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Cake Making Secrets – The Balance

Posted on June 2, 2019

Good Cake Making If the first rule of successful cake making is to find a good recipe and follow it to the letter then the second must be that,  if reducing or increasing the basic quantities, to maintain the correct … Continue reading →

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The National Loaf

Posted on May 30, 2019

The National Loaf was instituted by the government from 1942 onwards as part of the home front effort during World War II. At the outbreak of war in September 1939, Britain, with a population of around 50 million, was importing … Continue reading →

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‘Hoosier’ Friend (In The Kitchen)?

Posted on April 20, 2019

The ‘Hoosier cabinet’ was a type of free-standing kitchen cabinet that also served as a workstation, larder and preparation unit that first became popular in the USA in the first decades of the 20th century. Since most houses of the … Continue reading →

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Gruel-baked-on-a-hot-rock-beside-a-roaring-fire

Posted on March 4, 2019

Pancakes are an ancient food that has been around since Neolithic humans domesticated einkorn wheat, (the earliest clear evidence of the domestication of einkorn wheat dates from around 8,650 BC) ground it into flour mixed with bird’s egg and goat’s … Continue reading →

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Ten Things You Never Knew About . . . Rice

Posted on February 24, 2019

1) Rice cultivation is thought to have begun in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River which at 6,380 km is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the world. It is also the longest in … Continue reading →

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Granny Robertson Meets Granny Smith

Posted on January 30, 2019

The Granny Smith apple was discovered in Australia in the 1860’s. A chance seedling on a compost heap in the orchard of Maria Ann Smith led to the first apple to be introduced into the United Kingdom in the 30’s. … Continue reading →

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Further Grim Warnings

Posted on December 6, 2018

As a follow up to the previous post of ‘cautionary tales’ taken from Bunty, a story book from the seventies aimed at teenage girls, and with this post I conclude the round half dozen. But once again the consequences are … Continue reading →

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