This is a great blog! It's so fun to read what was baked back in the day. I'm wondering, what are butter seeds? And did they really use amonia in thier baking, or is that another word for something else? The handwriting is exquisite, isn't it? Love this!
I was born in Newton Heath on 22 May 1836 and ran a shop in Miles Platting (or Newton Heath), just off the Oldham Road. I began this recipe book in 1861 when I lived at 292 Shakespeare Terrace (see first post). I married John Smith Gradwell on the 30th October, 1862 at All Saints' Church, Newton Heath and I died in 1912 (I think).
The receipes (about two hundred of them) are from the original recipe book which has been handed down through a few generations. The early recipes are just lists of ingredients but later ones are more instructive. The later ones are pages long - and there are newspaper cuttings. Handwriting and presumably authors change during the book. I have posted them in the same order as the book. It looks as though the book was written from both ends and some of the more modern recipes are in the middle.
The recipes come from two sources: Elizabeth Ridings' recipe book (dated 1860 - see first post) Bertha Caroline Wells' recipe book (dated 1898) [BCW] The scraps of newspaper were inserted into the recipe books.
Bertha Caroline Wells is my Daughter in Law (Born on 7th June 1873 in Bury, Lancashire. Died on 13th June 1930)
2 comments:
This is a great blog! It's so fun to read what was baked back in the day. I'm wondering, what are butter seeds? And did they really use amonia in thier baking, or is that another word for something else?
The handwriting is exquisite, isn't it? Love this!
This is brilliant, keep it up. They had so few ingredients back then but came up with endless baking variety...
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