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Anne Hughes ‘Her Boke’ is an extraordinary document written by a young woman who lives and breathes in its pages. It describes a domestic, endlessly busy and clever but also loving and tender Anne Hughes who devoted her life to her husband and their farm. With recipes for ‘Pansy Wine’, ‘Maye Daye cakes’ and how to bake a hare and with stories of love and scandal, you will be touched by her memoirs and ‘laff so hartilie’ at her stories, language and experiences. It is truly a book for all!
Originally compiled and serialized in the Farmers Weekly in the 1930s, this diary
is a book every chef will adore but is also a quirky, charming,, hilarious and educational
insight into the life of a Gloucestershire farmer’s wife and 18th Century rural life
as a whole; pig-
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