Tag: cooking

• Cures For ‘Gardening Hands’

  It’s June, and the year is half gone, so I think it’s time we took another look at Mrs CW Earle and discover what advice she has on offer for the month in her 1897 lifestyle guide, Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden (you can see my original post here).   In the late 19th and…

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  June 26, 2015

  cooking, cucumbers, gloves, hand care, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Mrs CW Earle, Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden, Victorian self-help manual

• Do You Clean Vegetables With Soap?

  Today’s novel was described as ‘a real oddity’ and ‘a book unlike any other’ when it was discussed on the Radio 4’s ‘A Good Read’. House-Bound, by Winifred Peck, (published by Persephone), is the second in my loosely-themed ‘housework’ quartet. The time is 1941, the place is Edinburgh, and middle-class, middle-aged Rose Fairlaw, unable to…

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  June 6, 2012

  cooking, House-Bound. housework, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, servants, Winifred Peck, WW2

• Cupcake heaven – stitched and baked!

  And now for something completely different. Cup cakes! I have been making edible and non-edible varieties. The ones intended for consumption came courtesy of a recipe in The Hummingbird Bakery Cake Days: Recipes to make every day special, by Tarek Malouf, which I came across when I visited a friend who had been given a…

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  February 24, 2012

  cooking, cup cakes, embroidery, Oxfam, pincushions