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  • Food Monday ~ Sauce for your Chips

    Do you shake a blob of tomato sauce on you chips, or eggs & bacon? I know people who cannot live without a bottle of Tomato sauce in the fridge. Have you ever thought of making it? On my journey down memory lane with this old cookery book, I found...
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  • Food Monday ~ Melon and Kiwi Fruit Salad

    Melon and Kiwi Fruit Salad Serves 6 100 g caster sugar 200 ml water 50 g fresh ginger – grated or thinly sliced 1 medium Galia melon in balls or bite-sized pieces 4 kiwi fruit – peeled and cut into wedges This recipe can be prepared in advance and chilled...
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  • Food Monday ~ Mammy’s Brown Bread

    Mammy’s bread making implements were a large baking bowl, a tablespoon, a teaspoon and a bone handled table knife for mixing the dough. We had no scales back then so it was handfuls or spoonfuls. It worked well. Brown Wheaten Bread Preheat oven...
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  • Food Monday ~ Daddy’s Bread

    No! Daddy did not cook, bake or boil the kettle. He did eat and this bread was a favourite. You might know it as: White Soda Bread Preheat oven to 180°C - 190°C 1 lb self raising flour (4 Mammy’s handfuls) Pinch salt Pinch sugar 1½ ozs butter or margarine...
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  • Food Monday ~ German Slices

    Eggs Liquid Polish Honey Milton Rashers Rum Mince Oops! That is not the list of Ingredients :roll: That was a shopping list on the back of a scrap of paper in Mammy’s handwriting, the recipe I want is on the other side! German Slices Preheat the...
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  • Potatoes and point

    Our Loose Blogging consortium includes:- Anu, Ashok, Conrad, Gaelikaa, Ginger, Grannymar, Helen, Judy, Magpie 11, Maria, & Ramana. Our topic today was chosen by Magpie 11 Potatoes and beans….. This topic takes me full circle. Let me explain. A few...

  • Food Monday ~ Coconut Custard

    Today I dip into the old recipe book that belonged to my sister. The recipe that I have chosen is in her hand and near the back of the book so I think it might be quite recent. Coconut Custard Preheat the oven to 150°C 4 eggs 3 ozs light brown sugar 8...
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  • Food Monday ~ Toffee Crisps

    In Scraps of history I was sharing recipes written by mammy and other relations on scraps of paper. Over the next few weeks I hope to dip into the collection and share a few well tried favourites. Today I begin with a regular when I was a schoolgirl....
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  • Scraps of history

    I was asking my sister if she still had her old school cookery book. In the school she attended, they wrote all their notes for Domestic Science in a large copybook. It was the later section of the book that interested me. You see the copybook was less...
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  • Food Monday ~ Nana’s Baked Rhubarb

    Nana’s Baked Rhubarb Spread 2 pounds of rhubarb, cut into ¾ to 1 inch pieces, on the bottom of a 9 x 13 inch baking dish. The quickest way to cut rhubarb is to use a scissors. Pour 1½ cups of sugar evenly over the rhubarb. Cover baking dish with...
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  • Food Monday ~ Caramel Fingers

    Caramel Fingers Preheat oven to 170°C For base: 200g Butter 100g Icing Sugar 200g Flour 100g Cornflour Pinch Salt Cream fat & sugar thoroughly until soft and light. Gradually work in the flour and cornflour and knead until smooth. Press into a floured...
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  • Food Monday ~ Gateau au Pommes

    I wonder if Elly remembers this Apple Cake? It was made by Robin, a French flat-mate who shared a house in Scotland. Gateau au Pommes Preheat the oven to 180°C Base: 3 Cooking Apples 1 egg 4 dessert-spoons granulated sugar 7 dessert-spoons Plain Flour...
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  • From Scrambled Eggs to…..

    I was a little confused yesterday and who could blame me. You see my ‘Love Birds’ celebrated their 3rd Wedding Anniversary on Wednesday and yesterday they were marking another landmark. This time it was 102. One Hundred and Two? If you add their ages...
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  • Food Monday ~ Chocolate Biscuit Cake

    Chocolate Biscuit Cake 250g dark chocolate 100g of unsalted butter 4-5 tablespoons whipping cream 1 tablespoon Golden Syrup pack of biscuits – broken into pieces 1 cup chopped walnuts 3-4 Crunchy bars* mini marshmallows** Line 9 x 5 x 2-inch metal loaf...
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  • Food Monday ~ Ginger Glazed Carrots

    Last week Rhyelysgranny had an interesting vegetable dish recipe over at Tea and Wheaten Bread that included cumin and cardamom pods. Somehow it reminded me to hunt out this one again to share with you Ginger Glazed Carrots ¾ lb Carrots ½ oz Butter 1...
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