The Workhouse Cookbook

The Workhouse Cookbook PDF Author: Peter Higginbotham
Publisher: History Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780752447308
Category : Almshouses
Languages : en
Pages : 191

Book Description
This wonderfully evocative read explores every aspect of life - and diet - in the workhouse. Including a complete reprint of the 1901 Manual of Workhouse Cookery, and with more than 100 photographs, recipes, plans and dietary tables, it is a shocking, surprising and utterly unique guide to one of the most notorious establishments of the past.The dark history of the institution - scandals, riots and, on occasion, the near starvation of the inmates - is explored in depth. With sections on subjects as varied as the special diets for children, the elderly and the sick, the treatment of troublemakers, life in the Scottish and Irish equivalents, and Christmas Day in the workhouse - including how to make Christmas pudding for 300 - this book will delight cooks, epicureans and lovers of history everywhere.

Voices from the Workhouse

Voices from the Workhouse PDF Author: Peter Higginbotham
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 075247717X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334

Book Description
Voices from the Workhouse tells the real inside story of the workhouse - in the words of those who experienced the institution at first hand, either as inmates or through some other connection with the institution. Using a wide variety of sources — letters, poems, graffiti, autobiography, official reports, testimony at official inquiries, and oral history, Peter Higginbotham creates a vivid portrait of what really went on behind the doors of the workhouse — all the sights, sounds and smells of the place, and the effect it had on those whose lives it touched. Was the workhouse the cruel and inhospitable place as which it's often presented, or was there more to it than that? This book lets those who knew the place provide the answer.

Life in a Victorian Workhouse

Life in a Victorian Workhouse PDF Author: Alan Gallop
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752486977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 58

Book Description
What was it like in a Victorian Workhouse? Was the food really as bad as we imagine? Take a step back in time with Alan Gallop and ask yourself if you could have survived in such harsh conditions.

The Prison Cookbook

The Prison Cookbook PDF Author: Peter Higginbotham
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752496794
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
This copiously illustrated book takes the lid off the real story of prison food. Including the full text of an original prison cookery manual compiled at Parkhurst Prison in 1902, it examines the history of prison catering from the Middle Ages (when prisoners were expected to pay for their own board and lodging whilst inside) through the Newgate of the Victorian age and on to the present day. With sections on prison life, punishments, the food on board transportation vessels and floating prison hulks, and the work of reformers such as John Howard and Elizabeth Fry, who vastly improved the conditions of those who were put behind bars, this evocative and unique book shows the reader exactly what 'doing porridge' entailed.

Good Things in England

Good Things in England PDF Author: Florence White
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903155004
Category : Cookery, English
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
Written in 1932, this English classic cookbook has become a vital resource for cooks across the world.

The Country Life Cookery Book

The Country Life Cookery Book PDF Author: Ambrose Heath
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903155998
Category : Cooking, English
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
A classic of seasonal cookery, these recipes are arranged by month and are profoundly seasonable.

They Can't Ration These

They Can't Ration These PDF Author: Vicomte de Mauduit
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781903155448
Category : Cookery (Natural foods)
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description

The Victorian Workhouse

The Victorian Workhouse PDF Author: Trevor May
Publisher: Shire Publications
ISBN: 9780747803553
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
Whether it was 'the batille', 'the spike', 'the work'us' or simply 'the house', the Victorian workhouse was the cause of dread and shame for thousands of men, women and children. This book looks at the principles that lay beind the New Poor Law of 1834, at the design and construction of workhouses, and at the lives of those who entered them.

Below Stairs

Below Stairs PDF Author: Margaret Powell
Publisher: Pan
ISBN: 1743038801
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 179

Book Description
A compelling and colourful memoir that takes the reader inside the forgotten world of domestic service. Arriving at the great houses of 1920s London, fifteen-year-old Margaret's life in service was about to begin... As a kitchen maid - the lowest of the low - she entered an entirely new world; one of stoves to be blacked, vegetables to be scrubbed, mistresses to be appeased, and even bootlaces to be ironed. Work started at 5.30am and went on until after dark. Yet from the gentleman with a penchant for stroking the housemaids' curlers, to the heartbreaking story of Agnes the pregnant under-parlourmaid, fired for being seduced by her mistress' nephew, Margaret's tales of her time in service are told with wit, warmth, and a sharp eye for the prejudices of her situation.
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