The Wartime Kitchen and Garden - Season 1

The Wartime Kitchen and Garden - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes8
DatesNov 5, 1993 - Dec 24, 1993

Episodes

Episode 1
Season 1Episode 130 min

Episode 1

Harry Dodson reluctantly roots up the flower beds and orchard to concentrate on food production. As war approaches 60 per cent of this country' s food is imported, so the work is urgent. He has the assistance of a recruit from the Women's Land Army. At least during those early months of the "phoney war" there was a chance to stock up.

Nov 5, 1993
Episode 2
Season 1Episode 230 min

Episode 2

Ruth Mott disguises breast of lamb in egg and breadcrumbs and ekes out her fat allowance by using potato pastry in a leek pudding. Harry Dodson mourns the passing of farmyard manure and sets about building giant compost heaps and cloches.

Nov 12, 1993
Episode 3
Season 1Episode 330 min

Episode 3

Ruth Mott uses carrot to sweeten a wartime chocolate pudding and, when icing sugar is banned, decorates a wedding cake with cardboard.

Nov 19, 1993
Episode 4
Season 1Episode 430 min

Episode 4

Harry Dodson, head gardener, and Ruth Mott, cook, relive the kitchen front of the Second World War. Ruth makes brawn from half a pig's head and Harry tries to increase his potato yield.

Nov 26, 1993
Episode 5
Season 1Episode 530 min

Episode 5

Ruth Mott's assistant Joyce breaks a china cup and has to replace it with a utility one. Harry Dodson is called upon to buy a few tomatoes "under the counter". Ruth makes mock banana with mashed parsnip and banana essence, and draws stocking seams on Joyce's legs.

Dec 3, 1993
Episode 6
Season 1Episode 630 min

Episode 6

Ruth Mott bakes salt cod with boiled nettles and learns to use a canning machine to preserve her plum crop. Harry Dodson grows and cures tobacco and Joyce stews kitchen scraps for Annie's chickens.

Dec 10, 1993
Episode 7
Season 1Episode 730 min

Episode 7

Ruth Mott makes a Swiss breakfast of oats, raw carrot, apple and raisins and a "mock" mayonnaise to go with a summer salad. Harry Dodson keeps his glasshouses heated by burning wood from the estate.

Dec 17, 1993
Episode 8
Season 1Episode 830 min

Episode 8

The final programme remembers 1945. Winter brought the worst fuel crisis of the war, so Ruth Mott uses a steamer and cooks rabbit, while Harry Dodson cultivates haricot beans.

Dec 24, 1993

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