Preparedness for when

dandy-candy

I'm not even going to click on any slug recipes....
However I am perfectly happy picking up slugs all day long with my bare hands, whereas my big, butch, tough hubby turns green at the thought of doing that!

Re wartime diet, it was very carb heavy and needed to be with no central heating and plenty of manual labour both in and out of the house. I have a beauty book published just after the war ended saying how many women found they got dry skin towards the end of the war due to the lack of fats in their diet - an interesting point given how many people nowadays try to lose weight on a low fat diet!

LoveLifeAgain

Some of the books sound good and I will be checking them out on Amazon and Ebay, thank you very much everyone
I have a Bero recipe book, more like a leaflet really and use Mrs. Beeton's All about cookery a lot which I bought in the 60's especially for her bread pudding so no waste for white or brown bread. I like Delia for Christmas fare.


Eat slugs....:eek:

GreyQueen

mrs-moneypenny wrote: »

I'd fight the slugs for the lettuce but draw the line at eating them.

GQ Dh has twice now caught a wood pigeon pecking about in the grow bags my runner beans are growing in so I think we've found our culprit.

I caught one of the beggars stuffing its beak in my strawberry patch yesterday. There's decent eating on a wood pigeon, they oughta stay away from me because I know a fast way to prep them for the table, although I haven't got an efficient way to kill 'em, the discharge of air weapons on suburban allotments not being correct form, I believe.

Like others, I am not even going to look at slug recipes, vile creatures that they are. As some old hands will know, I had a most terrible go-round with slugs in the late summer of 2013. The plague was of biblical proportions and I was killing in excess of 100 per visit.

And they were those really really big slugs. And, do you know what? Although my allotment is surrounded by derelict allotments with plenty of slug-cover, I barely see a slug now. Found precisely six of them in 2014, all of which I killed. And have barely seen more than a half-dozen per year since.

Yet lottie pals not far away are having a terrible time and can't understand how I'm not. It might be co-incidence, or it might be that slugs are territorial and I have killed off all the ones in my territory and the outsiders aren't coming in.

Who knows, but it amuses me to think that there are slug-size signs around the periphery saying kill zone, do not enter or you will dieeeee!

See, you can win against the gastropods, if you're bliddy-minded enough.Have decided I must fell the humungous (6.5-7 ft tall) 2015 feral chards, or at least the two biggest, one white and one ruby variety. Ain't nodoby needs that much chard seed dropped in their soil, although I have seen small finches of some kind (little brown jobs, I believe is the correct term) scoffing them. Hey ho, they can have them until tomorrow.

Plus I need to sow some stuff in the space they're taking up.....

MrsLW, your cooking sounds yummy and very efficient use of resources, I reckon. Lots of nutrition and almost no waste. Of course, as a dilligent gardener, you will be saving the bone, drying it out carefully and grinding it down for bonemeal to add to the soil, yes?:rotfl:

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Naturalment mon ami!

The only bit of the gammon hock that I shan't use is the skin and fat and that will be diced when it's cool enough and put into the garden for the birds, we have lots of jackdaws and a few crows and magpies who just love a bit of fatty rind!

ivyleaf

ivyleaf wrote: »

Those should do my prolapse good :eek:

Just wanted to say, this was very flippant of me! Kittie's suggested exercises are indeed very good for building bone density. Just, I wouldn't dare do it myself I hope you weren't offended, kittie. I was just being a smartyarris.

ETA OH is cutting the grass as fast as he can manage, in hope of finishing most of it before it starts raining again. Which, oh beggarit, it just has. While the sun continues to shine!

machasraven

maryb wrote: »

Has anyone here got the Dairy book of cookery (?name)? I've seen it referred to a lot and wondered if it was good for the sort of cooking we have been talking about.

I have the Dairy book of home cookery by Sonia Allison. Another I like is the farmhouse cookbook.

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We all seem to have the same cookery books I've got the Dairy Cook Book too! A very useful one that I've had since it was first published is Cooking on a Shoestring by Gail Duff very useful in that it only uses cheaper cuts of meat and fish and she has inventive ways of ringing the changes with flavours.

Cappella

I have Gail Duffs Cooking on a Shoestring too, and the Dairy Book of Home Cookery. I also have Marguerite Pattens 'Everyday Cook Book'. They are the books I keep returning to.
MrsLW - your ham hock sounds perfect! Good, nutritious, thrifty food. One of MrCs favourite dishes, but he likes his with pease pudding.

machasraven

Have a look at world of books its the secondhand amazon bookshop online the books are from £3 and they have tons of old cookery books once you ignore the trendy ones

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Howling winds up here, atm.

The only good side to it, is that my shirts were dry in about 20 minutes.