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Chocolate Biscuits, 1920

This is an adapted recipe, using the other chocolate biscuit recipe on this blog as a base, which is not mine! More butter, more sugar, more chocolate = better biscuits! The photograph below is the 1920 unadapted version which you see below from Granny Dot’s book. The adapted version is below that.

In the words …

Daily Mail Shortbread, 1922

Posted in - Mrs C.S. Peel's Recipes & Peacetime & Recipes on February 7th 2014 0 Comments Daily Mail Mrs C.S. Peel shortbread

I have made shortbread so many times using so many different combinations. This is among the best and so you need look no further. I do quite like using icing sugar, though it produces a denser texture. When at Leiths School of Food and Wine I seem to remember being told that the key is …

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