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Seeking Tawnies WILDLIFE REFLECTIONS By Alexi Francis. Alexi also drew the illustration. If you would like to buy the original or see other work, go to her website:www.alexifrancisillustrations.co.uk
Night is here. A sliver of moon crests the spine of clouds like a sail or fin, sharp and bright. I am on the path in Withdean Wood beside Withdean Sports Complex. In the orange glow of the stadium’s lights the wood becomes an eerie, sepia, stage-set scene. Traffic murmurs from the road and the lights of passing cars stipple the trees, setting them briefly alight. Here on the edge of town I’m in search of tawny owls hoping to hear the familiar ke-wick of the female and the male’s hoo-ooo reply. Round-eyed, harsh defender of its young, this bird of hollow tree and ivy was once associated with our fears of foreboding, of evil, witchcraft and death. It is sometimes mobbed by other birds as it is a predator and hunts mice and voles by stealth using its large eyes, acute hearing and silent flight. Adult owls defend territories all year round and year after year; they are resident birds. Come August, young owls start to disperse to find territories of their own and autumn is a good time to hear them.
Back in the wood I wait, torch turned off, rooted on the shadowy path, listening. Voices of young people are audible from the sports stadium, Over sixty years ago the stadium was the site of a zoo and I imagine ghosts of the animals silently roaming the green as in a
dream. The wood is still, no rustlings of small mammals, no flap of dosing wood pigeon. Later the streets all around will be quiet too and I’ll be in bed. Perhaps an owl will then emerge. Perhaps. I hear no owl now. The night pours in and it is time to go. I believe they are somewhere in the city so my search for the Brighton tawny continues.
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Valerie Hedgethorne taught cookery & cake decorating for many years in Brighton before becoming a Home Economist and writing for the national magazine CAKE for 20 years. Valerie is a past president of the British Sugarcraft Guild & is a member of the local Guild Branch, which meets monthly in Rottingdean for demonstrations of all types of cake decorating. Anyone with an interest in cake decorating is welcome – for more information phone Valerie on 01273 505223.
This is actually not a tart but is a cake which comes from Cambrai in France. It is lovely to have warm as a desert but equally good as a cake when cold. If eaten warm it is especially delicious served with single cream.
Canned peaches are an alternative to pears. You will need a flan dish or tart tin measuring 23cm/9in across.
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PEAR TART DE CAMBRAI CONTINUED INGREDIENTS:
METHOD:
• 3 pears
Heat the oven to 180C/Gas 4. Grease the dish or tin.
• ½ lemon – juice
Peel, core and slice the pears. Put onto a plate and sprinkle with lemon juice.
• 150g (5oz) self-raising flour • 200g (7oz) caster sugar • 110g (4oz) butter
Mix the flour and sugar together. Melt the butter and mix with the eggs and vanilla extract. Beat with the flour and sugar until smooth.
• 8 tablesp milk • ½ tsp vanilla extract • 2 eggs Topping
Pour into the dish or tin and arrange the pears on top. Melt the 25g butter and drizzle it over the top then sprinkle with the sugar.
• 25g (1oz) butter
Bake until golden brown and firm, approximately 50-60 minutes.
• 15g (1/2 oz) caster sugar
Dust with icing sugar.
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Bringing the harvest home. Harvest is from the Old English word hærfest, meaning “autumn” and came to refer to the reaping and gathering of grain and other crops. Traditionally, the Harvest Festival takes place on the Sunday nearest to the autumn equinox full moon – the Harvest moon. Although sometimes neighbouring churches hold their festivals on different Sundays so neighbours can attend each other’s celebrations. We have given thanks for successful harvests in Britain since pagan times. The celebrations used to be much larger: ample food, merriment, music & romance plus the welcome freedom from toil. Right up until the 20th century farmers would celebrate the end of the harvest with a harvest supper, to which all who had helped bring the harvest in were invited. The end of the harvest would be 8
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Elderberry Elixirs By Lucinda Warner
Tradition states that the summer has ended when the elderberries are ripe and right now they are hanging in generous clusters from the trees. A lovely way to herald the beginning of autumn is to gather a basketful and follow in the footsteps of previous generations in making elderberry preparations to enjoy over the autumn and winter. Elderberries are one of the most popular foods to forage and are not only delicious when properly prepared but are also excellent medicine for strengthening the immune system. Research has shown elderberry to be anti-viral as well as being packed with beneficial anti-oxidants so it is great to collect now in order to prepare for the colder months to come. Elderberries should not be consumed raw as they can make some people feel nauseous and may lead to vomiting and diarrhoea - it’s important to cook, tincture or similarly process them first. Also it’s important to be 100% 10
sure of your identification before picking any wild plant as there are other purple/ black berries in the hedgerow that could cause confusion! There are many ways you can use your elderberry harvest once you have gathered it. First remove the berries from the stems and discard any that are green or shriveled, you want only the plump, juicy purple/ black berries. Traditional recipes include elderberry wine, elderberry jelly and elderberry syrup. Here are a few of my favourites that we make each year. Elderberry and Cardamom Infused Vinegar: This is simple to make and is delicious in a salad dressing or drunk in hot water with a little honey as an immune tonic. Elderberries – fresh or dried enough to fill a standard jar Tablespoon cardamom pods Apple cider vinegar Lightly fill a jar with the destemmed elderberries and
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cardamom pods and cover with the cider vinegar. Leave to infuse for a month, giving it a shake now and then, and then strain through a muslin cloth or jelly bag. Bottle and label with the date and use a tablespoonful in a cup of hot water or add to foods as desired. Elderberry Syrup • 4 handfuls Elderberries approx • 1 Vanilla bean • Orange peel from one orange (organic if possible) • 4 Cloves • Several slices of fresh ginger • Muscovado sugar Place all the ingredients together in a pan and add water to cover. Simmer for about 30 mins, adding a little more water if necessary. Mash the berries with a fork and then strain out the liquid, which should have reduced by about half and be a deep purple colour. Measure and return to the pan adding the same amount of muscovado sugar in grams and you have liquid in mls. (So if you have 200mls elderberry liquid you will add 200g sugar.) Bring to
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a boil until thickened, pour into sterilized bottles and label. You can use this in tea, on porridge or straight off the spoon! Spiced Elderberry Tea: • 1 Tablespoon of fresh or dried elderberries • Half a small Cinnamon stick • 2 cloves • 2 cardamom pods • A little Coconut sugar (or sweetener of choice) to taste Combine all ingredients in a
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Best Foot Forward: Children’s Shoes By Jayne Shrimpton
Privileged young children wear fashionable early-Victorian footwear in this illustration from 1841 [Jayne Shrimpton] When I was young and moaning about having to wear boring regulation school shoes, my Dad told me to consider myself lucky, as when he was a child in 1920s London some of his classmates had no shoes at all, attending school in bare feet. This seemed unbelievable to me, but, sadly, was true: leather shoes and
boots were expensive and often difficult for large families to afford, especially in the days before the welfare state. Historically, appearing in public without shoes or stockings demonstrated extreme poverty: a person’s clothes might be worn or patched, but going barelegged and barefoot was
considered degrading. Yet until at least the 1930s, this was not uncommon in poor urban and rural communities, young children often going barefoot in the streets or fields. To address the ongoing footwear problem in manufacturing districts of the midlands and north, sturdy wooden-soled leather clogs were often worn - cheaper and longer-lasting than conventional boots. Housewives everywhere would sometimes go without new shoes so that their menfolk and older children could be prioritised and appear decent for work and school. Lack of footwear, important for a respectable image, was humiliating - a clear sign of reduced circumstances. For generations school pupils were aware of their classmates’ individual situations from the condition of their boots or shoes - or their absence.
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Traditional leather buttoned or laced boots were still worn prior to WW1, as shown in this family photograph, c.1910-13 [Kat Williams]
In the typical household, providing well-fitting footwear for growing children has always been a concern. Before mass-production, all cities, towns, villages and even small hamlets boasted professional shoemakers and bootmakers who made and repaired footwear for the local population, although bespoke made-to-measure boots or shoes were mainly restricted to privileged children from affluent families. Charles Darwin’s granddaughter, Gwen Ravarat, recalled in her memoirs how, as children in late-1880s/1890s Cambridge, she and her siblings had high leather boots made by the local shoemaker, ‘who ran a tickly pencil round our toes…We never had ready-made boots.’ However, in many ordinary working families new boots were more likely bought ‘off the shelf’ whenever finances allowed, sometimes without the prospective wearers even being present. A man receiving his week’s wages after work on 16
a Saturday might visit a lateopening shop or warehouse and return home as the family patriarch and bread-winner, proudly bearing new children’s boots. As mechanised manufacturing advanced in Britain, some footwear began to be massproduced from the 1870s, with Clark’s (established 1825) a pioneer in the field. Tiny Victorian and Edwardian children were sometimes dressed in dainty shoes strapped with a narrow bar high across the instep, but school-age children typically wore substantial leather ankle boots: in the 1800s these were usually buttoned using a button hook, while laced boots became more common in the early-1900s, especially for boys. During the 1910s low-cut shoes began to replace traditional boots for men, women and children, reflecting the gradual modernisation of dress. However, some children continued to wear
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Victorian children wore high leather boots. This little girl, photographed in Brighton c.late-1870s/1880 wears very fashionable buttoned boots [Jayne Shrimpton]
Between the wars, children wore bar or strap shoes, or sturdier lace-ups for walking. This Barkers of Kensington advert appeared in The Daily Mail, 8th March 1921 [Jayne Shrimpton]
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old-fashioned boots after the First World War, the same footwear being repaired and then handed down from child to child in large families. Conversely, in comfortablyplaced households where new shoes were acquired regularly, there were recognised gradations in the style of footwear according to the age of the son or daughter, with small children wearing picturesque juvenile modes and ‘teenagers’ adopting more adult forms of shoe or boot. As school uniform developed and became established in the early 20th century, soft rubber-soled canvas sneakers or plimsolls were adopted for PE and children often wore these cheap comfortable shoes for play after school, on
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This photograph taken in Llandudno in the 1940s demonstrates the marked differences between styles of shoe considered suitable for different age groups [Kat Williams]
During WW1, children’s and teenagers’ low-cut shoes began to replace boots and canvas sneakers were worn for PE, as seen in this Harrods school wear advertisement from 1917 [Jayne Shrimpton]
weekends and for holidays. In disadvantaged families these were sometimes worn throughout the day, instead of expensive leather boots or shoes. During the 1920s as suntans became fashionable and going bare-legged without stockings or socks grew socially acceptable, sandals with a T-bar became popular for children. The basic T-bar shoe or sandal remained a familiar style throughout the 20th century.
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Between the wars it became more widely recognised that comfortable, well-made footwear was important for children’s healthy development and that ‘bad feet’ were the consequence of ill-fitting shoes. During the Second World War, when material resources were in short supply and dress items strictly
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measuring instrument to aid the shop assistant fitting children’s shoes.
Charles Brannock’s foot measuring device was first patented in the 1920s [Wikimedia Commons] human foot and formed an important prototype for many future models. Meanwhile Clarks had earlier appointed as a director an American, John Walter Bostock, experienced in superior US factory processes. Bostock devised a new shoe fitting system based on the detailed analysis of thousands of foot measurements taken from local school children. Reflecting the findings of the survey, the company launched its new children’s ranges in 1945 with a choice of four width fittings, at the same time as the new Clarks foot gauge that acted as a scientific
Start-rite (established 1792) also rose to prominence around this time for its quality children’s shoes, the company’s iconic twins’ advertising posters being displayed on the London Underground between the 1940s and 1960s. In 1955 Startrite was granted a royal warrant by HRH Queen Elizabeth II to supply footwear for the young Princes Charles, Andrew and Edward and Princess Anne. A second royal warrant was granted in 1989 by HRH the Prince of Wales to supply children’s footwear for Princes William and Harry, but this was withdrawn in 2003 when the company’s production moved abroad. Visits to Brighton’s key shoe shops are an annual family ritual at the start of the new school year. Parents will be concerned with the relevant school’s style specifications and the fit of the shoes, children themselves mainly interested in what looks cool. Once in the classroom they may not notice whether friends are wearing second-hand or ill-fitting footwear, but they will all have shoes. Best foot forward…. www.jayneshrimpton.co.uk
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A version of the memorable Start-rite poster, first designed in the 1930s and widely circulated throughout the 1940s-1960s [Wikimedia Commons]
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The ‘timeless’ T-bar children’s sandal was popular for much of the 20th century and beyond. This Start-rite model dates to about 2000 [Wikimedia Commons]
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The Michaelmas Daisies, among dede weeds, Bloom for St Michael’s valorous deeds. an ever present danger in the timber buildings of the time. The word curfew is thought to come from the French couvre feu, meaning ‘cover fire’. The bell was tolled every night, apart from Sunday, until Shrove Tuesday. Michaelmas also marks the end of the blackberry picking season. It is said that when St Michael hurled Satan out of heaven he landed on brambles, causing him to curse and spit on them. He is said to renew his curse on Michaelmas Day, so it is unlucky to gather them after this day.
Michaelmas is another name for the feast of St Michael and All Angels. St Michael was the Angel who hurled the devil from heaven. His feast day falling as the days shorten is thought to remind people of his strength - providing protection against the sinister forces believed to be more active in the dark months ahead. Michaelmas, 29th September, was an important day in the past – the third of the quarter days. It marked the end of the farming year and the next day labourers could present themselves, along with their tools, at the nearest market town for hire in the coming year. Michaelmas used to be a common day for the winter night curfew to begin, sounded by the tolling of the church bell at 8pm. Curfew was the time when household fires were to be doused, a law introduced by William the Conqueror to try and reduce the risk of fire –
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