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Canadian Lemon Pie: 1923

While my favourite lemon pie mixture involves several egg yolks, butter and sugar, Granny Dot’s involves milk and cornflour. It is delicious and much less time consuming to make, even less so if you use pre-made pastry. However, part of the joy is in recreating the past and using both lard and butter in the pastry …

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