Ruth Mott's Favourite Recipes: Heart-warming dishes from BBC tv's Victorian Kitchen Cook

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With the government about to tell us how to prep for a No Deal Brexit, I found narrator Peter Thoday’s last words very apt: Harry Dodson] The girls had to go wherever they were asked to go. My uncle had them, and he had one or two very good ones, and he spoke highly of them. And I don’t doubt that many, many men found them extremely useful and would have been very, very hard pushed to have kept up with the gathering of crops and that sort of thing, without the aid of the Land Girls. I have the series The Victorian Kitchen Garden on DVD and the book, I just love the series as do my younger daughters. I also loved the Wartime Kitchen & Garden which featured a completely different assistant helping Ruth Mott and was not Alison Arnison who played the part of Scullery Maid excellently in The Victorian Kitchen Garden. Let's hope they release The Wartime Kitchen & Garden onto dvd soon, in the meantime UKTV Garden's shows both series once or twice a year, the Wartime K&G was on in Feb this year. Ruth Mott] Now I’m cutting this into about six or eight rings. This is a nice apple because it’s soft, and so it’ll dry out, ‘coz that’s the object of the manoeuvre. And then we can keep these for the rest of the winter, or quite a long time. We’re going, also, to light a sulphur candle, and turn the jar up over it so that it will fill with fumes. And then that will stop the apples, hopefully, discolouring. They’re bound to go a little bit brown, because of the drying out process.

Automobile Club; The City Club; Cranbrook School Trustees (Bloomfield Hills); Elks Club; Flint Community Education; Flint Junior College Board (now Mott Community College); Hurley Hospital; Kiwanis; Masonic Lodge; Michael Hamady Club House for Stepping-Stone Girls; Mott Camp for Boys; President of YMCA; Red Feather Fund; Rotary Club; Rotary International; Stevens Institute of Technology; St. Paul’s Episcopal Church; YWCA Trustee Peter Thoday] In the glasshouses of estate gardens like Chilton, thousands of ornamental plants had to be destroyed to make way for food crops. But, if like these climbing roses, they took up little space, they could be spared. Harry digs the recently cleared bed to grow early cauliflowers. Glasshouses were a great asset, as they provided vegetables at a time of year when there was a shortage of fresh greens. Peter Thoday] A pool of tractors was created to help bring land into production. At Chilton, the derelict orchard is to make way for vegetables. As you already answered the first question about The Wartime Kitchen & Garden I'll move on to answer the second. The programme in which Harry Dodson visted Canada was called Harry's Big Adventure and you can find a little bit of information bout it at this url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0879815/ Ruth Mott] A drop of water to seal the edge of this [pastry top] with. We’ll make that fit – that will fit by the time Ruth’s finished. And then we’ll have to put a little bit of greaseproof paper, or some old margarine paper – we don’t want the cloth too dirty because we don’t like washing dirty cloths. That’s it.

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Peter Thoday] With the gardens depleted of young men, a new workforce filled the gap -volunteers of the Women’s Land Army. Straight from typing pools and shop counters, the girls were interviewed, given a brief training, and sent wherever they were needed. Peter Thoday] On Sunday January 8th 1940, rationing began. Butter, sugar and bacon were the first items controlled. Two months later, on March 11th, meat was added to the list. Unlike the earlier foodstuffs, it was rationed by price, not weight. The cheaper the cut, the more you got. Peter Thoday] Harry Dodson, head gardener at Chilton Gardens, relives the moment of heartache that faced many gardeners in 1939. A few miles away, in her country cottage, cook Ruth Mott prepares to cope again with the shortages of the wartime kitchen. Together they will show how the skills of the gardener and the cook fed the nation during five long years of war. Using the advice, recipes and methods of the time, they will return to the days when everyone had to make the most of what the could get. Ruth Mott] Well first of all, we were told where to go and collect your ration books. And they were dished out in our local village hall. And you went and collected them and then you brought them home and you decided who you thought you would like to register with. Ruth Mott] We’ve lifted enough water with these [leeks], to keep them moist. These will boil down when they’re inside, so you get quite a bit of crust around it, which helps fill you up in wartime. Plenty of suet crust. That’s right, that’s done now.

Ruth Mott] You registered with whatever, if your grocer, you had to ask them if they would accept you. Possibly if you were a bad payer, he perhaps wouldn’t feel too happy about taking you. Also you registered with your butcher, and then you just went to those each week and got what you were entitled to. You couldn’t… if you didn’t take your ration this week, you couldn’t put it off until next week and have a double ration. At 95 years old, Ruth Mott height not available right now. We will update Ruth Mott's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.At the age of 70, Mott replied to an appeal, printed in the Women's Institute journal Home and Country, for women who had worked in country houses before the Second World War, especially those who had experience of Victorian methods of cooking. The BBC wished to build on the success of the television show The Victorian Kitchen Garden, which explored how a country garden would be run during Victorian Britain. The second series was called The Victorian Kitchen, and this explored how the produce grown in the garden, by series gardener Harry Dodson, would be cooked using Victorian methods. [3] [5]

Harry Dodson] We’ve got a few summer crops all from it, and then we cloche up some autumn crops again. Harry Dodson] I knew from one or two other men and that, how sad it was to have to throw away perfectly good plants. Plants that had been tended for years, and to see them thrown away on the fire heap, or on the compost heap. It was… it was a period of great sadness. Mott was born Mildred Ruth Pizzey in Yattendon in Berkshire, England in 1917 to Alfred Pizzey, a gardener. [2] As a child she attended the local school, which was designed by the English architect Alfred Waterhouse. And if the 50th Anniversary of ‘Dad’s Army’ can get the coverage it is getting this summer, including commemorative stamps from Royal Mail, surely there’s a bit of room somewhere for WTKG?

Applewood is home to both fine and decorative art as well as large-scale outdoor art installations. The grounds have been an inspiration for many artists for over a century, including C.S. Mott’s first wife, Ethel Mott, who was a painter, and Ruth Mott, who was a dancer and enthusiastic supporter of arts and culture. Ruth Mott also did a one off Christmas programme from her home & village in Berkshire which we've had on video for years now. The VT is getting quite old and is watched at times through the year and always in the weeks up to Christmas. it's a lovely programme and very festive with lots of Christmas songs with the old radio sound, great recipes and the 'Christmas in a village atmosphere' If you can catch it repeated it's well worth seeing.