Beef Loaf, Snow Cake and Cooking Husbands

February

Snow Cake (gluten-free)

1/4 lb of potato flour, 1/4 lb of castor sugar, 1/4 lb of butter, 1tsp of baking powder, 2 eggs (2 whites and 1 yolk), a little vanilla flavouring. N Crossley (Jubilee Bazaar recipe book (1925))

Beef Loaf

1lb of lean beef, 1/4 lb of lean ham, 2ozs of breadcrumbs, 1 oz of butter, 1 egg, 4 tablespoons of cream. Put the beef and ham into a mincer, melt the butter and add to the meat, beat the egg and add to the other ingredients. Mix well together, season well to taste, put into a loaf tin, and bake in a moderate oven for 1-1 1/2 hours or steam for 2 to 2 1/2 hours. Mrs Alan Greenwood, 48 Cambridge Street. (From the Jubilee Bazaar Recipe Book, 1925)

How to Cook Husbands

Husbands are really delicious when properly treated, but many are utterly spoiled by mis-management. Some women seem to think their husbands are bladders and blow them up; others keep them in pickle all their lives. No husband will be tender and good managed in this way. Do not go to market for him, as the best are always brought to your door. It is better to have none unless you will patiently learn to cook him. Make a clear steady fire out of love and cheerfulness. Set him as near this as seems to agree with him. If he splutters and fizzes do not be anxious; some husbands are thus till they are quite done. Add a little sugar in the form of a kiss, but no pepper or vinegar on any account Do not stick any sharp instrument into him to see if he is coming tender, you cannot fail to know when he is done. If thus treated, you will find him very digetstible, and he will keep as lon as you want him, unless you set him in a cold place. J Collinge, 21 Cambridge Street, (Central Methodist Church Youth Club Recipes and Quotations 1956)