Bread omelette and fish made of rice: The ingenious (and unappetising) recipes that kept the Home Front fed in World War Two

Ingenious recipes show how wartime cooks made the most of rations Basics like rice and potatoes used to create 'fish' and 'meat' dishes Fish made from rice, duck made from sausage meat and an omelette made of bread - you would be forgiven for thinking these were dishes from a Heston Blumenthal restaurant.ADVERTISEMENTBut these remarkable recipes are actually the creation of resourceful World War II housewives who had to make do with meagre rations.They show how home cooks improvised with basic ingredients and food they could grow in their back gardens to concoct dishes that were otherwise unavailable in wartime Britain.Foods like duck, turkey and fish were hard to come by, so ingenious cooks made mock varieties from readily available ingredients like potatoes.The recipes, that are on display at the British Library’s Propaganda exhibition until September, include ‘Mock Duck’ - a concoction made from potatoes, sausage meat and a little sage - and ‘Imitation Sausage Rolls’, made from bean...