General Chat

I didn't enjoy this week's programme as much as the first one either. I am enjoying Kirsty's programme on Channel 4, now there's someone after my own heart with the buy secondhand and do it up ideas. She makes me laugh with her enthusiasm and her efforts, bless her. I would love to live next door to her.

Lizx

I'm amazed they didn't thing to use half and half - lard & butter.

Joan I thought as a baker she could surely have made lardy cake - only cake I know made with lard. As for Mrs Beaton she took a pound of butter a dozen egges and was away!!

Well I turned to OH and said you made 2 doz scones last week twice the size of those. He found we had sour milk hence the scones, kept some out and rest in freezer. The butcher's son was a treasure!!!!

I agree Chris,the Edwardian era did end in 1910,but I suppose people did carry on the same way into the Georgian era and a bit of "artist's licence" was used.I enjoyed the Victorian one better.
The baker's wife annoyed me a bit as she is supposed to be a master baker,so surely she could have made a lot of scones and small buns which are so easy to make and more suitable than bread and butter pudding in a teashop!
The butcher's son did very well,but the iron worker,I think would have been better with an ironmongers shop.

but I thought it finished in May 1910 with the death of Edward VII when George V ascended the throne, that suffragettes would not have worn a sash during 1914-1918 as they agreed to concentrate on war efforts instead, the conscription did not appear until 1916 for men aged 18-41. There was panic buying in the early days (as in WW2) but rationing did not appear until end 1917/early 1918.

I know we have to forgive the odd aerial and yellow lines in period dramas. OH in fits at my muttering to tv!! On the whole I enjoyed what they were trying to do.