Evie B - Consulting Historian - Vintage food and recipe blog

Ideally cooked in a pressure cooker. The base is pearl barley, start your stew cooking then add any vegetables you have in the house that need using ! Onions, carrots, potatoes peas leaks, anything at all!  Add stock and herbs, any think you like the joy of this recipe is that it is totally adaptable because it comes from a time when no food was wasted and what better than a vegetable stew to feed a family when you have food that needs using up and not much money in the family purse.  Are used to love this stew is a child any season , it is wonderful on a cold winters evening but it is also very satisfying during the spring when there are so many plentiful spring vegetables.  Call me astute is not complete without dumplings and I added 16 to the pressure cooker so there will be at least one dumpling for every help him freeze what you don't use. Gorgeous on the first day,  it is extra special the following day when all the flavours have had chance to matur...

Tea bread circa 1980 Vintage Tupperware mixing bowl The old family recipe book. I loved this simple bread, a bit like a large scone, as a child. Sliced and served with butter and jam. Such an easy recipe, until today when I made it I was always under the impression that it was made with tea. The tea in the title however refers to the time of its consumption! Loved being able to serve it to my children, and it does not have to be confined to tea time, it made a lovely supper for me after an evening studying local history supper time, fresh farm butter and home made raspberry jam