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Sid’s Treasures with Teresa Vander Meer-Chassé
Rations and cookbooks L
ate May brought sun and warmth to the bordertown of Beaver Creek, Yukon. Sid was already back working hard at the Visitor Information Centre. He could feel the season was going to be a good one. Sid had come a long way from his childhood in northern Netherlands during the end of the Second World War. Searching through his many cabinets of papers, we found war ration booklets and wartime cookbooks from Canada. “Food was in short supply; nothing went to waste. People needed the cookbooks to use what they had,” Sid said. It’s hard to imagine nothing, especially for someone like myself, who has been privileged to never having experienced starvation. That being said, there are many people amongst us who have and still do. Famine hit the Netherlands during 1944
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The 2019 Challenge Annual General Meeting will be held June 25th in the Community Hall of L’Association Franco-Yukonnaise. (302 Strickland Street) Doors open at 5 pm and close at 7 pm. The membership fee will be $10 (867) 668-4421 1148 Front Street
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War ration booklets
World War II era cookbooks
and 1945 during the German occupation that killed thousands. “My mom and grandma always reused the bacon grease. They had a can of it on the stove and they never needed to use new stuff. Everybody had a pot of grease to cook with. They cooked with the same stuff, but it still tasted good. You used what you had because if you went to the store, the shelves would already be empty.” After looking through the cookbooks, it became apparent that a major theme in cooking at the time was to use anything and everything available. It was no surprise to see dishes of tongue or kidney pie included amongst the recipes. We also found war ration booklets that were owned by a family friend who
War rations for gasoline, which was a luxury product not intended for personal use
lived in Canada during the war. “Rations were used to limit what people could get, especially things like gas. Gas was a luxury and wasn’t meant for your personal use,” Sid said. Rations acted like coupons, each individual or family would receive a booklet of coupons that they could use cont’d on page 3 ...
We’re proud to be your local greenhouse offering your family fresh pesticide free, locally grown vegetables! We’re now harvesting four varieties of lettuce, five types of cherry tomatoes, big beef tomatoes, long English and other varieties of cucumbers and five varieties of peppers!
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