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Picking Fruit in Sussex – July 1924
They are telling me that there will be no Household column this week if I do as many boilings of fruit as I am planning for to-day and to-morrow. It is extraordinary how we all ignore the lessons of experience … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Farming
Tagged blackcurrants, canes, Cumbria, farming history, haymaking, jam making, jams, jellies and jams, raspberries, soft fruit, Sussex
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A Morning of Interruptions – August 1917
It was an intensely hot morning, and I was grating suet and preparing vegetables on a stone sconce out of doors. The bleating of sheep, and the soft scurrying of their woolly forms, just beyond the burn, reminded me that … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, Ducks, Farming, Hens, House, Servants
Tagged farming history, maggots, sheep shears
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