The June 1982 Ensign has an article by Elder F. Enzio Busche, of the First Quorum of Seventy. This is the link to the article:

http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=f614aeca0ea6b010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1

Elder Busche joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as an adult but lived during and after World War II as a child in Germany. I quote from his article:
“Frequently I am asked, “What were the most valuable items in the days of starvation in Germany?”…As for what we needed, the food item we relied on most was vegetable oil. With a bottle of vegetable oil, one could acquire nearly every other desirable item. It had such value that with a quart of vegetable oil one could probably trade for three bushels of apples or three hundred pounds of potatoes. Vegetable oil has a high calorie content, is easy to transport, and in cooking can give a tasty flavor to all kinds of food items that one would not normally consider as food—wild flowers, wild plants, and roots from shrubs and trees. For me and my family, a high-quality vegetable oil has the highest priority in our food storage, both in times of daily use and for emergency usage. When vegetable oil is well-packed and stored appropriately, it has a long storage life without the necessity of refrigeration. We found ours to be in very good condition after twenty years of storage, but circumstances may vary in different countries and with different supplies.”

The question I asked myself and talked over with my mother in 1982 after I read Elder Busche’s article was, “Why was oil so important during this time of famine after the war?”

My mother’s comment was enlightening, “Every nation has its fry bread.” My mother had a large family and baked her own bread. She realized, however, that in famine conditions, cooking fuel is also scarce. That is why cooking oil and other fats are treasured commodities. You can fry pieces of bread dough and stir fry meat more quickly and with less fuel than you can bake them or even boil them. When fuel is really scarce, oil would be much more valuable.

Many of us have lived our entire lives without conditions being such that we have had to worry about such extreme conditions as many Europeans did after World War II. Some of them experienced blindness caused by not having enough fat in their bodies–fat enough so that the fat soluble vitamins we all need to maintain eyesight could be processed by their bodies.

Think about all the ways people fry bread. You might come up with a lot that you already do or enjoy yourself.