Soldier on the Hill by French Jackie

Author:French, Jackie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2014-09-21T16:00:00+00:00

chapter nineteen

The Locked Room

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From the Biscuit Creek Gazette, 1942

TEA RATION! FINDING SUBSTITUTES!

Necessity is the mother of invention runs an old saw. Housewives, too, are making determined efforts to find substitutes for tea and coffee. A Gunnedah woman claims good results with wheat roasted in the oven and ground in a Beatrix wheat grinder. This provided an excellent substitute for coffee, she declared, after boiling water was poured on the mixture and a drop of vanilla was added for taste.

Ripe kurrajong seeds have been claimed by a city woman as the equal of tea, though the taste is said to resemble that of coffee. Tea-tree, which grows prolifically in coastal areas, used to be popular among bushmen as a substitute for tea.

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