really old style living?

Rowan9

Churchmouse wrote: »

It is extremely complicated maryb :rotfl: I've had four ( no apologies to anyone ) DH is rhesus positive but with negative attributes. I am negative all the way They took about an armful and legful of blood from me during my 3rd pregnancy because I was "interesting" and it would aid research. Admittedly, this was about the time Noah was escorting the animals off the ark :rotfl: I was stabbed and poked beyond belief. They kept saying " you could ensure the life of thousands of babies" and like a fool I accepted it Who knows how great my contribution was

All I know is I'm grateful for the medical science that ensured I had four healthy babies. My mum was a midwife, knew too much, worried too much, but kept me in blissful ignorance

I'm the same churchmouse - mum was a midwife and I'm sure worried much more than me. I had a kidney infection and 2 false alarms just before DS was born. We stayed with my mum & dad for the week or so as i was really ill and had a toddler. Anyway, got up one morning and thought 'ah, I'm better'. waters broke immediately. I'm a great believer in nature giving you what you can cope with. Anyway, my mum couldn't get us off to the hospital quickly enough - 25 mile journey. I kept wanting to go to the loo and she was knocking on the door saying ' get out of there - you don't know how many 2nd babies have been born in toilets!' I am RH neg and first H was positive. My cousin worked in the blood dept at the hospital and was my first family visitor after each baby as she got my blood down for testing. yes, I got the jabs in the bum as both of mine are positive. Ah this brings back memories. Mum gone now, some years back, but this has made me smile!

born_blonde

Mardatha with regard to your interest in old ways of doing things, have you seen this website for children with a fascinating section on Historic cooking?
http://cookit.e2bn.org/

mardatha

Oooh I like that, ta. And its about my level of cooking skills :rotfl:
Am scared to look at the Victorian Workhouse Dinner. It's probably what we're having.

Frugalista

mardatha wrote: »

Can I ask how they dehydrated food in the middle ages - does anybody know ? Or how did they preserve fruit etc?

I know it's not exactly what you were asking, but my sister (who lives in New Zealand) sun-dries her tomatoes on the parcel shelf of her car and parks it in the full sunshine.

She says the temperature in there is astronomical and it works really well.:cool: It does make the car pong a bit though . HTH.

mardatha

That might work on my livingroom windowsill, faces south and gets really hot. I will try it ! ta

Winged_one

Thanks NualaBuala and MeanMarie!! Will check those out (I use Drury St Asian mkt quite a bit but never saw it - now I know just to ask!).

Am off out now for a walk in the sunshine as it makes such a change to have sunshine on a day I can take a lunchbreak. Will probably end up buried in a bookshop though, as usual (W****stones is gone, but I usually go across the road anyway to HF and browse the gardening, DIY, crafting and cooking sections pretty thoroughly).

ginnyknit

I keep meaning to go to the asian supermarket in Longsight but its chaos round there all the time so parking is difficult. I really must go and stock up, the rice is really cheap I noticed a sign saying BOGOFF on basmati.

Made ginger cake in the BM yesterday complete with sticky top to it, very moreish. I put the ingredients in the Bm pan and thought 'that looks as if there not enough mix and its very damp !' When I turned round and saw the flour was still in the scale I realised why -:rotfl:

Seedlings popping up well on the window ledges, must start second lot now to get my succession going - due to mini greenhouse blowing over last year I somewhat b**gered it up last year! So nice big paving stone in the bottom sorted that one out.

mardatha

I think I messed up the bread too. Have been scared to open it and am praying it will be ok :rotfl: it just didnt look right when I put it in, but I didnt want to know so just bunged it in :rotfl:

ginnyknit

Well theres always bread and butter pudding :rotfl:When life messes up your bread just add custard:T and homemade marmalade and an egg!

mardatha

It looks like a giant rock bun. Without currants. But nice and crusty. Will have it with soup !