In Leningrad, everything from food to electrical power is in short supply. Factories lack electricity, and exhausted workers man lathes driven by bicycle wheels. The sewage system breaks down under German shellfire. Workers seek anything consumable to be turned into food. Dust from flour mills is swept up and bagged.
Yeast is turned into soup.
Soup is turned into jelly. Horses that collapse are slaughtered on the spot. Seaweed is turned into broth. Wallpaper is stripped from walls and the dried flour that had backed it as adhesive paste is turned into bread. Bu I wnated their bread more than I wanted them to stay alive.