Travel around Lincolnshire and the Fens through the pages of this book and discover a selection of the delicious traditional food of the area, as well as stories and fascinating facts behind the recipes. Your journey is given added flavour by the delightful historical images from The Francis Frith Collection, showing the people and places of Lincolnshire and the Fens in the past.
A Taste of Lincolnshire and the Fens includes 31 recipes, some traditional, some reflecting local products that Lincolnshire and the Fens is famous for, some linked to characters or historical personages or events, some versions adapted to suit modern tastes.
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Rediscover 31 traditional locally-inspired dishes. Some recipes are modern interpretations using some of the fine local produce that Lincolnshire and the Fens is famous for - we hope that this unique book provides you with a true taste of Lincolnshire and the Fens!
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A Taste of Lincolnshire and the Fens is peppered with topic boxes of additional snippets and information about regional dialect, words and phrases, traditional customs and local trivia, to convey a true flavour of Lincolnshire and the Fens. Read on for a just a few of the fascinating facts from the book.
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- ISBN: 1-84589-453-7
- Compiled by Julia Skinner
- Includes a voucher for a FREE mounted print!
- Printed to order and Despatched in 3-5 days
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- 96 pages, Paperback
- Size: 246mm x 189mm (10" x 7")
- Samphire - A wild plant called Marsh Samphire, or glasswort, is a delicacy found growing in salt marshes around the coast of Lincolnshire. The green fleshy tips of this succulent, bright green plant can be eaten raw or lightly cooked in salads, or hot with butter or with fish. A favourite way of preparing it is to boil the tips then simmer for 10 minutes, and then serve them with salt and plenty of vinegar. Samphire is in season from about the end of July, and should be collected by cutting it with scissors, not pulled up by the roots, so that it can grow again the next year. Samphire is often known as 'poor man's asparagus', but is also enjoyed by the rich – it was served at the royal wedding breakfast of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981.
- Eels were once so common in the fenland area of Cambridgeshire that they became a form of currency known as "booklets" or "sticks" of eels, with which land rent could be paid to the Church or State. One "stick" comprised 25 eels. The monks at Ely exchanged 4,000 eels a year for the stone to build Ely Cathedral. Ironically, a local legend says that when the monastery at Ely was re-founded as a male religious house following the rule of St Benedict, after the destruction of an earlier religious house for women by marauding Danes in AD870, the monks were unwilling to embrace the newly imposed rule of celibacy, and were punished by being turned into eels!
- In former years Grimsby had three sets of stocks, two of which stood in the Bull Ring. They were used as a punishment for drunks and vagrants, and the Bull Ring stocks could admit two people simultaneously – both men and women could be punished in this way. The stocks were abolished by 1870. The last drunkard to be punished in the stocks was one Jack Mackinder; it was a cold and snowy day, and Mrs Emerson, a baker in the Bull Ring, kindly fed him a beefsteak pie dinner. For this exercise of charity, the mayor decreed she would be prosecuted for supplying a prisoner with food, but no punishment was ever meted out.
- Tickler's Artillery - In 1879 a Mr T G Tickler of Grimsby, who had a fondness for fine jam, despaired at the quality of shop-bought jam and set about making his own in premises on Cleethorpes Road. Twenty years later, after moving to Hope Street and then Pasture Street, he followed his success with the management of his own orchards on a 230-acres estate at Bradley village on the town's outskirts. Having enjoyed success from selling large amounts of jam to the government for Boer War troops, he had similar success providing jam for First World War soldiers. Tickler's jam was doubly useful in the First World War, for once the contents of the tins were consumed, the empty tins made excellent hand grenades when they were refilled with explosives. They were known colloquially as "Tickler's Artillery".
- In 1506 the Guild of St Mary in Boston sent a deputation to Rome to try to get more privileges for their members from Pope Julius II. They were advised that the best way to get the Pope's attention was to approach him as he came back from hunting. They sang a three-man glee, and then offered him a "Jelly Junket", which was a sort of sweet pudding. They were successful, and got 500 years of pardon for those members of their guild whose subscriptions were paid up.
- Grantham Gingerbread - In the south-east of Lincolnshire, the town of Grantham is famous for a special type of gingerbread. The recipe is said to have been devised by mistake when a local baker in the 1740s was making Grantham Whetstones, a type of flat hard biscuits, and added the wrong ingredients to the mixture. Unlike other gingerbreads, the Grantham version does not contain black treacle and so is known as a "white" gingerbread. Traditionally the ginger flavour is strong, so use as much ginger as you prefer.
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