Mrs Dorothy Barnes. “Dot”, born in 1894, was the wife of a Lincolnshire shepherd and before her marriage worked as a professional cook. Among her leavings was a tiny, oilskin-covered notebook oilskin-covered notebook on whose pages, in equally tiny handwriting, the tricks of a culinary trade practised for more than half a century were painstaking laid out.
21 June 2018, The Tablet
A taste of family history through grandmother's recipes
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