When I was a lad money was tight, (cue; violins playing in the background, as a boy in short pants, with one sock hanging down, pushes his delivery bike up the steep hill) but we never starved, or wanted for much. (They say you never miss what you never had) and it is true. All right, we didn’t have all the electronic gismos that today’s children have, but we had plenty games to play and things to do. We didn’t have McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut. We couldn’t have afforded them anyway, there was no spare money, to waste on dinning out, or on takeaways.
After the Second World War, the country had to be rebuilt and while there were jobs there was also a glut of men looking for work and wages were low. Mothers, the mainstay of every family, had to make each penny count, if they were to feed and clothe their children.
Today we may not have had a World War, just a lot of smaller ones, but we find ourselves in a recession that is rapidly turning into a depression and hard times are upon us once more. So, now may be the time to take a look at the economical recipes of the past. It may be a sign of the times, but our local butcher was selling bacon bones once more and that reminded me of this cheap and filling soup.
