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Food Preparation

Trixie Pachy interviewed by Edna d'Lima
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Click here to listenEven our bathing, we had all this hot water on top of the range in Cornwall, we had a tin bath. The first person got in then the next person would go in the water because it took such a long while to get this water hot-- there is no way you could all have, and that was once a week of course - there was no such thing as everyday. Strip washing, yes, but not baths. Unheard of.
Tin Bath
Tin Bath

Click here to listenAt the time, I used to get up, get the baby ready, he went off to work. Men had to be got off to work in those days. You didn't do it yourself, you got the coffee and everything, and then get the baby ready and walk up the hill, actually through the woods because it wasn't made up, walk through the woods into Hadleigh,and do my shopping and walk back again.
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