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Distracted from what I should be doing (month end accounts) by two recent purchases.
04/06/2026

Distracted from what I should be doing (month end accounts) by two recent purchases.

I've just finished scanning in one of several newspaper cuttings that I found in a 1907 edition of Mrs Beeton's Everyday...
04/06/2026

I've just finished scanning in one of several newspaper cuttings that I found in a 1907 edition of Mrs Beeton's Everyday Cookery. The book is in a very poor state, falling apart it was obviously well used. But inside! Lots of recipes cut form newspapers, hand written recipes on scraps of paper, note on the pages, so interesting.
So the Family Journal page, printed 1920 is scanned in and safely stored in acid free tissue paper. It is so fragile, it was very tricky unfolding it without it disintegrating into confetti. I will be trying a couple of the recipes I think and the money saving hints make interesting comparisons to today's.

02/06/2026

Since Dave and I spent a weekend with the Sealed Knot, at Deene Park I've been looking at food of the Civil War period. I've found a few recipes to try but Ipocras (Hippocras)with rosemary flowers sounds interesting. It's in an extract from The English hous-wife published 1653. However, it has to be 'to make Jumbals' and 'to make finer Jumbals' followed by 'cinamon sticks'.

Two more vintage books to add to my collection. The small geen one is from 1938, and the red one an early 1950's Mrs Bee...
02/06/2026

Two more vintage books to add to my collection. The small geen one is from 1938, and the red one an early 1950's Mrs Beeton although it looks older.

22/05/2026

So 8 Bosworth Jumbel recipes later, all different, some with lemon some not, some with spices, some not, one with spices and lemon, and one with almonds and a differing shape. all sorts of versions of the legend, and one even suggesting they are Lancastian because of the 'S' shape. I begin to think I ought not to have started looking, and just stuck with the first recipe I found.

18/05/2026

After a great weekend at Sewerby Hall with the Saville Household I'm back home, car unloaded and done, a living room full of stuff waiting to be put away in between cuppas, and the slightly damp tent is airing nicely, artistically draped in the spare room.
So tomorrow it will have to be more research on those Bosworth Jumbles, the legend is all I have so far in the way of provenance so I need to find more info from more reliable sources, and a little more research on which non-native herbs came into common usage and when, and which are now naturalised and common.

Well that's day one done, lovely morning till the wind turned and it all went a bit nippy, freezing tbh. Still the Pypes...
16/05/2026

Well that's day one done, lovely morning till the wind turned and it all went a bit nippy, freezing tbh. Still the Pypes Fawced went well, even in my littlest pan. These are pastry filled with cheese and cooked on a girdle (griddle), and I didn't burn one!

All done, just the washing up left to do. The Erbowle has come out a gorgeous deep red, the Boswoth Jumbels look good an...
14/05/2026

All done, just the washing up left to do. The Erbowle has come out a gorgeous deep red, the Boswoth Jumbels look good and I used my square multi cutter for speed to cut out some Tudor Biskitts which I know ought to be round. They'll still taste great though.

This weekend is Sewerby Hall, Bridlington with the Saville's reenactment group, so I've just finished washing all the au...
14/05/2026

This weekend is Sewerby Hall, Bridlington with the Saville's reenactment group, so I've just finished washing all the authentic stuff that has just been retrieved from storage. I just have to dry it all and leave to air before packing it. I will be making some Erbowle, bread and Bosworth Jumbels after lunch, and perhaps a few Strawberry Tartes, time permitting.

I've been baking again, a batch of Tudor Biskitts to go into the new packaging, they'll be checked weekly to see how the...
11/05/2026

I've been baking again, a batch of Tudor Biskitts to go into the new packaging, they'll be checked weekly to see how they are keeping. And a batch of Bosworth Jumbels ... legend has it the recipe was taken from Richard III's personal cook, after the battle. These are a little over done, they should be paler, but they are rather tasty. They are 'S' shaped, the biskitts are the round ones.

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