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The Illustrated London News 1918

Food and rationing

February 2nd

In The Field With The British Army In Mesopotamia: In Camp and in the Trenches:

'A Balati Pani or Soda Water Making Machine, in Camp: Bottling Off The Daily Ration of Two Sodas Allowed to All Ranks'

February 16th

price ninepence

'Science Jottings, Rations and Health by F. L.'

February 23rd

'Butchers Meat and other Flesh Food: Diagrams Showing The Weekly Quantities Under The Rations'

Full page showing for example Venison or Horseflesh cooked with the Usual Bone Rabbit or Hare Uncooked without Skin including Offal, 10 oz each Coupon

'with Authorised Instructions: Articles Rationed Officially or voluntarily or Availabele Without Restriction' Another wonderful full page drawn by "Our Special Artist W. B. Robinson"

'The Science of Rationing: The Meat Card And The Childs Meat Card (Reduced in Size) for Residents in London and The Home Counties

March 23rd

German food substitutes

Meat: The substitute for meat is made of ox blood. The substance used for the manufacture of war sausage consists of coagulated blood albumen bleached with peroxide

of hydrogen. At one time too, there was a vegetable meat on the market, this consisted mainly of wood glucose dyed red

Bread "stretchers" Sawdust, sand, chalk, powdered hay, quartz, icelandic moss, Lupin preparations, Beech kernels, Horse chestnut meal, tree bark and heather

March 30th

The allotment to the rescue by SL Bensusan

The need of Nitrogen: The air as a source of supply

April 6th

The Tame rabbit for food by SL Bensusan

April 20th

Electricity and Allotments

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