Recipes, history and other things
Source: The Stork Wartime Cookery Book by Susan Croft (1940) This book was a lovely present from my cast after we finished a production of Lilies on the Land in August, a show about Land Girls. It is full of useful wartime cooking advice including a section on ‘how to save your dinner if air-raids... Continue Reading →
Source: The New Home Encyclopaedia, Edited by John Wheeler (1932) My father bought me this book for Christmas last year and it is amazing. Want to know how to make a lily pond? Check. What about entertaining unexpected visitors? It’s got you. The rules of whist? How to keep geese? How to be presented at... Continue Reading →
Source: Mrs Beeton’s Hors d’Oeuvres & Savouries (1925) I finally found the time and money to get my awful 1980s bathroom overhauled and whilst I was stuck in the flat with a sulking dog and two faintly chaotic workies, I thought I would take the chance to make some historic recipes. Recipe: Procure 5 oz.... Continue Reading →
Source: Good Eating: A Second Book of War-Time Recipes (1944) I’ve dipped into this book before when I made the surprisingly good Corned Beef and Beetroot Hot, but in summary, it’s a reprint of a rationing-focused collection of recipes compiled by the Daily Telegraph. We have Mrs W. S. Fletcher from Wellow Cottage, Nr. Newark... Continue Reading →
Source: Puddings & Sweets, Ministry of Food War Cookery Leaflet 13 (1944) A couple of my university friends came to visit the week before last. After wrestling with the fact that we’d known each for 20 years, we had a lovely couple of days jaunting around Edinburgh and its environs, including a trip to somewhere... Continue Reading →
Source: The Art of Cookery by Hannah Glasse (1747) I’ve been a bit quiet on here recently, this is for a couple of reasons – work has been A Lot recently and on top of this I bought a flat at the end of November. Calling it a doer-upper is kind and I’ve had so... Continue Reading →
Source: Home Management; A Comprehensive Guide-book to the Management of the Household, containing authorative contributions by Experts, compiled and edited by Margaret Garth and Mrs Stanley Wrench (1938) This post is a mash-up of three of my favourite things, Angela Brazil, Home Management and cake. The cake is fairly self-explanatory and I’ve talked about why... Continue Reading →
For some reason I wrote this blog post in the form of a conversation. With myself. I think I may have been on my own for too long. I was on Cramond Island last week and it was covered with Lady’s Bedstraw (a common UK native with dark green leaves and spikes of yellow flowers),... Continue Reading →
Source: Make a Meal of Cheese (1973) This little tome was published by the Cheese Information Service (catchily known as the CIS) which was formed in 1973 to just generically promote cheese (yes, really). The service is also responsible for a series of five pamphlets entitled Choose Cheese. There’s Nothing Like it, which I am yet... Continue Reading →
Source: Saucepans & The Single Girl; Bachelor-bait Recipes and Dazzling Ideas for Entertaining by Jinx Morgan and Judy Perry (1965) This is not the first time I have cooked something from this book, so if you’d like a little background on it, you can find it here. It seems that in my last post, however, I... Continue Reading →
Cabbages and Kings. And Kate 