Constance Peel

thumb|Constance Peel Constance Peel Constance Dorothy Evelyn Peel Order of the British Empire OBE (née Constance Dorothy Evelyn Baliff; published as Mrs. C. S. Peel and Dorothy Constance Peel; 27 April 1868 – 7 August 1934) was an English journalist, editor, women's rights activist, novelist, memoirist, and author of non-fiction books on inexpensive methods of Housekeeping household management and cookery. In 1919 she was appointed Order of the British Empire Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). Quotes               Chocolate Cake¼ lb. chocolate grated     3 oz. flour.    and melted in a basin   2 eggs.    in the oven.                  4 drops vanilla essence.3 oz. butter.                      1 teaspoonful baking¼ lb. castor sugar.              powder.    Beat the butter, chocolate and sugar to a cream, add the vanilla. Beat the eggs and add the flour and baking powder and whip well for 5 minutes. Bake in a moderate oven in a buttered tin for an hour. Still Room Cookery: Recipes Old and New Issue 4 of Mrs. C.S. Peel's cook-books London Archibald Constable & Company 1905 https://books.google.com/books?id=oUJAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA33 33 (96 pages) It is the habit of gardeners to pick fruit, vegetables, etc., in the morning, and to bring in the day's supply at about eleven o'clock, and on Saturday to provide sufficient for two days' consumption. Except in the case of strawberries (which should be gathered, if possible, on the day on which they are to be eaten) and asparagus (which is infinitely better when cut just before the time for cooking), there is no objection to this plan, provided the garden produce is stored in the best manner. Carrots and turnips, leeks and onions, should be placed in wire racks; and lettuces should be arranged root-end downmost in a shallow pan of fresh water. Cabbages and cauliflower may be treated likewise. Parsley should be placed in water as if it were a flower—not soused head over heels in that liquid. Chapter I. Vegetable Dishes Dishes Made without Meat: Delicious Plant-Based Cuisine for Every Occasion Good Press 2023 https://books.google.com/books?id=T1rMEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT20 (48 pages; 1st edition 1907, published by Archibald Constable & Company) I imagine that there are to-day no three names better known in our country than those of Hudson Kearley, 1st Viscount Devonport Lord Devonport, D. A. Thomas Lord Rhondda, and J. R. Clynes Mr. Clynes, and this for the reason that they are connected with the intimate details of our lives! It was they who ordained we should or should not have bacon for our breakfast or Fruit preserves jam for our Tea (meal) tea.When husbands grumbled wives made a whipping-boy of the Food Minister Food Controller, and I have heard the demand of a child for jam dismissed with the words: "There ain't none, and if you're not a good boy I'll ask Lord Rhondda never to let you have no more neither." A Year in Public Life Constable & Company 1919 https://books.google.com/books?id=G-tHAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA3 3 (296 pages) In the first thirteen years of the 19th century century food was cheap and plentiful, ... and the development of Timeline of transportation technology#Late 19th century quick transport and Ice box cold storage which had come about in the latter part of the nineteenth century permitted a great variety of fare. But, in spite of this plenty, inquiry showed that for the most part the lower-paid workers were then considerably under-nourished, the better-paid just sufficiently nourished and the upper classes over-nourished. Though low wages explained to a great extent the under-nourishment, lack of knowledge of what to buy and how to cook it was, as it still is, responsible for some of the malnutrition both of the rich and of the poor. How we lived then, 1914-1918 : a sketch of social and domestic life in England during the war London publisher John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd 1929 2 (text at archive.org) External links Category:1868 births Category:1934 deaths Category:Autobiographers from the United Kingdom Category:Editors from England Category:Feminists from England Category:Memoirists from England Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:Novelists from England Category:Women activists from England Category:Women authors from England Category:Women born in the 19th century Category:Women journalists from England