During the war I was in uniform and so didn’t cook and when I came out not much to cook with.

When I came to Canada there was all this food and I didn’t know how to cook it!

To grow locally is an excellent idea as is to cook more simply.

As children we ate a lot of candy and boiled sweets.

Got sugar in cubes – for putting into tea. Asked people if they wanted one cube or two and used sugar tongs to put the cubes into the tea. Coffee sugar in a bowl, didn’t much like it. Tea was served in a silver tea pot,didn’t make as good a tea made in a brown betty.

Mother made cafe au lait by putting a silver coffee pot in one hand and a silver tea pot in the other and then pouring into a tea cup so there was equal amounts of coffee and milk. When I was in France they drank cafe au lait out of a soup bowl.

I remember once, in France, drinking cafe au lait with red wine. My stomach didn’t like it and I had a hard time sitting through a movie.

There was no refrigeration in houses but there were the larders -cold dark places with shelves to storage things, probably got it’s name from setting lard and keeping it cold.

Mother used to make tongue,cook it and put inside a tin with weights to weigh it down,when flat would slice it to eat.

I liked every kind of vegtables,I wasn’t into meats. Loved mashed potatoes with gravy. We bought locally grown vegtables and cleaned them of dirt when we got home. We bought food as needed.

When I was little I remember having bread and milk for supper;bread broken up and sugar added.

Loved Yorkshire pudding,we put it in a long tin and put in under the roase to get the drippings-it was crisp around the edges and moist in the middle and served with onion gravey after being cut into squares. We used a Yorkshire Range;it was an oven high to the left of the fireplace and it got its heat from the fireplace.

My uncle had a bakery and got the oven going during the week to bake bread. On Sunday people used his oven to cook their roasts while they were in church.