No baking today. I fancied a Spanakopita for lunch but as we are trying to be good about our diet I am leaving the pastry out, so I suppose that we are having a spanakofrittata instead! I love the combo of Feta and Spinach and am now toying with notions of some kind of tasty …
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We all love figgy pudding
The recipe that I linked to the other day, for Vanilla-Rooibos Fig Newtons set me off a-Googling. It contained mystery ingredients, plus I had always wondered what a Fig Newton was. Turns out it’s just a plain old Fig Roll. Mystery #2 was the Chia seeds. These come from a Salvia, believe it or not …
Some more odd memories
Following my comments in this post and this one on how food was in Fifties’ Britain, I found my synapses buzzing. I thought I’d just jot down a few extra random thoughts. I am confining my memories to when I lived in Sheffield, where I was born in 1953 and stayed until November 1962. Some …
Forty Years On
The debate sparked by the post on 50s food, regarding Welfare Foods – in particular, the Orange Juice – sent me scampering off around Google. There is a fair amount of information there, not all of it is readily assimilable and much of it relies on infant memory. However, there are formal papers available that …
When Food Was Crude, Part 2
Continued from yesterday It isn’t just the food that has changed in the last 60 years. Imagine a time when advertising like this was acceptable? Again, behind the cut, ‘cos it do go on a bit. EATING IN THE UK IN THE FIFTIES (Part 2) Coconuts only appeared when the fair came to town. …and …
When Food Was Crude
1950s Crude Food Poster by Miles_Harrison Browse other Food Posters Somebody sent me a mail circular the other day (she knows who she is) – one of those humorous lists such as turned up with daily regularity back in our Usenet days. This particular one was referencing our eating habits in the 1950s. Much of …