Ah, but if I hide it from him I still know where it is, and if he hides it from me then he still knows where it is ... and I doubt whether entrusting it to a neighbour for safe keeping is a good idea ... 🤣
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
OH just likes cake and will eat it straight away whereas I know, having spent formative years in Lancashire, that Parkin needs to mature and I can wait.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I still have my mum's 'Good Housekeeping' recipe book. It must be from the late 50's or early 60's. I'll have to check it for a date. Mum always used to make mince pies for us even after I married. Neither my wife or I have the heart to make them for ourselves. We know they just wouldn't be the same.
My paternal grandmother was a cook in a London townhouse before she married (sadly I never knew her). My mother told me that she had her hand written cookbook but that most of the recipes lacked enough detail to work properly & were obviously just prompts for her. She mentioned one that was called 6 cup pudding it simply said one cup of everything! My Mum was a good cook in her own right but she said his mums book was unusable I recall she had a very battered copy of the good housekeeping book I think my sister has it.
Can I just say that letting cakes mature is frought with danger, a stray child may eat it, a clumsy husband may knock over it like some bake off tragedy and worse still it maybe forgotten about and go mouldy. No play safe eat immediately as though your life depends on it 😜😜
I think a few people here might find this interesting: https://lostcookbook.wordpress.com/ If you'd like to read the blog in order, scroll down the the Archive posts.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
@wilderbeast - it is a well known fact that stews and casseroles taste better the day after they are made. Wines, cheeses, some spirits and even beers need time to mature as do things like sloe gin. Why would you not wait for a Parkin or a Christmas cake or a banana cake to mature and be at its best?
Chocolate, on the other hand, does need to be saved form the predations of everyone in this house.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
We're a cake-free house here but had an amusing cake-related incident at the weekend. We were on a video call to my daughter and 4 year old grandson when their doorbell rang. "Oh, that'll be the Ocado delivery." my daughter said. Grandson looked very excited - "Now there'll be cake for tea!". "Oh no there won't!" she replied. "Just because you've asked Alexa to add cake to the shopping list doesn't mean it'll be in the shopping. Do you think I don't check?". To his credit, grandson saw the funny side elbeit being disappointed.
My 'bible' is my mum's copy of 'the Complete Book of Home Food Preservation', By Cyril Grange. It was first published in I947, when she was married, with a second edition the following year and the third in 1949, so it is older than me. It was in use again this week, as I've been making loads of Japonica jelly from my Chaenomeles fruit
I use her recipes too, which I have had scribbled in a notebook since my first married Christmas. She was an adventurous cook for her time and we had things like lasagne and moussaka regularly, long before they became commonplace. She made her own apple strudel too, pastry included, and that's on the list for this Christmas as well. My daughter was aghast when I mentioned the possibility of using bought filo! I shall have to cut my finger nails
Strangely, I find I miss my dad more than my mum in many ways, which was unexpected, but I think it is because my mum has somehow become part of me through so much of our lives being shared in this way
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My Mum was a good cook in her own right but she said his mums book was unusable I recall she had a very battered copy of the good housekeeping book I think my sister has it.
https://lostcookbook.wordpress.com/
If you'd like to read the blog in order, scroll down the the Archive posts.
Chocolate, on the other hand, does need to be saved form the predations of everyone in this house.