Most of the records we keep here at the Warwickshire County Record Office are written documents, on paper or parchment. These come in a myriad of different sizes, ages, and – ...
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the Military Conscription Act – which required all single men between the ages of 18 and 41 to sign up for military service ...
1 There was more woodland to the east of the road, where How Grove, shown on a map of 1597, presumably occupies the site of the wood called le ho ...
Medieval Wood formerly How Grove
1 The Hall garden, Bridge Street, Kenilworth.
Lovie reports informal gardens with walks and orchard.
Informal gardens with walks.
Interviews with Gordon Barton and Brian Marsh on the development of the headlights on the Sprite and Nick Maltby on the introduction of the Sprite Mark 1.
Gordon Barton worked in ...
When I was a student at Birmingham University studying chemistry, we used to cycle from Edgbaston to the Henley-in-Arden ice cream parlour. This was on a Sunday morning before our ...
In keeping with a seasonal theme, what could be better for a cold winter’s day or night than a slice of Carrot pudding from an 18th century recipe? The recipe ...
I approach this task with quite a few misgivings. I can do the silver dish (standard saucepan) and sourcing the ingredients is fine; I have apples on the tree in ...
My heritage recipe challenge was to tackle this delightful invention found in the Wise family records.1 The 18th century writing is clear and the instructions quite simple and not too daunting. ...
This is the second in the series of the Heritage Cooking Challenge and this month it is fudge!
Weights and measures
The recipe for chocolate fruit fudge in the Hemming Family of Henley in ...
When looking for a recipe to try for this project, I gazed wistfully over the choices, bemoaned the fact cheesecakes had already been taken (I do like a good cheesecake, ...
So we got to the stage of making the pie…
As you may recall, one of the major challenges was hunting for the artichokes in the first place! Tinned seemed a ...
This recipe, which was kindly chosen for me, is from a recipe book in the Eleanor Archer collection1. Although the book itself is believed to have belonged to her mother, ...
WARNING: Please do not attempt this recipe at home, it comes with a risk of some very nasty (and potentially fatal) bugs – especially if you follow the original recipe’s ...
So the first problem was actually reading the recipe…
Having overcome that, the next problem was overcoming the language. A chance conversation saved me doing something overly stupid, maybe. I wondered ...
This month’s recipe is a collective effort. To mark Shrove Tuesday, we decided to do a Batter Pudding – a recipe to be found in an enigmatically entitled archive, Eathorpe ...
I signed up for the heritage cooking challenge as I like cooking, and I thought I’d be able to give it a decent attempt…
Looking through the list, I thought I would ...
This recipe – probably dating to sometime in the 1920s – comes from a Warwickshire County Record Office document (reference CR4694/63) which is a notebook of recipes, homemade medicines, and knitting ...
Method
Though it felt a bit odd, I followed the recipe to the letter and added the water (cold), margarine and sugar and heated it over a low heat. This was ...
It isn’t Christmas without a mince pie and once upon a time it wouldn’t have been a mince pie without the addition of actual minced meat. When the Warwickshire County ...
Having made a name for ourselves with the pickled pigeon, my partner and I decided to try our hand at historic sausage-making. This is an early 18th century recipe for ...
It’s what you’ve all been waiting for! The results of the pickled-pigeon extravaganza, for your delectation and delight. I was challenged by my colleagues to attempt one of the grimmer-sounding recipes ...
This recipe is part of a collection held at Warwickshire County Record Office, and is a notebook of recipes, homemade medicines and knitting patterns1. It also includes a recipe on ...
As the autumn season continues, and the air feels a bit fresher, it seems an apt time to introduce the fourth recipe in our Heritage Cooking Challenge. Taken from an early ...
I’d like to say it was a dark, stormy night, as all good stories begin… In actual fact it was a sunny Saturday afternoon in August.
According to reliable websites, the Globe ...
