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COLLECTION OF FAMILY RECIPES AND MEMORIES
Here we will list a
few recipes that have been sent in to us for you to try. If you enjoy our
recipes, remember we have many more in our "A Hug From Mum" recipe book
which can be purchased by clicking on recipe book in the menu. All
profits from the
book are being donated to Marie Curie Cancer Care, who provide free
nursing care to cancer patients and those with other terminal illnesses in
their own homes.
Submit your recipe, click here, for possible
inclusion in our next book.
Name: John Tobin
Who's recipe is it: my mum's
Story: My Mum was proprietor of a boarding house in the 60's and was
a noted cook. the boarding house was booked solid for years as a
consequence of her culinary excellence. Everything was homemade from
the soup to the salmon, it was my job to go and fetch a 3 foot
salmon from the fishmongers every Saturday which she would gut and
wrap up in pastry with fresh dill and other herbs and cook until
perfect. In short she created masterpieces for the dinner table. As
a schoolboy I could come home and eat like a king every evening.
Despite this my favourite was one of the simplest but most
comforting meals ever, I still make it today.
Recipe: Cheese and Onion
Chop a large onion and cook in a saucepan with a knob of butter
until transparent.
Cover with milk and bring to boil, simmer for a few minutes. Add
grated cheese (cheddar, Lancashire, or any cheese really depending
on taste). No need to season if the cheese is strong. Eat straight
away with a baked potato, chips, or spoon from a bowl. Beautiful! |
Name: Avril McAteer
Who's recipe is it: My late mum, Eleanor Blacow
Story: We were poor family in 1950’s Britain. Dad had bronchitis
every winter and often was rained off the building site. We often
lived on Bosses whip round as there weren’t the benefits of today.
We had a coal fire that heated the house and water and put shillings
in the meter for gas. One two pin plug socket for the whole house.
Green Fairy soap washed us and everything else as we didn’t own a
washing machine. Winters were very cold and icicles froze from the
lavvy outlet pipe so we kept a paraffin lamp in the lav in an
attempt to stop pipes bursting and we had squares of news paper
hanging on a string for wiping bottoms on. On cold mornings when the
fire was out we would put the oven on and sit round it eating
pobbies to warm us up.
Recipe: POBBIES.
Ingredients.
Leftover stale bread. Butter or Stork margarine.
Milk
Sugar
Method-warm milk in saucepan add butter and stir add bread and let
it soften then add sugar stir then pour into bowls and eat. |
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