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Category Archives: Recipes
Captain Beefheart mince pies
Another Explore Your Archives exclusive! For our Making History event, I made the shrub – already blogged about – and, helped by my friend Mark, some festively archival mince pies using another recipe from the Webley-Parry recipe books. Here it is again: … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Explore Your Archive, EYA2017, recipe, Webley-Parry
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Shrub – by popular demand!
I made shrub for Making History, our Explore Your Archive 2017 event last November. The brave souls who tasted it were impressed and apparently completely unharmed! We therefore present (by popular demand) a blog all about making this very alcoholic … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Explore Your Archive, EYA2017, recipe, shrub, Webley-Parry
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Cocoa and the working woman
Do you remember cocoa ? It was what we drank before drinking chocolate stole the limelight. I’ve noticed that “hot chocolate” nowadays represents that which is cosy and comforting and maybe even ‘hygge’. But I’m on a one-woman crusade to … Continue reading
Gogerddan Pudding Update
My mother and I ate the Gogerddan Christmas Pudding on Christmas Day. I steamed it for a couple of hours to make sure it was well heated through, turned it out, rushed into the garden for a fresh sprig of … Continue reading
The Gogerddan Christmas Pudding
It was with some excitement that we recently received the recipe for the Christmas Puddings served by the Pryse family at the great Cardiganshire estate house Gogerddan (now part of the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Christmas pudding, Gogerddan, Pryse, recipe
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Brown Cake
This cake comes from the Aberystwyth 1917 War Hints and Recipes . It’s an odd recipe because, although it contains no eggs (easily available in 1917 Aberystwyth, surely?), it does contain vast quantities of spices and orange peel (!) which … Continue reading
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Tagged cake, Explore Your Archive, EYA2016, household, recipe
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