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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!
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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A good crop of apples!
Our russet apple tree is loaded with blossom this year; we had a good show last year, but the weather knocked it off and there weren’t many insects about because it was cold and miserable. This year we have had plenty of sunny days, quite warm, but very cold nights which apparently blossom likes and it’s […]
MorePaste sandwiches anyone?
Here’s an illustration from the 1935 Round-the-Clock cookery book, compiled by Mrs Wise and published ‘issued from’ The Fleetway House, Farringdon street, London. it is a strange book as the pages are so thick they are almost like cardboard, and really rough. Maybe it was cheap! I’m not sure I would fancy paste sandwiches, but […]
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Treasure Trove
This advertisement was in my mum’s copy of Mrs Beeton; I don’t know the date of the advert, if it was very much older than the book which my mum was given for Christmas in 1950. It is striking in many ways. First of all, the idea of captain Cook arriving at a place which is […]
MoreStrawberry salad
… and in today’s salad we have: mangetout peas parsley pineapple lettuce spinach tomatoes grapes cauliflower celery cucumber spinach purple sprouting broccoli yellow pepper courgette avocado and yea, strawberries!
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Lois Elsden 