Margarine for the quintessential 60s housewife
Susan Penny reflects on her childhood baking experiences My first ever sponge cake was made for a Stork margarine/ MacDougall’s flour baking competition at school. Although my rather uneven, slightly burnt offering didn’t win, it did get me a highly commended certificate, and a desire to improve my cooking skills. As a child I […]
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Editor’s Weekend Tip No 1
Susan Penny picks up some cones and a bargain With the weather forecast looking good this weekend, now might be a good time to take the kids out into the woods foraging for fir cones. Once collected, leave them somewhere warm to dry out for a few days. Then, using white acrylic paint, dab the […]
Newbie Denman tutor Joanna Heptinstall joins Mary Berry, Linda Barker and May Martin at WI HQ
You know how autumn has that tingling anticipation? New term, new school shoes, new timetable… As October approached, I was ticking off days before my first ever stint as tutor of the How to Cover a Traditional Lampshade course at the Women’s Institute’s flagship centre of education, Denman College. Denman was founded in 1948 in […]
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