Around the Kitchen Table - A Lancashire Childhood
Gertrude Bark
- Price: £7.95
- Publisher: Brewin Books
- ISBN: 9781858582498
- Availability: In Stock
Born in 1896 in Leigh, Lancashire, Gertrude
Bark, known as "GB", was the only child of William and Gertrude
Smith. The recipe book her parents started in 1890 was contributed to by
family, friends and neighbours up until the end of the Second World War. In
1923 GB moved to Leamington Spa. A century after the first pages of the book
were written, GB found that each recipe conjured up a memory or story from her
past and in particular her childhood in coal-mining Lancashire, such as
Grandma's Raised Pies which she brought out at midnight on New Year's Eve as
"all the bells of heaven were bursting from the quiet town" and
Cousin Dick, who in 1916 wrote home from France anticipating "arriving
during some starshine night in Manchester all the way from the trenches and be
sure to have a chunk of your chocolate cake in your pocket for me", but
who was killed in the Battle of the Somme and never did come home.
These are the recipes and the memories they evoked.
| Details | |
| Format | Paperback |
| Pages | 96 |
| Dimensions | 210mm x 148mm |
| Illustrations | black & white |
