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Post by Patrick on May 25, 2009 16:48:09 GMT
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Post by housesparrow on May 25, 2009 19:37:55 GMT
Marguerite Patten was my hero. I still have some of her books and she knocks any of the modern cookery writers into a cocked hat.
Simple recipes, simple ingredients, easily understood, no fancy layouts or pictures or things you will buy and use only once.
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Post by Patrick on May 25, 2009 21:12:35 GMT
Marguerite Patten was my hero. I still have some of her books and she knocks any of the modern cookery writers into a cocked hat. Simple recipes, simple ingredients, easily understood, no fancy layouts or pictures or things you will buy and use only once. Mine too. A ridiculous reason though. My Mum gave me one of MP's books - from her (Mum's) collection just before she "Left Home". Pointing out that it had everything I needed to know in it!  I can't understand why she wasn't made a "Dame" rather than just an OBE. I think Jane Garvey was a little in awe of her. She didn't sound like she was much of a cook herself! |
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Post by everso on May 25, 2009 21:48:54 GMT
Marguerite Patten was my hero. I still have some of her books and she knocks any of the modern cookery writers into a cocked hat. Simple recipes, simple ingredients, easily understood, no fancy layouts or pictures or things you will buy and use only once. Mine too. A ridiculous reason though. My Mum gave me one of MP's books - from her (Mum's) collection just before she "Left Home". Pointing out that it had everything I needed to know in it! I can't understand why she wasn't made a "Dame" rather than just an OBE. I think Jane Garvey was a little in awe of her. She didn't sound like she was much of a cook herself! I was listening to this while making a raspberry and almond tart for afters today. It was a recipe I found in a Somerfield give-away magazine and the tart turned out to be extremely ordinary. I should have stuck to my MP cookbook! |
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Post by trubble on May 26, 2009 0:18:37 GMT
Mine too. A ridiculous reason though. My Mum gave me one of MP's books - from her (Mum's) collection just before she "Left Home". Pointing out that it had everything I needed to know in it! I can't understand why she wasn't made a "Dame" rather than just an OBE. I think Jane Garvey was a little in awe of her. She didn't sound like she was much of a cook herself! I was listening to this while making a raspberry and almond tart for afters today. It was a recipe I found in a Somerfield give-away magazine and the tart turned out to be extremely ordinary. I should have stuck to my MP cookbook! Free Leaflets are often so disappointing. I don't know this MP you talk of. I am a Delia Fan. Delia rules. Also Theodora Fitzgibbon, the Irish Fanny Craddock I guess, a contemporary anyway. Did I tell you I have the Craddocks' autograph? Both of them. One of my prized possessions. |
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Post by Flatypus on May 26, 2009 1:33:56 GMT
I was lying in bed listening to that. I particularly woke up when she damned the demise of Home Economics because that might teach kids they could do it for themselves instead of relying on somebody to sell it for ten times the cost. I bet she'd be only too delighted for men to be just as capable of looking after themselves. Sadly, it is her independence that had to be put down as a threat to commercial control instead of her threat of independence weakening commercial control.
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Post by Patrick on May 26, 2009 9:29:20 GMT
Free Leaflets are often so disappointing. I don't know this MP you talk of. I am a Delia Fan. Delia rules. Also Theodora Fitzgibbon, the Irish Fanny Craddock I guess, a contemporary anyway. Did I tell you I have the Craddocks' autograph? Both of them. One of my prized possessions. Kudos to the Craddock signature holders!  Being so young, I assume you inherited them?  If it wasn't for deares Marguerite - There would be no Delia!  Oh, and Theodora deserves a Dame-hood for her name alone! |
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Post by trubble on May 26, 2009 15:31:34 GMT
They were collected for me at a young age but for me nonetheless, Fanny knew it was to Trubble that she was writing. I imagine she was honoured. I also have a John Cleese autograph written 'To Trubble from John Cleese' although he spelled Trubble differently. But it's that they were to me that makes them so special.
I lost my Dana one when my sister tore it up during a fight. At the time I considered it a low blow but when you consider that she might have chosen the Man U 1977 team one, well...
I don't ask people for autographs though. I broke my rule with Nicholas Parsons and I made him sign something for my mother but Parsons is just one of those overpowering types of men who make you break your own rules!
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Post by Flatypus on May 27, 2009 2:37:21 GMT
What was MP's ersatz banana that had her interlocutor in bits? We have museums full of this wartime stuff that England never had: roast Parsnip 'coffee', carrot cake which is not trendy but was very ersatz in the 1940s and the like, but very strangely few returns to lost edible weeds like dandelion or various seaweeds, though they did eat limpets and against all advice boil potatoes up to make potato flour for cakes. By weight, potato flour is the 10:1 or less result of boiling potatoes to death and then boiling the mucky water off. Gods only know why they did it when they were so good with other things like the awful limpets, even growing tobacco instead of importing it. I'd love to know whether any that got wild is still there.
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Post by Patrick on May 27, 2009 11:32:41 GMT
They'd probably arrest you for trying to grow your own tobacco today!  |
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