One of few veg I can guarantee Mats will eat (he is 11), is broccoli. Over enthusiastic about how much he may consume, I had enough leftover for a whole other family lockdown sitting. Turning sadly pale in colour (the broccoli!) in the fridge, this was the answer, this time anyway. And you probably will …
I have not been adding recipes for a few weeks due to finalising two books, exciting but stressful – if anyone wants to know about how to prepare a book for publishing, ask me! The first book has become the second so that Edwardian Tea which contains the fun side of that era’s history with recipes, will …
I made this for Anna del Conte using Granny Dot‘s war rationing recipe. It was a storm-ridden day so I took it to her house and they were almost blown off the tray as I transferred them from car to kitchen. The photograph below was taken there, so the beautiful plate is hers:
This is a good introduction of curry to children. We are all spoiled by the plethora of wonderful spices and curries we have in the UK so that this one may in contrast not be very exciting. It is however, comforting, and goes very well alongside a roast chicken. It is rather like the curry …
This was written in 1915 before rationing became official in 1917. However, using up the scraps was very much part of life, with the price of food having risen, and submarine warfare reducing the amount of produce successfully arriving on our shores from Canada and America. If I had to have this every week, or even …
Now that I have had my photos taken for the Daily Mail due out a week from Saturday (but as I said before, just wait and see as you never know) I am back to beavoring away on rationing recipes. These are beetroot rock cakes. There is mashed potato in them, hence their name but …
This is interesting insofar as the ingredients for the shortcrust pastry are unusual to our minds today. During the First World War Rationing period, not all ingredients were obtainable. It was therefore necessary to make do. The message here is that there are more ingredients than flour, fat and liquid to make pastry so that …
This afternoon 6 ears pricked up and one of my three dogs turned his head as if to say “What happened?” I have had a Eureka moment, really and truly. I can’t believe that a recipe for white sauce written during the rationing period at the end of the First World War in 1918 made me shriek …
I asked my childhood friend Piers Torday for advice on the book I am writing on Granny Dot. Having posted many of her pre and post war recipes which I have adapted slightly where necessary, I had not included in these the rationing recipes but simply added them to the book unadulterated. Piers suggested I …
