Recipes, history and other things
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: Summer Cookery by Aunt Kate, presented by the People’s Journal (1938) Another from Aunt Kate - I find her peppy tone and terrible recipe ideas strangely comforting in this time of chaos. Also, I can’t make anything actually nice, like a cake, because I’d have to eat the whole thing on my own. Recipe: Take... Continue Reading →
Source: Summer Cookery by Aunt Kate, presented by the People’s Journal (1938) I bought this little book a couple of weeks ago on a trip to Aberdour. It came from one of the strangest vintage shops I’ve ever been in and mostly I bought it because it was by ‘Aunt Kate’, also it cost 50p.... Continue Reading →
Cabbages and Kings. And Kate 