really old style living?

witchwoopiggy

oo nice to see so many faces :wave:
well i think my booming voice in S*insburys did something, thought i would look online and ladys look at this
www.sainsburys.co.uk/groceries/index.jsp
its now £1.02p :rotfl::rotfl: still :eek::eek: though , thank you for the lower price will take a wander to lidi* when i feel better, got plursey at mo so i sound like a old woman of 90 the sec cold air hits

Still washing ma fleece, up side to it is i have lovely soft hands like a babys b*m :rotfl: hubby thinks i have lost the plot with all the wool hanging around like dead things.

But on a serious note, christmas :eek:, i have been grabing cheap bits through out the year managed to get the niece and nephews wii games at £15 each paid for by survey money ie amazon vouchers, plus grand daughters gifts the same way. My son and his girlfriend are getting a cross stitch birth sampler (just got to finish it in time) Hubby knitted him a cardi and still knitting him socks and mum and dad in law getting a dvd night hamper have cut right down on how much people get or i spend to be honest im fed up of spending a fortune. Going back to the thought not the price here. Looking forward to trying my chutneys at christmas though and as for sweeties all i can say is bring them on :rotfl:as long as you dont mind homemade pepermints and anything else i can make

Katkin_2

mardatha wrote: »

I got one book that's terrific and that's the slow cooker recipe one that they were talking about on another thread, Called something like 200 recipes for slow cookers. I love that, its great.

I loved this thread and used to read avidly. Never posted mind. Too shy. Anyway, Mardatha any chance you know where to get this book from? I love my slow cooker but find most books too short, boring or only for 'one pot' cooking which apparently isnt a slow cooker. Cheers.

D&DD

http://www.!!!!!!!!!.com/md3/openhearthcooking/aaCookbookindex.html

it doesn't like copying this link the site is angel(no space) fire.com thats blanked out can't figure out why??

http://mmm.lib.msu.edu/search/browsedisplay.cfm?t=2&subcol=1030

These are a couple to be getting on with boys have just arrived home back later with loads more

I got my mum one called Invalid Cookery lol when my Dad had his accident and was bedbound for a while but its got some great recipes in it and some which would curl your hair :rotfl:will get her to bring it over tomorrow so I can poach some for here

Mrs Fry is a great author from around the same time as Mrs Beeton I have her DailyMail cookbook,my Mrs Beeton is a 1936 reprint edition.

mardatha

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0600620697
It was 1p when I got it though! is great.
Redlady that's what we're trying to tell the council, its cant be damped down its always drawing so its letting in air somewhere. I liked the Charnwood better WCS. But this one is certainly HOT! :rotfl:

mardatha

Just found an old favourite on Amazon... Years ago when I was working as a nurse in a big hospital, I found this book. try it, you 'll love it
http://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Pair-Feet-Monica-Dickens/dp/0140009698/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1321548002&sr=1-1

REVIEW

It can be so enticing to peek behind the scenes of somewhere like a hospital. This hugely entertaining and amusing autobiographical book by Monica Dickens takes us back to the early days of the Second World War, when women found themselves willing, but often unable, to participate in the country's struggle. One thing that was open to even the least trained was nursing. Dickens gives us a frank, mostly hilarious yet often poignant view of what things were really like. She doesn't pull her punches: one moment we experience the reign of terror inflicted on lowly nurses by the God-like Sisters and Matron; the next we are reeling from the descriptions of the suffering and bravery of patients; immediately after, we are chuckling about goings-on behind the scenes, whilst wondering how anyone ever managed to leave the hospital alive. This book is as entertaining as it is historically valuable, not as a dry history of hospitals of the period, but as a real fly-on-the-wall experience of the wartime hospital from a nurse's point of view.

westcoastscot

That looks a lovely book - have reserved it from my library

D&DD

ooer Mrs its Mrs Peel not Mrs Fry wonder where that came from (I was scoffing a turkish delight at the time in my defence!)

Now for an oldie taken from my Frugal Colonial Housewife circa 1742!

To Ragout a piece of beef

Take a buttock of beef,interlarded with great lard,rolled up with chopped spice,sage,parsley,thyme and green onions.

Put it into a great sauce-pan and bind it close with coarse tape.

When it is half done turn it let it stand over the fire on a stove for 12 hours.

It is fit to be eat hot or cold.

When it is cold slice it out thin and toss it up in a fine ragout of sweetbreads,oysters mushrooms and palates.

What in gods name is a palate lol ???

Cookbook links
http://www.thousandeggs.com/cookbooks.html

http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/

http://vintagecookbooks.healthyeatingandlifestyle.org/index.html

mardatha

I dunno, but I stuck on "interlarded with great lard" :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Is exciting to imagine a housewife out on the prairie trying to wrestle that lot into a primitive wood cook stove innit!

D&DD

Not exactly healthy eating eh?
Its quite a neat little book if you can understand the phrasing apparently it was the only cookbook published in America between 1742 and 1796.
As mine is a reprint it has a little about the history american cooking in the front.

prepareathome

mardatha wrote: »

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0600620697
It was 1p when I got it though! is great.
Redlady that's what we're trying to tell the council, its cant be damped down its always drawing so its letting in air somewhere. I liked the Charnwood better WCS. But this one is certainly HOT! :rotfl:

I had never bought a slow cook book, although been using one for years but just soups, roasts, stews etc., so treated myself to the book - downloaded it onto my kindle so tomorrow for first time going to do a meat pud in it, oh so excited only found out either on here or another thread that suet puds are great in SC so steak and mushroom pud it will be. Actually used the bookmarks on kindle for the first time and bookmarked quite a few recipes I will be making over next few days. Looking forward to trying and sweet pud or two as never done desserts either.

Also boy have been printing like mad all those fab old recipes.

Hubby and I will be on our own this Christmas for first time in 37 years, we have been going to daughters for years as she has her hubby's parents and they have more room but this year I just want a quiet time, we are not drinkers and although its nice does get a bit noisy and my granddaughter is 12 now so not a baby, but we will pop over to youngest sons to see their children before they go to his wife's mums for dinner, then back home to peace. So will avidly drink up all suggestions for a nice old fashioned Christmas, and definitely no turkey, I do not like it and hubby not fussed.

Might do that for Boxing Day as well - Old fashioned that is as always have a friend and her family then ( done so since she was widowed at 45, first they came Christmas Day but then her daughter married so they go to his parents and come to mine BD - friend and her daughter are vegetarian but not the granddaughters or the hubby, so any recipes anyone things would fit in with the theme would be great.


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