We would do the same, I'm sure. Not easy but it wasn't easy then either.

Awesome!!

Good for you!! My Grandmother taught me the same. You learn by trial and error. I still have a little jug in which I put any buttons, bits of string etc. I'm fair clemmin just looking at the food!!

This is also how our family live here in the states. Even learned about wild edibles and some of them we have cultivated in the garden(guess they are no longer wild if cultivated, are they?). Though there are certain animals we do not eat due to Biblical convictions, there are plenty of other wild animals that can be eaten and to health, it does work since we never get sick. I learned a lot from my great grandmother as she lived through the great depression, WWI, and WWII. She passed on just before my teen years and I do miss her so. Greatly indebted to her.

Indeed. My Uncle Don died in Normandy, Mom & Dad both served in the U.S. Navy - met after the War.

@@MAEURASTAR God bless you. My uncle was wounded in the Ardenne Forest and walked with a limp after the war. My dad served in the Navy in the Pacific. They made it home, but my younger uncle was killed in Korea.

This was an EXCELLENT documentary series. Just amazing how resilient people were and how they came through this. Love from Texas!!❤️

@Benaiah Ahmadinejad Go away you silly little person.

It's a great series. I have the book that accompanies the series.

Hi can you cook four me please

I second that

@@n.phillips4093 Me, too! I'll shar share with next door, promise!!

Me to. I watch them so often. I just wish there were MORE episodes. They always put me in a good mood and restore my faith in humanity.

You know, I have heard that all my life and I literally never thought of it that way. Thanks for enlightening me. That was such a contributing factor I am sure. I am American (Texan) , but I just swell with love for the people of this country (the British) and all that they went through and just the way that they adapted to what the war brought to them. It is just amazing and just makes me look at all the GOOD in human nature. Especially, in times we are in now (2021). God Bless Great Britain and God Bless us all!❤️

I hope he had better teeth than ol Harry!

Women did a full shirt in the factory, queued for rations, washed for the family with poss stick and dolly tub. No labour saving devices. How can women today say they 'Don't have time to cook a meal?

I've read that bread was unrefined too. Can we press a button and make white bread disappear?

We had a neighbor years ago who would just burn the top part of her garden before planting every year. She would put some small branches and leaves on top. This would be called added potash to the soil.

@@garden333 And the "char" of the burnt non ashed portions also "sweeten" the soil.

@@sonofeloah I'd love a char lady. Now you can just use a microwave.

@@raibeart1955: No nukes for this boy.

@@sonofeloah I make you right pal

Salty Cowgirl Liked your comment about the hard times and rationing during WW 2. Americans and Europeans in the last two generations do not know what" Hard Times" are like, this video would be good for all to see so we would appreciate what we have. When the electricity goes out we all are lost, cannot watch television or the Internet, how can that happen.

@@fasx56 I agree, but I'd certainly extend that to beyond just the last two generations. The post-war generation of 'boomers' had it far better than anyone from 'generation X' or the so-called 'millennials', and I doubt that the newest lot are going to have much luck growing up through another recession.

John White...do you mean that YT takes them down???

Thank you

I'd love to fund that book to read it too. It would be so interesting. I have to say, I never thought I'd live to know that the UK isn't getting rain! That is almost un- English! What's to become of us, Australia has lost over a million hectares of land filled with native animals plus domesticated animals, all with recently born spring new Born's, all gone before they had a chance to lived. Breaks my heart, the cruelty that life endures. 😔 I hope we arent remembered as the generstions of mass consumerism, timber felling & water polluters from factories & businesses who let the planet dry out & suffer intolerably from all our excesses. I especially wonder how the Politicians of our times will be remembered.

Cooperation? Not if you read the citations for breaking the ration laws and those that were cautioned or fined for breaking ration laws.

I've been fortunate enough to have grown up surrounded by my long lived female relatives. My great grandma's brother served with Kitchener's war in the Sudan against the 'Mad Mahdi and the Fuzzy Wuzzys'. The one and only thing they all liked, including my mother, now almost 90, was the powdered egg from the U.S. Something she would still happily use today.

@@karenblackadder9446 lol, the mad Mahdi & the pussy wussys made me laugh so much! Thankyou for all of your wonderful sharing Karen ♥

I know the World Wars got Americans to eating more salted snacks instead of sweets. Since sugar was also rationed over here but salt wasn't.

I will try again. Last time I ran up against copyright and they were banned.

Oh thank you so much. As soon as uou put them up, please message me. Im so grateful.

?? There are add ons for each internet browser which enable downloading of videos from YT. Just google 'download video and the name of your browser'

I think downloading this is a good idea. British history is being actively re-written. This programme shows the true demographic of Britain in the past, but there are active efforts now to erase that past, and the BBC are very much part of that. Any re-make of this programme would almost certainly be made with only black actors, as we are now told that only black people built Britain.

U think your government is fucked .im in america with lord little hands..pray for me

@@kejobo pray for me is a term aferican americas say..its about more than prayer..its more of please remember..think of me..

@@TheDiana1988 Believes me, in Britain, WE ARE..

@@kejobo Actually many people in Europe blame General Persching for WW11. The old European countries had been battling each other for Centuries. They knew how to let everyone withdraw with nobody losing face. BUT NO!! In steams Persching for the U,S (aka 'Tail End Charlie') U.S only been in the war since May 1917, 3 years late, and thought he was still in the Wild West, fighting the Native Tribes..By demanding abject surrender he drove the German people to give credence to Hitler's National Socialist Party. Ie Nazis.

Jennifer Stewart it’s not the oldest, France has been our ally longer than England

@@thebigrussian Maybe not the oldest but Great Britain is by far the toughest and most resilient. France beat Enland once in 1066. Even THAT is a bit iffy as Edward is said to have, at different times, bestowed the crown on both Harold and William the Bastard. Willy Conq won that round. HOWEVER, then came AGINCOURT, TRAFALGAR (the culmination of many naval engagements, WATERLOO, 2 World Wars where the French Governments rolled over and said, Tickle my tummy to Kaiser Wilhelm and failed Austrian painter. Who would you want on your side when the chips are down, I ask myself? ????

@@karenblackadder9446 damn, this comment is the truest statement I've read or thought about in my 63 years on the planet! Thankyou for telling it like it really is & let's not ever forget it! ;)

Will check for you. Can you get Irish stout ie Guinness where you are? That's a heavy beer and seems to be available wherever a couple of Irishmen come together. LOL

Use the Guinness as the liquid.

An unemployed Bohemian Austrian house painter wanted more lebensraum! LOL but not really so LOL.

Actually it was a NATION effected by the Balfour Agreement. And I quote "THE WHEELBARROWS ARENT BIG ENOUGH" but you probably dont understand that part of history.

Also he was an artist not a house painter.

@@BridgesDontFly The Banksters destroyed Germany after WWI and caused WWII. They couldn't let Hitler's economic model survive as he had turned a 4th world country to a world superpower in 5 years without the Banksters loans. "Dam, what if other countries did that?? We have to stop him!".

Bridges Dont Fly - All artists are house painters; failed ones eventually begin to realize that fact. A.H. was particularly well suited to the task but he never quite caught on...

@Sheila T.Soda pop in the USA was not regulated if you could afford it. It was a ready source of sugar as they did make it with that then instead of the corn syrup of today, unless you get your Coca Cola from Mexico where it is, according to the label on the 99 Cents Only Store bottled Coca Cola soda pop.

​@Sheila T. Remember that different countries have different standards about what is and in what condition are things consumable. Not every government has outlawed DTT or other chemicals used in agriculture or that seep into agricultural areas. Sugar in Mexico's cola may not be of the same quality as that used in other countries like the USA. Who knows what conditions are experienced in mexico's sugar production industry. Have you ever been on a cruise of the carribean and tour the liquor production factories? The US government probably would have a few things to say about that step used elsewhere when nature and thr human hand are not separated from production in less than sterole conditions.

@Sheila T. If your food production system is not in order it does not matter what the laws say. It does not matter where the food originates. The outbreaks of ecoli poisoning have been long documented in food systems. Maybe, food systems have not been of too much concern for many people because so many people have benefited from systems managed by safety laws. But if the food that you feed into your food production process is contaminated, it does not amount to a hill of beans that there is exists a law to ward against that of those that are in the process do not follow the law. If you take to extremes what is happening politically in this country we very well may have a situation where the government and the corporations may find it far more profitable to pay fines and penalties than to keep food production safe? WE have a minority coalition in the USA that are in control of systems that others feel should safeguard us instead of leaving it a game of chance to not die from what you eat thinking that it is safe. Our society is controlled by people that in whatever pursuit they have has little of no care for others, maybe because they think that how everyone is subjected is not to what they may be subjected. Somehow they have the magic pill. Our annalysts have shown to what extent a company can produce, introduce harm and still make a profit? There is not one bit of concern for general society crossing the line of no return.

@Sheila T. I am more of the do as much for yourself as possible so that when the time comes to deal with what needs to be done and what conditions are you roped by that you know whether you can get ti done without having to rely on what just might not be available out there. It does not matter how much money you have. What matters is that you have some idea about just when it is best to call in an expect and to do what you can of all the little stuff. My family has never been in a financial situation to do many things that people of higher incomes could do. If you did not do it for yourself you probably did without. It did not make our lives any less enjoyable and gave a sense of accomplishment at getting things done. Hiring someone to do something just because you can afford it is the illness we suffer.

My parents reported soldiers would gift British girls stockings and chocolate. My mother reported the Americans were described as "over sexed, over paid and over here!". She joked the British soldiers thought that have Americans an edge in dating!

No

Ron, do you ever make bread pudding? This is a delicious, basic recipe: fyf20quid.co.uk/recipes/old-fashioned-bread-pudding/ Less basic, and untried, but looks good: www.bakingmad.com/recipe/spiced-fruit-bread-pudding

Tale bread might make stuffing

I mean stale

@@janetrogers5429 yes that is a good idea

@@lesleyvivien2876 ive only ever made bread and butter pudding which is slightly different recipe from bread pudding.

Our church bells being forcibly replaced by the shrieking of mosques.

So true!!

i disagree, previous generations adjusted to rationing and changes in availability of resources, assuming people cant adapt to social change because of age is ridiculous.

Human nature is resilient and adaptable! The strongest would survive just like then!

That's exactly what people said in 1939. People eventually adapted. We would do the same now.

I swear I heard my grandmother screaming at her as she did that, lol! I would have saved it, as well, even as a base for a vegetable soup.

You saw her drain it, but...maybe there was a pot or bowl it drained into??!!

Ah...you saw her drain the pot, but she may have had a bowl in the sink to catch the liquid!!!

What she picked was not Queen Ann's Lace, it was elderberry flowers. Queen Ann's Lace is an herb plant that grows low.

I noticed it didn't have the tiny black spot in the middle either, so not Queen Anne's Lace.

Sorry, Telco. In central PA. it's known for what it is... Elderberry.

Elderberries are a tall shrub that grows along treelines. Queen annes lace is a wild carrot

No, we don't. We have elderberry bushes in the US as well. Queen Anne's Lace is something altogether different.