The Right Way to Cook Greens
A cooking-instruction poster showing a saucepan of shredded greens with arrows reading 'Lid on tightly to keep the steam in', 'A cupful of boiling water' and 'Greens shredded before cooking', and a clock giving cooking time. It is practical instruction with no argument against any group; the only persuasive element is the framing 'The right way', an unqualified claim of correctness, which is why the closest technique tag is glittering-generalities.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1939
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- H.M. Stationery Office (printed by Johnson Riddle & Co., Ltd., London S.E.20)
- Region
- Western and Central Europe
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Churchill Government
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Home front, Health
- Event
- World War II
- Leader
- Winston Churchill
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (UK Crown copyright, published 1939-1945, 50 years expired before 1996); held by NARA, Unrestricted
British government poster printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Johnson Riddle & Co., Ltd. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-450.
Text on the object
The right way to cook greens LID ON TIGHTLY TO KEEP THE STEAM IN A CUPFUL OF BOILING WATER OR JUST ENOUGH TO KEEP THE PAN FROM BURNING GREENS SHREDDED BEFORE COOKING Cook for 10 minutes, or 15 - if the greens are tough [imprint:] 3452105 PRINTED FOR H.M.S.O. BY JOHNSON RIDDLE & CO., LTD. LONDON, S.E.20 51-3729
