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Should you wish to make spinach custard…
I mentioned that in the ‘miscellaneous’ section, right at the back, pages 727-730, of my Modern Practical Cookery, published in 1936, there is a recipe for spinach custard. My mind actually boggled at...
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Simply watercress, even more simply pears
When my husband and I first got together we each had a stash of cookery books, which eventually became a single stash. A book he often used – and in fact I don’t know where it is now, was called...
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Cold feet require hot soup to enliven them
Yesterday, on the first day of October, I share an introduction to the month in terms of cooking from the 1930’s book The National Mark Calendar of Cooking. The authors were Ambrose Heath and Dorothy...
View ArticleMidnight soup again
It’s become part of our family tradition to have Midnight Soup on Christmas Eve – not at midnight though! Every year it is different in some way, either I accidentally miss something out or maybe I’m...
View ArticlePortable Soup
We take so many things for granted, our lives are so easy because of modern conveniences, even something as simple as stock cubes, so imagine what it would have been like before they were as readily...
View ArticleTown soup
I was looking through an old newspaper and came across a recipe for town soup. I was in a hurry so didn’t actually read it, but saved it for later. Coming back I saw the title and wondered what town...
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I found a recipe for what I thought was Towns Soup yesterday… which sounded interesting, until I discovered it was tongue soup which involved boiling the body part for six hours then grating the...
View ArticleLor, m’am! I gave the water to the pigs !
Waste not want not, that was how I was brought up and I confess I follow this to a ridiculous length and am forever coming across dishes of stuff or freezer bags of stuff which I have no idea even what...
View ArticlePotage de Bruxelles
I had a little conversation here a couple of days ago about emulsifying machines – which we would call blenders; I mentioned some eighty year-old recipes using an EM and it included Potage de...
View ArticleCasserole of tripe and spring soup
The National Mark Calendar of Cooking was first published nearly a hundred years ago as part of a government initiative for a healthy, locally sourced, fresh diet for the population. The National Mark...
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