120 Wartime Meat Recipes from American Meat Institute

 

In How To Cook A Wolf, M. F. K. Fisher wrote, "One way to horrify at least eight out of ten Anglo-Saxons is to suggest their eating anything but the actual red fibrous meat of a beast."

Around the same time Fisher published How To Cook A Wolf, the American Meat Institute printed this booklet of wartime recipes.  The tips provided in the "What The Housewife Can Do" section are still valuable, as are many of the recipes suggested by the Institute. However, the dozens of variety meat recipes make this 80-percenter shudder - I will always find offal, well, awful.

Below are a few of the recipes I found intriguing.