Time warp cookery

mah_jong

I have been given some old cookery books .

They are an insight...how many of you remember chicken maryland?...chicken supreme? Those were from a book published in 1963.

Another one gives all sorts of help with tims and frozen foods! can you still get chicken in jars this seems to be a fave with several recipes using it!

Will wait and savour the opening of an ancient copy of Mrs Beaton !!! No doubt full of tripe and trotters, brawn and other horrid stuff !!

Hunnymonster

mah_jong wrote:

can you still get chicken in jars this seems to be a fave with several recipes using it!

You can certainly get tinned cured chicken - expensive - about £1 for a 'little' tin - but I always have a tin in the cupboard for a snack emergency.

Pink.

I have an old copy of Mrs Beaton. It was my mum's and is almost as old as I am, but much of it is as relative today as it was then.

Pink

arkonite_babe

I have a Mrs Beeton cookery book and another old book of home management (Not Mrs B, but in a similar vein) I have them packed away as my insurance policies for later years along with 2 limited 1st edition Harry Potter books which are no longer in print.

The Mrs B book is so fragile, I'm scared to touch, but I think I will nick my Mum's version and have a good look through it.

ladygrey_2

never heard of chicken in jars

and tinned chicken never tastes quite right to me

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mah_jong wrote:

I Another one gives all sorts of help with tims and frozen foods! can you still get chicken in jars this seems to be a fave with several recipes using it!

Will wait and savour the opening of an ancient copy of Mrs Beaton !!! No doubt full of tripe and trotters, brawn and other horrid stuff !!

I have just unearthed my first cookery book bought when I got married in 1963.It was called 500 recipes for Budget Meals and cost me 2/6 (12 1/2 p), written by a lady called Catherine Kirkpatrick.I was into saving money then as well. It was my bible for ages as I was such a rotten cook I had to learn from scratch.
I once actually exploded boiled eggs on the gas cooker .My poor husband never let me live it down.
He loved trotters but I couldn't bring myself to cook them.His Mum was the original old wife that all the tales were about, and thought I was a very flighty piece with my mini skirts and knee high white boots. Luckily he survived my cooking and I did learn how to feed the poor bloke. he also liked brawn, and I drew the line at boiling a pigs head as well. I was a city girl from London and he was a country boy from the Isle of Wight.
Somewhere amongst my books I have a 1935 copy of a W.I cookery book that my Ma-in-law gave me it had all sorts of recipes about jugged hare and rabbit pies.Not my cup of tea at all. He also liked whitebait which I thought was revolting, and tripe cooked in milk ugh

krishna

Another great old book with sensible and economical recipes is Farmhouse Fare, published by Hamlyn. Originally published in the 1940s, it is a collection of recipes from farmers' wives first published in Farmers Weekly. Many of the recipes took into account reduced availability of some items (e.g. eggs) during WW2. Covers sweet stuff and savory stuff and has a chapter on medicinals and household cleaning items, etc. I acquired it from my mother when she replaced hers with a new copy after we discovered that it was still in print (in the 1980s). It had been updated in the 1970s, though I never found any of the new recipes particularly great. Just checked and it doesn't seem to be in print any more, though there are lots of copies available cheaply on e.g Amazon.

lindadykes

I remember the chicken in jars, funilly enough DH and I were talking about it just the other day! it also came in tins and usually was a staple in the hampers people bought for christmas. It was nothing like the cured chicken breast you get nowadays, but was a whole chicken intact but a bit deformed from being squished into the jar/tin and was surrounded in a sort of jellied stock - it was actually ok. Never seen it for years though.

kittiwoz

There was a piece in the local paper about a Manchester couple who celebrated their golden wedding aniversary by tucking into a canned chicken they had recieved in a congratulatory hamper on the ocassion of their wedding 50 years before.Here's the MEN story

hermit-crab

M&S chicken in a can is lovely, but relatively expensive. On the other hand if you are only cooking for yourself, it can be cost effective. Much cheaper than cooking a chicken when one takes into account the cost of the chicken and the energy required to cook it

I was not fortunate enough to celebrate a golden wedding, but I am sure I would have treated my dearest wife with something better than canned chicken. I suspect the can would have been embedded in some sensitive part of my body, had I even thought of it. :eek:

moggins

LOL, I exploded boiled eggs on a regular basis until I got my kitchen timer. I would get engrossed on the computer and completely forget about them

I remember the chicken in a can too, Debenhams had a food hall and I often saw them there, never bought one though