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Oh dear jaw breaking home made toffee and boiled away cabbage -I can relate to all that.
My Grandmother did all her cooking on the coal range by the fireside so there was always bread being baked and maybe a pan of stew on the trivet with a pot of boiling water on the other side one for tea.
The stew never seemed to get any less no matter how much it was eaten. I think she just used to throw stuff in to top it up all the time.
It had a wonderful hungry smell.
That oven was used for all sorts -hotpots with the crust-soused herring-apple pies-occasionally they had a few blackened edges though.
I don't remember her using any other stove at all.
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My mother worked in't mill until later when my parents bought a small grocers shop, consequently grandma (who lived with us ) did the cooking . I recall that we had a coal range with an oven built into it , there was always something cooking, grandmother seemed to spend most of the day preparing the evening dinner. One favourite was moss cake ,two layers of cake with jam between ,sometimes apple, scones , and bread, the doe having been allowed to rise in a large cloth covered bowl in front of the fire, which incidentally was the prime source for heating the house. We had also an electric stove/cooker ( a Ritemp), but I don't recall it being used , however we always had two electric kettles, one for boiling water, the other for boiling eggs !.
Later, after bought out bread became acceptable, one of my chores was to walk to a shop in plungington (half hour each way) to obtain it daily, seems that soups and such were always home made ,bought out being frowned upon. Treacle toffee was made on occasion, we often too it with us into our Anderton air raid shelter (which was burried in the ground) it supplimented the rationed barley sugars , had another stove in the air raid shelter and used it for boiling water for tea and baking jacket potatoes .
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My mum is OK with the main course, but never had time for much baking. Grandma, on the other hand, baked at least three times a week. I still miss her apple dumpling, which was to die for. No matter how closely I follow her recipe, I cannot match it. And there was always a tin of home-made scones in her pantry....
(I have to stop there, it's 6pm and I'm making my mouth water too much!)
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I suppose its either laziness or the convenience of store bought confectionery these days. I baked biscuits, cakes regularly when my 4 starving kids came home, ravenous from school,but then the baking was gone in minutes. So over the years I bought from the supermarket. Not as good obviously- but convenient food. I have relinquished my sweet tooth in old age... thank goodness for my waistline. Sandy
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