Historical Recipes FREE

Do you enjoy cooking? Do you like history? Well, you will enjoy Viv's Family Recipes.

This little book is a collection of recipes from the author's family, collected over the 20th century from 1909 to the end. It gives an insight into how we ate and cooked throughout the last century, as well as a few comments about the people whom she got the recipes from.

The book  also contains a few hints and tips from long ago about cleaning, as well as cures for coughs and colds.

From today, 5th February, until 20th Feb, Viv's Family Recipes is FREE on Amazon.

Don't miss out on the opportunity to get this interesting book absolutely free. Just click on the book cover.

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Hurry and get your copy of Viv's Family Recipes. The offer ends today.

Viv's Family Recipes is a collection of recipes from V.M.Sang's family. It gives a glimpse into the sort of things people ate and cooked from 1909 to the present day.

Filled with anecdotes of the people who gave the recipes, it is, as well as a recipe book, a history of food during the while of the 20th century.

The book is on offer at only 0.99 (£ or $). Follow this link to go to its page at Amazon in your own country, but hurry. Don't miss this opportunity.

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Reminder

Don't forget that it's the last day you can get Viv's Family Recipes for only $0.99 or £0.99.

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I've just seen that it has a 5* review on Amaxon. Weh Heh!

A recipe from Viv's Family Recipes

I decided to do a different thing today as a change from my usual writing post. Here is a recipe from my recipe book, Viv's Family Recipes. It comprises, as the name suggests, recipes from my family and friends. Some are very old, dating back to 1909. You probably don't want to cook those, though, as they are rather stodgy and contain a lot of fat. They also take a lo-ong time to cook! Not what we like nowadays. Still, it's interesting to know the sort of things they ate then.

This recipe calls for 'sweet herbs'. I don't know what they are, but they seem to be very similar to Herbes de Provence if my taste remembers properly. I've substituted them and it seems to work.

Savoury Pancake filling

(Grandma’s recipe)

Ingredients

125g large open capped mushrooms, chopped

2 onions

2 tomatoes

½ x1 teaspoon of sweet herbs (I would guess that this is similar to Herbes de Provence, since you seem to be no longer able to get it sweet herbs. I have used Herbes de Provence quite successfully.)

Method

Fry the onion a little and add the mushrooms and tomatoes.

Continue cooking until all vegetables are done, and add salt and pepper to taste.

Serve hot on pancakes, rolled up. This makes an interesting first course or light lunch.



You can buy the book from Amazon if you want to find more recipes. It comes as both an ebook and a paperback.

An Update on My Writing

Well, yesterday I heard that Viv's Family Recipes is now available in a paperback edition. You can buy it from Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_1_11?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=viv%27s+family+recipes&sprefix=Viv%27s+Famil%2Cundefined%2C243&crid=3MHWRA19L54AH

and

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vivs-Family-Recipes-V-M-Sang-ebook/dp/B00IARRS50/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1486219904&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=viv%27s+family+recipes

or your local amazon site.


I sent the manuscript of Elemental Worlds off to the editor, so things are beginning to move on that one. I think it's the best one yet. No ideas as to when it will be availabe though. I'll keep you in touch. We need to agree a cover, too. As soon as we pick one, I'll reveal it to you all for comments.


On February 10th you can get The Wolf Pack free from Creativia, and on February 14th, Viv's Family Recipes is also free. Take advantage of these offers and many more from 1st to 14th February. You can see the books at Sahara Foley's website.

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Important Announcement

Viv's Family recipes is now available for Kindle on
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and

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Here is a bit about it.

This recipe book is the culmination of many years of cooking and baking by the author. She is passionate about food quality and believes that home cooked is best.

She has inherited a recipe book from her mother's eldest sister and a small one from her grandmother that contains recipes from the turn of the 19th century. She has also included many recipes from other family and friends from many places and times.

It is an interesting look at how our diets have changed over the years as well as our cooking methods. Many of the older recipes are done by long steaming. There are also some interesting 'Hints and Tips' from long ago.


If you are interested in cooking, and how our ancestors cooked and ate, you will enjoy this little book.The recipes date back as far as 1909, from my Grandmother. She was an excellent cook and always cooked the Christmas dinner well into her old age. Someone once said she could make a good meal out of an old boot. (Except the time she nearly poisoned the family when her eyes were beginning to fail, and she used daffodil bulbs instead of onions. Fortunately, apart from being sick, there were no ill effects. Although it wasn't funny at the time, we laughed about it later and teased her about it.)
The book will be on sale in paperback format very soon. I'll let you know when.

Relaunch of Viv's Family Recipes

I'm adding an extra blog today to announce the imminent relaunch of my recipe book, called Viv's Family Recipes.

These recipes have been gathered by my family and friends over the 20th century and give an insight into the kind of foods we ate from 1909 to the present.

Some of these recipes we would not do today, either due to their high fat content, or the long time it takes to cook them, but they are interesting, nonetheless.

There are many more modern recipes in the book though, that I use on a regular basis.
I have also given a bit of information about the people who gave me the recipes and there a
re some old-fashioned Hints and Tips, too.

Watch this space for when it will be available.