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

Unusual fruits make unusual jam

I can’t remember when I bought this book, but as it was published in the sixties and was reprinted after decimalization and cost me fourteen pence, I’m guessing it was early seventies. Its recipes are odd and not very exact because they are old, and probably weren’t handed down as very exact! Here is the introduction: […]

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Rose petal jam

Some roses smell so divine they seem almost edible… and of course they are. I’m not sure what flavour you’d get munching on a bud, but putting a few delicate smelling petals in a jar of caster sugar perfumes it ready for all sorts of recipes… or you could make some rose petal jam. Here’s […]

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Spirtle

 A spurtle and porridge… can you guess what you might use the spurtle for? Yes, stirring the porridge! I foolishly didn’t think to ask which was the stirring end, so for many years I was in fact stirring upside-down… I don’t think it affected the taste of the porridge! In case you’re wondering, the holding […]

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