More from the Lincoln Cathedral Cookery Book. For Mothering Sunday.

The forty-day Lent fast used to be considered very severe soo the fourth Sunday in Lent, known as Mothering Sunday, was allowed as a "break". On this day parishioners from all the parishes in the diocese would journey to worship in the Mother Church, the Cathedral, and ( Read more... )

To keep for personal reference:

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Following the Lincoln Cathedral Cookery Book into the season of Lent not surprisingly the recipes for this section centre on fish dishes. The text given is:

Easter is preceded by a forty-day Fast, called Lent, designed to recall the sufferings of Jesus Christ in the wilderness. Although eggs, meat and fats were not allowed, fish eating was ( Read more... )

The Lincoln Cathedral Cookery book with it's recipes arranged by the church calendar has a batch of pancake recipes for Shrove Tuesday. From the book:

During the Fast of Lent Christians were not allowed to eat meat, eggs or fats so housewives used up these foods on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Lent began, by making pancakes.So the recipe that I ( Read more... )

From The Fatal Shore, by Robert Hughes ( Read more... )

Back to work for me today. And as for Lincoln Cathedral Cookery:-

The first Monday after Twelfth Night, called Plough Monday, marks the return to work. On this day ploughs used to be carried into Church to be blessed so that the New Year's work could get off to a good start.

And the accompanying recipe...

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The Lincoln Cathedral Cookery Book continues on - no recipe for this event on the calendar - but notes the revels accompanying feasting on this day...

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More from the Lincoln Cathedral Cookery Book for the Christmas season.

( On Christmas pudding )

Earlier this year my siblings and I emptied and prepared for sale our family home. It had been in our mother's family for 99 years and along with the junk and the treasure to be sorted there was a large supply of the 'this and that' type of objects that accumulate around a house ( Read more... )

I tried to post this last night for Frodo's birthday but I couldn't get the LJ formatting working for some reason ( Read more... )