Old cookery books are a joy.
I’m lucky enough to have ended up with a few editions of a book called Farmhouse Fare, which was first published in 1940 and reprinted many times over the decades that followed.
It was originally brought out by Farmers Weekly – the recipes supplied by farmers’ wives - these were the days when men rarely went into the kitchen (some still don’t enough, a lot of you might say!)
It shows how much our eating habits and tastes have changed. I can’t, for example, imagine too many people rushing to make "pig’s head pudding" or "‘braised sheep’s tongue" these days.
It’s a rare treat, flicking through copies of this book – so I’d like to share a few with you. I’m going to start running a recipe every Saturday on Field Day, beginning this weekend.
Some, hopefully, will be ones that you might like to try; others will simply be of curiosity value.
Just to get your taste buds working: this Saturday's will be a chutney, a relish and a sauce.
Comments (4)
Oh I've got an old paperback copy of this, it's brilliant, I keep it in my bedtime reading book pile. Every recipe for brawn you can imagine!
Posted by PG | September 26, 2007 5:42 PM
Posted on September 26, 2007 17:42
Hi PG,
Welcome to my blog, thanks for visiting.
Yes, lost of brawn. Not sure about the calf's head pie though!
Tim
Posted by tim relf | September 26, 2007 5:50 PM
Posted on September 26, 2007 17:50
Have you seen a copy of WMW Fowler's Countryman's Cooking? It is a hilariously chauvinistic cookbook written in 1965, and republished last year.
Posted by Mopsa | September 26, 2007 5:53 PM
Posted on September 26, 2007 17:53
I haven't seen a copy, Mopsa, but I did read about it in one of the papers a while back. Looks hilarious.
If you didn't see it, you can read the article here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/main.jhtml?xml=/portal/2007/02/17/ftcountryman.xml&page=2
Tim
Posted by tim relf | September 26, 2007 6:07 PM
Posted on September 26, 2007 18:07