John Shaw Posted 9 January , 2005 Share Posted 9 January , 2005 On a lighter note I am reading all quiet on the western front, on page 13 I found a referance to (synthetic honey) has any pal any info as to what synthetic honey may be. john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KONDOA Posted 9 January , 2005 Share Posted 9 January , 2005 At a flying guess it will be something like sugar and birch sap boiled up. Probably quite nice, who knows?? Roop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john w. Posted 9 January , 2005 Share Posted 9 January , 2005 Looks chemical to me .... As the war dragged on, Germany turned to science to produce foodstuffs for the people. Several food items in use today were developed during the war. One of the biggest was the production of margarine (an edible oil product) to replace butter. Artificial honey, coffee, gravy, puddings and many other items were developed to replace items sent to the front. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 10 January , 2005 Share Posted 10 January , 2005 Remarque refers of course to "Kunsthonig" which is indeed a honey substitute Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest davidmac Posted 11 January , 2005 Share Posted 11 January , 2005 could it be corn syrup? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
egbert Posted 12 January , 2005 Share Posted 12 January , 2005 Alright guys, once again; it's "Kunsthonig" (Artificial honey)! Artificial honey is the old synonym for invert sugar cream. In order to make a cream, starch sugar and starch syrup are accumulated in commercial made invert sugar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canadawwi Posted 12 January , 2005 Share Posted 12 January , 2005 An excellent book that discusses this subject is "Victory Must Be Ours / Germany in the Great War 1914-1918" by Lawrence Moyer, Hippocrene Books, New York, 1995. "Scarcities which gave birth to rationing and the black markets also led to one of the major growth-industries of wartime Germany - the quest for substitute products, Ersatz products. In the laboratories of research institutions and in back room of profit-minded entrepreneurs, agile minds wrestled with the problem of the shortages and came forth with a vast array of surrogates. Skilled German chemists ultimately produced many ingeneous products of considerable usefulness. Sometimes the process proved easy. Turning fruits into marmalade as an alternate for butter pre-dated the war as did various coffee substitutes. Germans before the war drank enormous amounts of coffee but only the upper classes drank it "pure", those with modest incomes drank coffee which had been mixed with chicory or ground kernels..." (pp. 160-161) To summarize, the rest of this section goes on to discuss substitutes for tea (herbs and strawberry leaves), fillers or stretchers for bread, substitues for cooking oils and fat components for fat based products, and egg substitutes, etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Shaw Posted 15 January , 2005 Author Share Posted 15 January , 2005 Thanks guys What a mine of information the forum is, long may it continue. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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