Posts Tagged with: Chocolate

Dorothy Peel’s ‘My Own Rice Mould’

Last night our neighbour Jane was unable to speak, she enjoyed this pudding that much! It is creamy and really really is a treat, especially the chocolate version. I think the past really is coming back to life in this pudding and I encourage you to try it.

Rice pudding is a marmite thing; you love …

Homemade Crunchie!

Posted in - Recipes & Sweeties on February 25th 2013 0 Comments bicarbonate of soda Chocolate Crunchie Honeycombe Sweets Treats

This could not be easier to make – if you google you will find loads of recipes. It can be made with just golden syrup or with butter and sugar too. I have gone for the latter option because everything tastes better with butter!

Warning: stir and jiggle the pan as little as possible but enough …

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