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

loving vintage recipes I am inspired by beautiful adverts like this! the art work as well as the food! has anyone got a favourite recipe, memory or story related to vintage recipes

From my mum's cookbook . Handwritten and cut outs and clippings from magazines . An old favourite  from my childhood. Pancakes made tonight by my daughter Sophie

BAKED INDIAN PUDDINGIndian pudding is good baked. Scald a quart of milk (skimmed milk will do,) and stir in seven table spoonfuls of sifted Indian meal, a tea-spoonful of salt, a tea-cupful of molasses, and a great spoonful of ginger, or sifted cinnamon. Baked three or four hours. Indian cornmeal pudding Recipe from 1829  This recipe is from the American frugal housewife by Lydia Marie Child  I brought the Indian meal from an authentic store in southall, also known as little India   Newspaperwoman, novelist, and ardent advocate of women's rights, Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880) was recognized as one of the foremost female authors of her day. Married at 25 to a charming dreamer whose irresponsible behavior quickly depleted their meager earnings, she compiled this book (based, very likely, on personal experience) for women of less than moderate means. "Save!" "Share!" "Do not destroy!" were maxims she repeatedly stre...

welcome to my new blog where I will be trying out all kinds if vintage recipes. Hopefully you will find this fun and informative. Please feel free to add comments and send suggestions