Food

Food is not just a necessity for life, it enhances and enriches our lives. I love every aspect of food… not just eating it! I love cooking, and growing things, I love recipe books and cookery programmes, I love talking about food, reading restaurant menus… but most of all, sitting round a table in good company enjoying a wonderful meal!

Food by Lois

Chipped potatoes

In our family chipped or chippy potatoes are different from chips; as a child we didn’t often have chips at home and they would have been fried in dripping in those days. I remember have chips with fried egg for lunch, and maybe that was an economical meal when we were trying to save money. Economical, […]

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Mondamin tins and dariel cups

Aren’t these utensils wonderful? Wouldn’t you love to have them? 2.  mondamin cake tins 3.  jam sandwich tins 4.  round cake tins 5.  swiss roll tins 6.  dinner loaf tins 7.  cheese cake tins 8.  dariel cups 9.  bread pans 10. – 12c, 25 – 25c cutters 13. – 13a. double saucepans 14. blancmange moulds […]

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Rules for cooking

Another old cookery book which cost 2/6 (12½p), ‘The Way To A Good Table – Electric Cookery’, from 1937 by Elizabeth Craig. as she says in her introduction: It’s not an elaborate cookery book. it’s just a simple straightforward book which I’ve written to show you the easiest and quickest way to a good table. […]

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