A Really Interesting Old Recipe The very very old Foulsham Cookery book is still with me. As it is so old, Its value is really in its curiosity. I personally like to read the recipes in there. Some I think were quite ancient. Some may have come from the kitchens of large country houses. I … More A Life In a Cookery Book – 3
I don’t function much in religious circles these days. However, a weird series of flashbacks culminating in an almost tangible visit from a long passed-away lady made me reach for the internet once again. When I say that I don’t function in religious circles these days, I mean to say that I no longer attend … More Coming Back To Hearth
In which we discover a hitherto unknown problem for the genuinely frugal in the kitchen and have a rant about it… …so let us look at the recipes. Bear in mind that the information in the old recipe books is generally a lot more sparse than we would accept today. Certain techniques were taken for … More A Life in a Cookery Book – 2
I was just about to write my own appreciation of the Foulsham’s Universal Cookery Book when I came across this beautifully written and considerate blog. Have a look – then please return here! My copy of Foulsham’s came from a table sale somewhere between Addingham and Skipton, Yorkshire about twenty years ago. It was on … More A Life in a Cookery Book
And There It Is Again. More History Rewrites. How Sickening. Yet again, up comes some academic with general all-speak easy roll-off-the-tongue long-spout simple flavour spouty anodyne vanilla tasting telly talky have-a-ciggy talk talk pass-the-coffee-pot chattery crap about how Shakespeare was oh so Mr Central to mid-Victorian compulsory state education in the British Isles largely because … More They’re Rewriting History – Again
Language is fluid. It changes all the time. Writing any language down sets it fast. Writing about language is fun. The language of other times is interesting. Use of nouns, adjectives and verbs of former times amuses us and sometimes surprises us too. Is all language fluid? Perhaps not. The Law for example is not … More Language and History
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