Recipes from an Old Farmhouse by Alison Uttley (Hardcover)

 Recipes from an Old Farmhouse by Alison Uttley (Hardcover)

"These recipes are combined with many fascinating details and memories from the author’s childhood in Derbyshire, when Thor Cake was eaten on Guy Fawkes night and in the springtime the children helped to gather cowslips for Cowslip Wine. They include descriptions of homemade jam and delicious home baking of possets for winter and harvest drinks for the summer – and of happy afternoons spent stirring toffee over the kitchen fire.

Nowadays some old farmhouse recipes with their lavish, often hit-or-miss quantities and quaint instructions are valued as curiosities rather than for practical purposes; others can be followed quite easily or will invite experiment. All are especially interesting when set against their true background; and Mrs Uttley’s collection will give a great deal of pleasure to all lovers of country life and tradition.