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Hard_Up_Hester

https://shirleygoode.blogspot.com

Nargleblast

Now I have a hankering to start reading Shirley's blog. I love reading stuff that follows the seasons.

ivyleaf

Hard_Up_Hester said:

Ivy I hadn't thought of it either, but I'm not sure I need any more calories!

Ssh, nor do I   

annieb64

I got rid of my Home and Freezer Digests too but still have a very tatty copy of their book of apple recipes. It gets used every year when we have a glut of apples. 
Another nice apple recipe which isn't in the book but was published in the magazine was for an autumn apple slice. I think the recipe was from Evelyn Rose and it's two layers of a rich pastry with sliced apples and raisins in the middle.

Florenceem

I am looking forward to receiving my Shirley Goode book.
I do have some WW2 cook books - must hunt them out.
On the computer as my back is complaining after cleaning the downstairs cloakroom.

pollyanna_26

annieb64 said:

I got rid of my Home and Freezer Digests too but still have a very tatty copy of their book of apple recipes. It gets used every year when we have a glut of apples. 
Another nice apple recipe which isn't in the book but was published in the magazine was for an autumn apple slice. I think the recipe was from Evelyn Rose and it's two layers of a rich pastry with sliced apples and raisins in the middle.

Did the apple recipe book have an apple flan on the cover annie? I'm pretty sure I had that and a few others in the collection.

When I was growing up my mum had an obsession with currants. don't know if they were cheaper or.easier to obtain.

I didn't like them but she often made a pie in a large shallow roasting tin, she was often feeding half the neighbourhood as well  as us. She would line the tin with pastry then add loads of currants and sugar and top it with pastry. I never worked out where she got so much dried fruit and sugar in the mid 50s. My dad worked for a few years post war at Burtonwood Airbase and those far from home aircrew often visited on Sundays or Holidays by invitation.

They were told to look after the locals who'd suffered rationing while they were well fed. I saw my first heinz beans,frozen fish fingers and many other wonders thanks to them.

My mum was a very good cook and baker and our guests loved her sugary currant pie. I didn't, that pie, margarine and fish and meat pastes were the no go areas of my  life. I would find a bar of chocolate offered for my pie which I thought an excellent exchange.

Mum always made lovely Christmas cakes and bunloaves and would leave the currants out. She baked that sugary pie for each boyfriend that visited and they all loved it. I've never used currants I love sultana's so my christmas cakes are different I do my own mix. The only thing I do like is Eccles Cakes which have to be a certain brand. I've tried making them myself but not the same.

I noticed my Sainsbury's hardback cookbooks on a shelf.Does any one remember them? Could buy them in the shop in the 80s. I've still got Wholefood Cooking. Home Baking and Teatime Favourites. I collected them all but have passed most to family, friends or charity. I always wanted to own a library or a bookshop and with the other books I own I think I've got one or both.

pollyx

MingVase

I've never been able to eat currants, too much like dead flies for me. I use sultanas instead.

annieb64

Yes the apple book did have a picture of an apple flan on the cover, pollyanna. I think it was the flan that contained grated marzipan. I had a massive cull of my cookery books when we packed up our house but did keep the apple book along with the Shirley Goode book, Cooking More with Less and the Paupers Cookbook and several others. I decided that as most of the current television  cooks put their recipes online I could send their books to the charity shop. As I kept saying to DH we can't take everything with us although I suspect he has kept more than I have!

Floss

@pollyanna_26 when we moved to Warrington in 1975, we lived about 10 minutes walk from the main gate of Burtonwood base! We used to go to mass in the Chapel every Saturday evening, my boys went to Scout camp there and as a teen I used to go bowling in the housing camp (the "tobacco houses") at the back of our estate.

Florenceem

Need to make some Birthday cards.
Going to chat tomorrow about another craft fayre at the SA - this time - renting out tables to outside crafters. We will have a couple of tables and do food to make extra money.