WWI Rations

This ad was part of the Food Administration's campaign to encourage Americans to replace their meat consumptions with fish, beans, and cheese.


Apple Brown Betty Recipe
Adapted from the “Sweets Without Sugar” pamphlet distributed by the Federal Food Board of New York in 1918.
Start to finish: Approximately 1 hour
Servings: 10
5 medium apples
1 ¼ cups bread crumbs
4 tablespoons of melted butter or cooking fat
¼ cup hot water
1 ½ tablespoons lemon juice
5 tablespoons dark corn syrup
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon cinnamon
Grease a glass or ceramic baking dish and preheat oven to 350° F.
Pare the apples and cut them into thin slices. Toss the bread crumbs with the melted fat in a small bowl. In a separate bowl, mix the hot water, lemon juice, corn syrup, salt and cinnamon together.
Distribute a third of the bread crumb mixture into the bottom of the greased dish and top with half of the sliced apples and half of the liquid. Repeat with another layer of bread crumbs, apples and liquid and top with the remaining bread crumbs. Bake in the oven for 45 minutes.