WW2 CARROT COOKIES

Hi

Everybody likes chocolate chip cookies, right? In WW2 they didn't have much

chocolate or sugar so they used other things that they could grow, like carrots.

Carrots are naturally sweet so they were good for using in cakes and cookies etc.

During the war The Ministry of Food told children that eating carrots was just as good as eating ice-cream or Jelly and they also help you see during a black out.

So I'm going to have a go at making these Carrot Cookies and will report back to tell you if The Ministry of Food was right about Carrots.

I found my recipe on the 1940sexperiment.com website.

Ingredients

1 tbs margarine

2 tbs of sugar

1 tps of vanilla essence

6 tbs of self-raising flour

4 tbs of grated raw carrot

1 tbs of water

Method

Cream the margarine and sugar together and add vanilla.

Mix in the grated carrot.

Fold in the flour adding water as it gets dry.

Drop spoon fulls of the mixture onto a greased tray and press down a little.

Preheat the over to 200C.

Sprinkle tops of cookies with any left over sugar.

Place in the oven for 10 or 15 minutes.

As its nearly Christmas I'm going to add a little pinch of cinnamon to the mixture.

OK, so I made the Carrot Cookies and they were really good!