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In a previous post I reported that Mrs MacFarlane’s 1926 weekly menu in Home & Country saw oatmeal porridge as the prescribed breakfast for six days a week. Fish cakes, it seems, were the alter...

https://homecookedheritage.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/12-fish-cakes-1926/

Well readers it’s that moment we’ve all been waiting for – the first jam – but wait, it’s not jam, it’s jelly. What’s the difference? I’m glad you’re as nonplussed as I was. Acc...

https://homecookedheritage.wordpress.com/2015/10/21/11-apple-and-rosemary-jelly-1930/

A few Sundays ago we had some lovely friends around for lunch and I whipped up Apple Amber – an apple-based baked tart with a lovely meringue top. Although I was tempted to call it the thirties...

https://homecookedheritage.wordpress.com/2015/09/17/10-apple-amber-1932/

Well readers it’s 1926 and we’re into the second decade of the WI. In February of this year, Home & Country launched a new feature in which Margaret MacFarlane set out the steps the housewife...

https://homecookedheritage.wordpress.com/2015/08/12/09-oatmeal-porridge/

I have a confession. When I came up with this idea – and, indeed, wrote my first blog post – I didn’t actually have a physical copy of The WI Cookbook: The First 100 Years. So, it hadn’t ...

https://homecookedheritage.wordpress.com/2015/08/06/seasonal-joker-2015/

*with apologies to all Scots. ‘Stoved Potatoes (a Scotch Recipe)’ appeared in Home & Country in 1919 – some two years after the formation of the separate Scottish WI, the Scottish Women’s...

https://homecookedheritage.wordpress.com/2015/08/06/08-stovies-1919/

Last night I took advantage of HB’s absence to cook something I knew his delicate palate couldn’t possibly tolerate – the ominously named Vegetarian Pudding. From the ingredients, which inv...

https://homecookedheritage.wordpress.com/2015/05/28/07-vegetarian-pudding-1920/

Last night, amidst the intermittent bursts of lashing rain and howling wind (a GCSE English-worthy performance of pathetic fallacy) I settled down to celebrate today’s General Election by makin...

https://homecookedheritage.wordpress.com/2015/05/07/06-economy-cake-1921/

Bring me my bow of burning gold! Bring me my shortbread of desire. Yes readers it is Christmas 1923 and while leafing through the December issue of Home & Country, we stumble upon the debate over...

https://homecookedheritage.wordpress.com/2015/04/23/05-shortbread-1923/

Kedgeree. On the one hand, a great way of using up leftover cooked fish, and a nostalgic Anglo-Indian souvenir from the old Victorian colonials. On the other: a breakfast suggestion that really d...

https://homecookedheritage.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/04-kedgeree-1920/