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Newsletter 100, Spring 2013 © Hampshire Mills Group |
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Reading Matters
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Allow me to introduce three
books: the first is a recipe book for re-cyclers and
another recipe book is for baking readers. Apart from being
produced for two different types of mills, each of the
recipe books has a different way of capturing the literary
attentive cook - but both are good reads whilst you bake or
eat! The third is a Mills Archive publication of the award
winning research carried out by Anna J. Cook on Holgate
Windmill’s millers and their families, charting through the
mill’s history.
David Plunkett visited the
legendary eight-sailed Heckington Windmill in December and
obtained the delightfully entitled
Windmill Puddings
there. The compiler, Rose Bakker, follows good
old-fashioned sense with a few Dutch homilies and uses for
left-over bread. Having inherited my own mother’s wartime
sense of food thrift - mum seldom threw anything away that
couldn’t be rehashed into another tasty meal - it’s
enjoyable to feel someone else shares my hate of waste as I
go through the book and see what Rose has taken from her
mother’s home baking and sayings. All sales proceeds of
this book are donated to the mill.
Windmill Puddings: Old Fashioned
Recipes Using Stale Bread by Rose Bakker
costs £5 incl p&p. Order on line from:
www.heckingtonwindmill.org.uk. It has a sensible
wipe clean cover but as yet I have not tried out any of the
recipes of either Rose’s book or
Millers’ Memories
which I bought on a visit to Redbournbury Watermill
on 1st January. Containing contributions of recipes,
sayings and poems from the mill’s volunteers and many
friends, it can make an interesting read whilst baking is in
progress. Obtainable by post from emailing:
Redbrymill@aol.com. Better still, pop in to the mills
when you are up in Lincolnshire or over in Hertfordshire.
In addition to producing flour, each mill has its own bakery
and shop plus oodles of history. Indeed, contribute to each
mill’s history by using their flour and following recipes
in their home-grown recipe books.
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Just £5.00 will buy
you a thoroughly researched and well presented
Social History of Milling at Holgate Windmill, York,
in The Millers of
Holgate. Anna Cook won top
prize in the first ever Mills Archive Research Award
Scheme and, as promised, her submission was selected
as the Archive’s No. 1 venture into publishing.
Printed in A4 format with 27 illustrations and maps
within its 40 pages, this
study concentrates on the men and women who owned
and operated this tower mill at Holgate. Dating from
the 18th century, it is a lone survivor of the once
many windmills of York.
Anna’s research
enables her to follow the history of the Waud
family, who worked the mill for the first 80 years,
and their successors; how they coped with changing
technology and the progress and success which
followed, before failure. The many challenges
Holgate mill faced were typical of the national
milling scene.
The
rigours of a harsh business world governed by
market prices along with industrial accidents and
work related diseases are well documented.
Anecdotal evidence citing cheating millers for
instance are interlaced with descriptions of a
plethora of social asides.
A book to educate and entertain, it is available
online at
www.millsarchive.com.
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