{"id":58,"date":"2014-09-20T16:33:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T21:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/?p=58"},"modified":"2015-04-13T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T23:03:00","slug":"recipe-lord-woolton-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"RECIPE-Lord Woolton Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Woolton Pie<\/p>\n<p>Frederick Marquis, Lord Woolton, \u00a0was appointed Minister of Food in April 1940. Lord Woolton was\u00a0a former\u00a0managing director of Lewis, \u00a0a \u00a0chain of stores in northern England.\u00a0Lord Woolton created \u201cThe Kitchen Front\u201d radio show, and he became very\u00a0popular with the public while stressing the importance of meat-free dishes and\u00a0making desserts\u00a0without\u00a0sugar (grated carrots were used as a sugar substitute to provide sweetness).\u00a0The Official recipe for Woolton Pie was reported in \u201cThe Times\u201d on 26 April 1941.\u00a0The pie was the\u00a0invention of\u00a0Francis Latry, the head chef at the\u00a0Savoy Hotel in London. This was one of many recipes introduced to the British people by the Ministry of Food to ensure that a nutritional diet could\u00a0be maintained despite so many food shortages. People\u00a0either hated or loved it! \u00a0<em>Note: Swedes are rutabagas, and spring onions are scallions. Kitchen Bouquet can be used in place of the \u201cvegetable extract.\u201d \u00a0The crust can be made of mashed potato or an easy pastry (a wartime pie crust) \u00a0of 8 oz of wheat flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp salt, 3 oz of margarine (or butter if you have saved your ration), \u00a0and enough water to make the dough roll out easier. A moderate oven is about 350-375 degrees.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrotmuseum.co.uk\/photos\/wooltonpie.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/foodheroesandheroines.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/11\/lord-woolton.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Lord Woolton, Minister of Food<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lord Woolton Pie Frederick Marquis, Lord Woolton, \u00a0was appointed Minister of Food in April 1940. Lord Woolton was\u00a0a former\u00a0managing director of Lewis, \u00a0a \u00a0chain of stores in northern England.\u00a0Lord Woolton created \u201cThe Kitchen Front\u201d radio show, and he became very\u00a0popular with the public while stressing the importance of meat-free dishes and\u00a0making desserts\u00a0without\u00a0sugar (grated carrots were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewartimekitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}