January 20th 2008 ' Sara, can you find the recipe for Igloo Pudding in here for me? I think it's under July'. Well it would be under July, because my mother's recipe book is an office diary that my father gave her in 1963, the kind that has one page per day - plenty of room for writing recipes, -... Sign in to see full entry.
memoirs in the kitchen
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For more than 50 years my mother (in sound health and memory at 83) has kept a kitchen journal of recipes inherited from her 2 grandmothers (born Winchester UK 1880,and Portsmouth UK 1873) or passed on by her many friends at different periods of her life. Her own culinary background is European Jewish(Grandma Jinny Phillips)and traditional English (Grandma Mary-Anne Offer) but as she has lived in Ireland, London and Tel Aviv she has picked up friends and recipes from countries as diverse as China, India, Pakistan, Hungary, South Africa, Ghana, Iran and of course, Ireland, scene of my own childhood. This is a tribute to my mother and the women in her life, family and friends - and cooking is only the half of it...