My Homeplace Inheritance
Recipes for Life from My Irish Country Childhood
Published on 17. November 2020
99 pages
978-1-78073-268-8 (ISBN)
Description
Susan Farrell's evocative account of what it was like to grow up in rural Armagh and Tyrone, a world rooted in tradition and in the seasons.
Beginning with her grandparents, Susan uses food to trace the legacy of her upbringing: Nanny Wylie, 'quick as a magician', making bread; her aunts cycling twenty miles to the Irish border to buy butter, dried fruit and sugar for her parents' wedding cake; food remedies and broths; and the endless supply of home-made apple pies, jam and soda farls.
But by the late sixties this way of life is changing - Camp Coffee, salad cream and books like Madhur Jaffrey's 'Eastern Vegetarian Cooking' herald a new way of life and a new kind of cooking. And on the horizon is the shadow of the Troubles ...
Warm, authentic and often funny, 'My Homeplace Inheritance' is a vivid evocation of place and a celebration of the rich legacy that comes from the cooking and sharing of food.
Beginning with her grandparents, Susan uses food to trace the legacy of her upbringing: Nanny Wylie, 'quick as a magician', making bread; her aunts cycling twenty miles to the Irish border to buy butter, dried fruit and sugar for her parents' wedding cake; food remedies and broths; and the endless supply of home-made apple pies, jam and soda farls.
But by the late sixties this way of life is changing - Camp Coffee, salad cream and books like Madhur Jaffrey's 'Eastern Vegetarian Cooking' herald a new way of life and a new kind of cooking. And on the horizon is the shadow of the Troubles ...
Warm, authentic and often funny, 'My Homeplace Inheritance' is a vivid evocation of place and a celebration of the rich legacy that comes from the cooking and sharing of food.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cork
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Colourpoint Creative Ltd
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
0,97 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78073-268-8 (9781780732688)
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11/2020
Blackstaff Press Ltd
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Person
Susan Farrell was born and brought up in Portadown, County Armagh. Much of her childhood was spent living beside the River Blackwater and she currently lives in Rostrevor in County Down. She ran the Rainbow Cafe as a vegetarian enterprise at a time when the only place to get pumpkin seeds in Belfast was at the pet shop. My Homeplace Inheritance is her first book.
Content
- Intro
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Our Kitchen
- 2. The Smallholding Family
- 3. The Homeplace Kitchens
- 4. 3lb Butter and a Packet of Lard
- 5. Cake Sundays
- 6. Beef Tea
- 7. High Days and Holy Days
- 8. School Holidays
- 9. Domestic Science
- 10. Flower Power and An Invitation to Indian Cooking
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
