have to see if my friends who are coming over for dinner on Saturday night will be game to go ration book cooking too! I bet this recipe would also be good with sausages or bacon in it....loved your porridge post today by the way! Karen Are you re-using your tealeaves? Certainly with green and oolong tealeaves I reuse them several times, keeping them in an infuser so that they are not in liquid inbetween infusions. During the war, tea would have been loose, not in teabags, and I very much doubt each pot would have been used only the once. Even when I was a child, in the 60s, it was usual to "top up" the teapot at least once during breakfast time. I have not used old tea leaves yet Lynne, but I will soon, I remember my gran doing the when I used to stay with her! I am not using tea bags either, I always use loose tea, well most of the time, so I had been weighing it out every day. I have been topping up my tea pot too.....I am just drinking too many cups of tea! Karen It's amazing what you can make out of seemingly nothing. This hot pot sounds great. I remember my Granny being one of the 'lucky' ones as her father grew so much veg and they had their own chickens that they got to eat some fantastic meals and would always swap eggs for extra cheese! Thanks! It