Tell me about pressure cooking or slow cooking frumenty - recipe for my next book, please. Contract signed circa 2014🙈 Listen to the Archers Lark Rise to Ambridge aired this afternoon 👏📕❤️
I found this so interesting. We had a lovely Harvest Festival in my local church, here in our little London village of Ham. We had beautiful produce from people’s allotments, as well as locally foraged blackberries in various pies. It’s fascinating to learn about the history of Harvest. Thank you.
So much in this post, Fiona! A trip down memory lane with harvest festivals (and lots I didn't know about reapers) and the flower fairies, but also lovely to read about frumenty - years ago when I was researching recipes on invalid cookery it came up a lot and I tried several sweet versions but never a savoury. Perhaps I should have a go - I like the idea of a wheaten, chickeny, herb scented potage.
Much appreciated reminder, Fiona - Harvest Festival quite passed me by in the big city this year. The streets of west London are alight with rowan berries.
Tell me about pressure cooking or slow cooking frumenty - recipe for my next book, please. Contract signed circa 2014🙈 Listen to the Archers Lark Rise to Ambridge aired this afternoon 👏📕❤️
I found this so interesting. We had a lovely Harvest Festival in my local church, here in our little London village of Ham. We had beautiful produce from people’s allotments, as well as locally foraged blackberries in various pies. It’s fascinating to learn about the history of Harvest. Thank you.
As always - a wonderful post.
Loved learning about the reapers and the corn dollies.
The reapers in particular putting me in mind of Burns:
“Then let us toast John Barleycorn,
Each man a glass in hand;
And may his great posterity
Ne'er fail in old Scotland!”
🥃
So much in this post, Fiona! A trip down memory lane with harvest festivals (and lots I didn't know about reapers) and the flower fairies, but also lovely to read about frumenty - years ago when I was researching recipes on invalid cookery it came up a lot and I tried several sweet versions but never a savoury. Perhaps I should have a go - I like the idea of a wheaten, chickeny, herb scented potage.
Much appreciated reminder, Fiona - Harvest Festival quite passed me by in the big city this year. The streets of west London are alight with rowan berries.