soap etc..)

My parents had this when it was originally published & I've picked up my own copy as they wouldn't let it go.

Also highly recommended for general self sufficiency

[rik_uk3]

Take a look at the videos made by 93 year old Clara who passed away in 2013, R.I.P. Clara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuMkW35BwK8

Enjoy

[FEISTY]

Some fab links here and I'll be looking into this, but just wanted to say the thought of adding oats to mince makes me a wee bit squeamish and I don't think my family would go for it, but I would definitely add lentils. Lentil soup (pretty much just lentils, carrot, onion, stock, pepper) is probably the cheapest, most filling and healthy thing you can eat on a budget, especially if you add a few potatoes - yum! Baked potatoes too - my daughter prefers them plain and my son likes cheese. Personally, I prefer home-made chilli which you can bulk out with kidney beans and ... more lentils . We were taught in school that people would make a large batch of thick porridge and pour it into a drawer. When it had dried out enough, they'd cut it into portions and it could be carried with them - a packed lunch. When we weren't using drawers for making oatcakes, the babies slept in them and, in fact, I think my siblings and I may have initially slept in a drawer too and bathed in the sink . I don't think the experience has scarred us . We're a canny lot.

[diamond lil]

Lol Fiesty you must have had same kind of upbringing as me then.
Multi-purpose preps are the way to go.
If anybody read Nella Last's War they will remember her making a really filling dinner out of some garden veg and ONE rabbit leg -- she minced it and made it into a big cottage pie with flaky pastry!