I love visiting my Gran. And as she lived through the war and rationing, she’s been a goldmine of information.

Gran has always been hardworking and resourceful. Like her own mum, she was great at making supplies stretch.

“There wasn’t much bread,” she says, ‘but we made soda bread. And for stew you could sometimes get a bone from the butcher. It was a good idea to make friends with the butcher, and then he’d put aside an extra bone for you to boil.”

One of her favourite stories is how Arthur the butcher taught her to skin a rabbit. The skin could be cured and the fur used to line a little person’s coat, and there’d be rabbit pie for dinner. Nothing was wasted.

Get Gran’s wartime soda bread recipe here>>

“We looked after each other,” she says. “Neighbours looked out for each other and we shared what we…