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Trixie Pachy interviewed by Edna d'Lima


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Click here to listenGetting back to the actual cooking, the basic cooking, what other utensils would you have used?

We would have used, I suppose. Making pastry we had old fashioned bowls, big ceramic bowls. Still got them in the shops, they've got a certain pattern on the outside, fawnish colour on the outside and white on the inside, and a wooden rolling pin. If you couldn't find the rolling pin there was no problem, you used the milk bottle and that was that. Although down in Cornwall we very rarely had milk bottles. The milkman came round with a milk churn in the morning and ladled it out for us into jugs. We stood at the door with jugs and he ladled the milk out into jugs for us. He very seldom, he might have had a Tizer bottle but that would only be at Christmas of course. You couldn't have Tizer at any other time but Christmas.

Click here to listen What kind of a jug would that have been?

They were china jugs, they weren't glass in those days. We only had the big tall china jugs and we used to stand and Monty came. He came with a churn thing and a long handled ladle and used to ladle out these pints, half-pints into our jugs. I realised at a very later date, quite recently really, when I think about it. He'd say "I've got a bit extra here. I don't want to take this back with me. Go and get another jug and lets pop it into that." We never paid for that. He knew that we weren't very well off and with children in the house he used to give us extra milk. I feel sure this is what happened but I've only just realised that.

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