This charming memoir-cum-cookbook, written by well-known Margaret
Wasserfall, former editor of SA Country Life and of SA Garden and
Home, tells of the influence of her redoubtable Scottish
grandmother as she grew up, not least in teaching her about food
and cooking. Here Margaret brings together a collection of timeless
recipes that have nourished and held together families over the
generations, interspersed with her own stories and anecdotes of
home life and growing up in South Africa during the 1940s and
1950s. This was a time when a 25-litre paraffin tin of crayfish
cost two shillings and sixpence, and one could make frikkadels from
them to stretch the household budget. It was a time when the
kitchen cupboard held a collection of tins filled with homemade
cakes and biscuits for the household to snack on. This period piece
is illustrated with snaps from the family album and with beautiful
photographs to illustrate her recipes. Not only will you find in
these pages the recipes that you remember from your childhood but
you will also recall a time when the way we ate and the way we
marked the passing of our days was completely different from the
supermarket culture of today.
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