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Jellied Aspic

Posted in - Mrs C.S. Peel's Recipes & Recipes on January 23rd 2014 2 Comments 1900s Aspic jellied mould

In Dorothy Peel’s My Own Cookery Book, (1923), we are told how to make aspic and savoury jellies. As a child on summer holidays with great grandparents in Murray Bay, Canada, I remember sitting in front of aspic moulded into an oval shape, within which was a pretty picture of half a boiled egg with finely sliced vegetables surrounding …

Eat meat from happily reared animals, and then you have their permission to really enjoy what you eat. Seconded by my great great grandmother, Dorothy Peel, in her books 100 years ago: ‘To judge by a letter which has appeared in the daily press and from private conversations it would seem that many people think that to abstain from meat on one of two days a week and to limit their total consumption to 2 ½ lb. per head per week is a restriction which may seriously affect their health. To be quite frank, it may affect their greed, but it certainly will not adversely affect their health; indeed, there seems good reason to think that less meat-eating would improve the health of the well-to-do.’ Mrs C.S. Peel, The Eat Less Meat Book, 1917