Category: How they used to do it
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Peptonized gruel
Recipes for the ill and recuperating were standard inclusions in cookery advice up until the middle of last century.
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Ever hot-ish
We loved baking on the weekend, and Mum was happy for us to do it, but there was always this caveat: ‘you’ll have to get the oven hot first’. I learned to cook on our 30-year old farm wood combustion stove. That’s it pictured above, just before it was replaced in the 1990s. It taught me some…
Rhubarb sago 