About half a year ago I had thoughts to make myself a bar of Cadbury’s chocolate, because the now-a-days chocolate bars are of a different sizes then the wartime ones. This way I could have a right sized Cadbury’s at events and would not have to change the size of a repro Cadbury’s wrapper. So I was looking for the right size of a Cadbury’s and asked on several forums about it. I got the measurements by email and started to make a wooden model. Next thing was to make a mold.
Then I found out that Lawrence Kelatow, a friend and fellow military re-enactor of mine, already had created edible WW2 D-Ration bars using Smooth-Sil 940 food-safe silicone. A wooden model was made and molded using Smooth-Sil 940. After the mold was thoroughly post-cured and washed according to the techincal bulletin, milk chocolate was melted and poured into the mold.
Lawrence describes the D-Ration and his process:
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