Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Welcome back to Sunday Morning: The Old Cookbook Show! Today we’re diving into wartime cooking with Oatmeal Jam Squares from the 1940s Ration Recipes booklet by Robin Hood Flour Mills.
We’ll chat about how oats were promoted as meat substitutes and honey alternatives during WWII, and why today’s “luxury” ingredients like blueberries and pectin would’ve been staples back then. Plus, stick around to the end for an update on our Give Hope Wings cross-Canada flight in support of Hope Air—helping Canadians access medical care far from home. 🛩️❤️
Ingredients & Keywords:
Rolled oats • Brown sugar • Butter • Flour • Salt • Baking soda
Wild blueberry jam • Pectin preserves • WWII wartime cooking • Sugar rationing
Vintage recipe revival • Old cookbook series • Homemade jam tips
Hope Air charity • Give Hope Wings flight • Canadian medical travel support
Don’t forget to:
✔️ LIKE if you love vintage recipes
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✔️ COMMENT your favorite jam-filled dessert or how you’d tweak these oat squares!
Wartime Oatmeal Jam Squares
These "scrumptious" squares are for special occasion
¾ cup shortening.
½ cup brown sugar, firmly packed.
2½ cups ROBIN HOOD ROLLED OATS.
1 cup ROBIN HOOD FLOUR (measured after sifting).
1 teaspoonful soda.
½ teaspoonful salt.
thick jam.
Cream shortening, which has been left to soften at room temperature, add sugar and blend until very smooth.
Add ROBIN HOOD ROLLED OATS and mix thoroughly.
Sift four, soda and salt and blend it first mixture until crumbly.
Put one half the mixture on a well greased baking pan, 9"x12", and press firmly into a smooth layer. Spread with jam (plum or strawberry gives excellent flavour).
Sprinkle remaining crumb mixture over the top of the jam and pat until smooth. The whole mixture should be no more than ¾" thick.
Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees F.).
Baking time—30 minutes.
While warm cut into squares.
Do you want something "super" that tastes like the cakes you made in pre-ration days?
Then this is the recipe for you, though probably you'll want to keep it for special occasions.
The actual cake uses only a small amount of sugar, and jam will be readily available due to the special canning sugar ration.
2025 Give Hope Wings Fundraiser Page:
https://ca-p2p.engagingnetworks.app/31190/ghw2025/180784/glens-hangar
More info about Hope Air: hopeair.ca
hopeair.ca/impact-report-2024
Our Fundraiser flight will be making stops in June 2025:
Thursday June 5: Gore Bay (CYZE) - Launch Event
Friday June 6 - Saturday June 7: Sault Ste. Marie (CYAM) - Hope Air Day
Sunday June 8 Marathon (CYSP) - Lunch
Sunday June 8 Sioux Lookout (CYXL)
Monday June 9 Red Lake (CYRL) - Reception Event
Tues June 10 - Wed June 11 Winnipeg (CYWG) - Patient and Partner Event
More dates to be announced
Here is the link to our Apron: searchandrescuedenim.com/products/s-r-x-glen-friends-chef-apron?country=IO&variant=50865649877152
searchandrescuedenim.com/GLENANDFRIENDSCOOKING
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Welcome back to Sunday Morning: The Old Cookbook Show! Today we’re diving into wartime cooking with Oatmeal Jam Squares from the 1940s Ration Recipes booklet by Robin Hood Flour Mills.
We’ll chat about how oats were promoted as meat substitutes and honey alternatives during WWII, and why today’s “luxury” ingredients like blueberries and pectin would’ve been staples back then. Plus, stick around to the end for an update on our Give Hope Wings cross-Canada flight in support of Hope Air—helping Canadians access medical care far from home. 🛩️❤️
Ingredients & Keywords:
Rolled oats • Brown sugar • Butter • Flour • Salt • Baking soda
Wild blueberry jam • Pectin preserves • WWII wartime cooking • Sugar rationing
Vintage recipe revival • Old cookbook series • Homemade jam tips
Hope Air charity • Give Hope Wings flight • Canadian medical travel support
Don’t forget to:
✔️ LIKE if you love vintage recipes
✔️ SUBSCRIBE for more Old Cookbook Show episodes
✔️ COMMENT your favorite jam-filled dessert or how you’d tweak these oat squares!
Wartime Oatmeal Jam Squares
These "scrumptious" squares are for special occasion
¾ cup shortening.
½ cup brown sugar, firmly packed.
2½ cups ROBIN HOOD ROLLED OATS.
1 cup ROBIN HOOD FLOUR (measured after sifting).
1 teaspoonful soda.
½ teaspoonful salt.
thick jam.
Cream shortening, which has been left to soften at room temperature, add sugar and blend until very smooth.
Add ROBIN HOOD ROLLED OATS and mix thoroughly.
Sift four, soda and salt and blend it first mixture until crumbly.
Put one half the mixture on a well greased baking pan, 9"x12", and press firmly into a smooth layer. Spread with jam (plum or strawberry gives excellent flavour).
Sprinkle remaining crumb mixture over the top of the jam and pat until smooth. The whole mixture should be no more than ¾" thick.
Bake in a moderate oven (350 degrees F.).
Baking time—30 minutes.
While warm cut into squares.
Do you want something "super" that tastes like the cakes you made in pre-ration days?
Then this is the recipe for you, though probably you'll want to keep it for special occasions.
The actual cake uses only a small amount of sugar, and jam will be readily available due to the special canning sugar ration.
2025 Give Hope Wings Fundraiser Page:
https://ca-p2p.engagingnetworks.app/31190/ghw2025/180784/glens-hangar
More info about Hope Air: hopeair.ca
hopeair.ca/impact-report-2024
Our Fundraiser flight will be making stops in June 2025:
Thursday June 5: Gore Bay (CYZE) - Launch Event
Friday June 6 - Saturday June 7: Sault Ste. Marie (CYAM) - Hope Air Day
Sunday June 8 Marathon (CYSP) - Lunch
Sunday June 8 Sioux Lookout (CYXL)
Monday June 9 Red Lake (CYRL) - Reception Event
Tues June 10 - Wed June 11 Winnipeg (CYWG) - Patient and Partner Event
More dates to be announced
Here is the link to our Apron: searchandrescuedenim.com/products/s-r-x-glen-friends-chef-apron?country=IO&variant=50865649877152
searchandrescuedenim.com/GLENANDFRIENDSCOOKING
Discount code to be used at checkout: GLENANDFRIENDSCOOKING
Buy us a cup of tea: ko-fi.com/glenandfriendscooking
Help us out with a PayPal donation: paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=T4FPGUQABAUTE
Join this channel to get access to perks:
youtube.com/channel/UCsU15yvILBmnHPeAf4SFVaQ/join
This channel is nothing without you our viewers! Thanks for watching the Old Cookbook Show and our Historical Cooking.
#LeGourmetTV #GlenAndFriendsCooking
Check out our Aviation and Flying Channel: youtube.com/glenshangar
