‘Leaded Range in Dales Cottage’
( LAVC/PHO/P0361) By Werner Kissling
The Survey also records tasty tried and tested favourites.
Any keen bakers today may enjoy learning some bread-making tips from housekeeper Miss Dibnah (b.1890) who was interviewed in Welwick, Yorkshire in 1955. She explained the process of kneading a mixture of flour, yeast, sugar and warm water before covering with a clout (cloth) and standing it in front of the fire. Once risen the baking tins are placed in the yewn (oven) and checked every 20 minutes.
You can hear the recording of Miss Dibnah describing her technique here
Listen here
‘Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire’ ( LAVC/SRE/A723r) by Stanley Ellis and Peter Wright
A transcription for this audio can be found (here)
You may also like to listen to Mrs Hesselden’s (b. 1882) methods, recorded in Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire in 1952:
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‘Sound Recordings, North Yorkshire and East Riding of Yorkshire’ ( LAVC/SRE/D081) by Stanley Ellis
A transcription for this audio can be found (here)
The fieldworkers recorded
The fieldworkers recorded a range of different terms for the bread bins where freshly baked loaves were kept. These included a pankin (Yorkshire), a bread mug (County Durham, Northumberland, Cheshire, Lancashire and Derbyshire) or pan mug (Derbyshire), a pippin (Lincolnshire and Derbyshire) or pippin pot (Nottinghamshire), a bread bing (Suffolk), a pan (Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire), a crock (Cumbria), a bread pot (Yorkshire and Cumbria), a muffin pot and a cake pot (both used in Yorkshire).
‘A Quern Stone, used for milling grain’
( LAVC/PHO/P1134) By Werner Kissling
