Making it up

Yesterday I mentioned making Lord Woolton’s pie, working from a recipe in Wartime Cookbook that we got out of the library. Then last night when I was preparing tea (nothing exciting, chinese chicken bits from the coop with stir fry veg and rice) I noticed an elderly looking book on the bookshelf.

[For anyone relatively new to the blog I should explain that we moved into what had been Tim's dad's house around about this time last year, and it still has many of his things around, including his shelf of cookery books in the kitchen. We are gradually working our way through this stuff!]

The book is Cookery To-day and To-morrow, and it was first published in 1944. So instead of reading a book recreating recipes from the war, I found one written during the war. It also has handwritten recipes on pieces of paper slipped into it, so was obviously used by Tim’s mum at some point.

History and a little glimpse into family life all in one