The Ministry of Food's Miracle Food No 5 was Cheese. The World War 11 Radio Doctor announced that a cheese of 20 lb contains as much nutriment as a sheep's carcase of 60 lb! The war-time cheese ration of 2 oz per person per week did not go very far - grated in a lunch-box sandwich, cooked as a souffle grilled on toast as Welsh rabbit or used as a bubbling brown sauce on cauliflower cheese or macaroni cheese..JPG) |
| Milk containers such as these would contain milk headed for the factory to be turned into cheese. My grandfather, who had survived being an Anzac during the First World War, worked in a milk factory in the 1930s - hence he was not required to join the forces for a second time. |