This summer, when the temperatures have risen to record levels, I have been making some Old Fashioned Homemade Lemonade. I haven’t made it for years but I remember my mother […]
Modern Cookery For Private Families Several years ago my daughter gave me a copy of Eliza Acton’s Modern Cookery For Private Families, which was first published in 1845. I had […]
Every Easter the supermarkets seem to have an ever increasing variety of hot cross buns for sale. Perhaps this is because they seem to sell the traditional hot cross buns […]
I was sorting out the bookshelves which hold my many cookery books when I found an old battered book pushed to the back. I had completely forgotten about it and […]
The other day I had run out of bread and really fancied a boiled egg for my breakfast which obviously needed to be accompanied with bread and butter. I therefore […]
I grew up in a home where the kitchen was the heart of everything. Life was busy and no one really had time to sit around, but somehow everyone ended up in the kitchen. Cooking and baking were how we came together. My mother baked, and that’s really where it all started for me.
