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This is where I note my efforts as I try to recreate some old recipes. Most are taken from my small collection of handwritten recipe books which date from the late 1700's to around 1922. I also have a collection of old tatty old recipe books, well thumbed and heavily splashed from years of use. I love all of them.
The old-fashioned very stylised handwriting writing is sometimes difficult to decipher, measurements and cooking instructions are minimal, no tin sizes given. Luckily I enjoy a challenge. Just to complicate things I cook and bake on my wood-fired Rayburn, which can be... unpredictable.
I suspect this blog is less about the food and more about my passion for these lovely old books and the wonderful women who wrote them.
Wonderful. Looking forward to reading about your creations! It would be even better if we could sample them! Some of the best recipes come from our mothers, especially food we recreate from those childhood memories. And those recipes from hundreds of years ago are intriguing. Good luck
ReplyDeleteI would love to be eating a bowl of her 'white stew', fried liver and onions, lemon meringue pie, or orange mousse. The white stew was made in her pressure cooker, the main ingredient was lamb. She knew I wouldn't eat it if I knew, so she changed it to white stew. She was also a wonderful bread-maker. I can make decent bread, but it never comes close to hers! She died 29 years ago, yesterday. She loved lily-of-the-valley flowers, I tried really hard to get some for her funeral, no luck. So now I try to grow a few for her.
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