In the early nineteen forties,women shopped with ration stamps
that limited the amount of groceries they bought in order to
support the war effort. To supplement the their meager rations,
they grew vegetable gardens in spare plots of land and also in
their own back yards. Neat rows of lettuce, tomatoes, yellow wax
beans, green onions, cabbage and yellow squash were planted
everywhere. Since the ingredients for the meals depended upon
what was available in the cupboard and the garden, the home
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