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Cooking with Gran
I can see my gran, as if it were yesterday. There she is in her best flowery piny (apron as its known today) in full cookery mode in her small but loving farmhouse kitchen. Big cooking pots on the agar, a roaring fire in the open fire place where a kettle hung. Strings of onions hung for drying in the corner. Rows of big plates and dishes displayed upon her dresser. The kettle was always on, ready to mash in an instance if a visitor came along with freshly baked scones too. There would always be that baking smell wafting throughout the kitchen, which filtered throughout the entire house. You could smell my Grans cooking as you walked up the long drive, your mouth would be watering at the thought of what was on offer as soon as you entered the back door. I can remember as a little girl how big that old kitchen farmhouse table was and that I had to stand on tip toe to see what was going on upon the table itself. Gran would grab a stool and placing me on top she would go about wrapping me up in one of her enormous pinnies, so I looked the part, of course! Then she would place me right in the centre of the action. Within moments I would have my hands in a bowl of mixture, have a rolling pin given to me, be peeling vegetables or be simply putting meat through the mincer (do you remember those hand held mincers?). It was a true home cooks kitchen. Fresh vegetables adorned the vegetable basket still intack with the fresh dirt on them, where we had picked or dug them up. Fresh bread was always in the oven or on the bread board. The pantry was full of endless preserves of all vegetables, fruits, jams, pickles, all lovingly hand prepared by Gran so we could enjoy seasonal offerings throughout the year. I use to love doing the paper tops and creating the labels for her to dress the jars. Of course game hung in the pantry the odd rabbit, pheasant even goose was always in there. A tin bowl of fresh eggs was always on the side, some of them were still warm. My Gran taught me how to cook, she made it fun. We had countless sessions at the agar. She taught me about seasonal produce, how to shop, how to preserve and budget for the household. How to grow my own vegetables and what to look for in good produce. I have in turn passed this knowledge on to my children. We are home cooks who prepare wholesome meals for a family no matter what their age or size. I hope my children will pass on this knowledge again to their children for there is many a magic moment made in the process. This like kitchenmonkey.co.uk is what a true food lover would try to promote, but we are busy today and do not always have the time to do everything, but at least with our kitchenmonkey.co.uk’s meals you could spent the time baking and creating memories while still enjoying the home cooked value of our range just as my gran made for me.
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Contributor's Note
I really feel that the skills I was taught by my gran have been lost today and areno longer taught in schools, we need to get back to teaching cookery, which I know they are introducing again but what about home economics teahing our children to budget, recycle and grown their own vegetables etc for instance! In todays climate of food shortages and credit crunch our children need these skills to survive
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