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  • Other title(s): [FILM TAGS] [Allocated Series]
  • Year: 1918
  • Runtime: 3 mins
  • Description: A working class man expresses dissatisfaction about dinner, protesting to his wife that their neighbour still makes suet puddings and dumplings. Sneaking a look through the neighbour's window on the following morning, his wife sees that her neighbour uses grated potato mixed with flour as a substitute, to compensate for the wartime shortage. That evening she presents her husband with a pudding.
    Fictional piece showing how to use grated potato as a substitute for suet in cooking in Britain, 1918.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / propaganda, British - practical / society, British - sustenance / 31/3(41) / Class
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound