As I suspected, this rationing issue receives simpler as you undergo the week, coasting at the bins you've got already opened. On Day three of our Rationing Challenge, we did not use a single extra issue of both purple or blue foodstuffs. We did retain to slowly burn up our substances of sugar and oil, the usage of more than one teaspoons of sugar for cocoa, 1 / 4-cup of oil to make loaves of whole-wheat bread, a half-teaspoon or so that you can drizzle over popcorn, and some teaspoons to brown some hen for dinner. At present, it looks as if we're in no threat of jogging thru our sugar supply, but we would need to start every other quart of oil before the give up of the week. Fortunately, the fowl itself did not price us any factors from our dwindling stock of purple points, considering the fact that hen wasn't rationed. Neither come to be the smooth fruit we ate with our lunch, or the fresh salad veggies we picked for our dinner from our Victory Garden. Brian did sprinkle a chunk of sun-dried tomato on pinnacle of the salad, however that item doesn't seem to be listed everywhere in the rationing chart, despite the fact that dried beans and dried fruits (prunes, raisins, and currents) are.
Day 3 (June three)
- No factors used
BLUE POINTS: 45 used, 51 ultimate
One query I'm wondering approximately is what we can do on Friday, even as we are signed as a great deal as donate baked goods on the Minstrel (our favorite oldsters membership). Normally, we truely recuperation a batch of desserts from a mixture and add in a cup of chocolate chips; this easy and relatively much less high priced recipe seems to be far more famous with the hungry crowds than lots extra exertions-good sized domestic-baked candies like oatmeal cookies. But if we do that, I'm now not sure how the baking mixture and chocolate chips ought to don't forget against our week's sugar ration.
So perhaps we should just break with our usual practice and bake something from scratch so that we can accurately track the amount of sugar we use. And as long as we're doing that, maybe we should try one of these special wartime recipes, many of which are designed to minimize the use of sugar (which was rationed) and eggs (which were often scarce). A quick search on "molasses cake" also turned up several interesting hits, many of which contain no white sugar—but they tend to use lots of butter, perhaps enough to completely use up our remaining red points. I also found a recipe for peanut butter cookies in the Pillsbury Cookbook, which calls for only a cup of sugar (half white, half brown) and half a cup of "margarine or butter" (the peanut butter, which wasn't rationed, adds the rest of the necessary moisture). It makes 3 1/2 dozen cookies, which would give us 32 for the Minstrel (2 cookies per customer) and leave 10 for us to enjoy at home.
There's also this pumpkin gingerbread, which uses only half a cup of sugar (plus half a cup of molasses). It calls for a half-cup of butter, too, but the recipe says that when it was left out by accident, the cake still "turned out fine." And pumpkin puree doesn't appear on the rationing chart, so it wouldn't cost us any blue points (unless we add the raisins, which would use four). The only drawbacks are (1) we haven't made this before, so I'm not sure how good it is; (2) we might not get enough servings out of one loaf; and (3) it definitely wouldn't leave any leftovers for us. Unless we made two loaves, in which case we'd still be using up a cup of sugar. Decisions, decisions....
