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Category Archives: Teatime
A Taste Of Childhood
So you’ve lost your job, the son and heir has just been expelled from school again, the car has been towed for obstructing the highway, the wife has found out where you actually go to every Wednesday afternoon and your … Continue reading
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Cup Or Fairy, Cake Is The Question!
Ah, the ubiquitous cupcake, captured here in a sixties magazine picture and displaying them in all their gaudy glory! But their initial appearance was, in fact, a good deal earlier. The first mention of the cupcake can be traced as … Continue reading
Cookery Post Bag
Once again we have a Lillian Mattingly article, this time for a recipe request service. Back in the dim and distant thirties there was no internet to log onto for a recipe or advice and although it was always possible … Continue reading
To Be Seen, Not Heard . . .
During the Victorian era, although the social conditions were fairly dire for the working classes, things were improving further up the ladder. Then came the first world war which, in spite of being one of the bloodiest and most costly … Continue reading
Cooking For One
Returning once more to the archive, this is an article from April 1939 that shows how far emancipation had come since the turn of the century. The single, or bachelor, girl was no longer reliant on finding a husband in order … Continue reading
The Culture Of Milk
The importance of milk in human culture is attested to by the numerous expressions embedded in our languages, for example “the milk of human kindness”. In ancient Greek mythology, the goddess Hera spilled her breast milk after refusing to … Continue reading
Victoria’s Sponge
Named for Queen Victoria it is well known that the Queen herself had no great fondness for sweet things. Never-the-less, because of its revered status in kitchen folklore the name is enough to set fear in the heart of many … Continue reading
More Tea Vicar?
To round off the previous post on Afternoon tea that centred around sandwiches and cakes I should like here to add the final pages of the particular article on cakes that has shown some interest amongst visitors to this blog. I … Continue reading
Tea And Biscuits
The Biscuit The recipes and images given here are from a ‘Homes and Gardens’ magazine supplement from the mid-fifties. I’m afraid it’s a little tatty in places, but then so am I and it is a few years older than … Continue reading
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Five O’Clock Tea
That great British tradition, the afternoon tea! A basic menu would include sandwiches, cakes, buns, biscuits, scones, pastries and perhaps a chilled speciality like a soufflé or a magnificent jelly. In the Victorian kitchen the cook would be expected to … Continue reading
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