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The pease pudding caper went like this
Cooked down and blended into a solid mass, sample seen in the saucer, butter and malt vinegar beaten in.
Then supper was slices of it fried in oil and butter, with an egg. The black specks on the egg are lovely flavored pan scrapings.
The tradition I grew up in, this goes with ham or bacon, black pudding, sausage, eggs for a special full breakfast or high tea.
High tea is not to be confused with the dainty event of cucumber sandwiches and tiny cakes which is afternoon tea. For me, for this high tea, an egg was enough.
Speaking of working class food, yesterday's Textiles and Tea featured a young union activist, brilliant artist, now working in punch embroidery and walking the walk.
Her work is huge, some 72"by 42", depicts the working class struggle and is stunning in color and concept. She's massively intelligent and perceptive and good humored though none the less passionate.
Very timely to feature her in the current resurgence of the trade union movement and the union busting by such outfits as Star----- and Amaz-- not giving them any exposure here.
She's a very young, great talent, started with a degree from the prestigious Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia, switched from painting to textiles, weaving then embroidery, in the teeth of opposition from her teachers to whom painting was the ultimate art.
Now she's back in Tennessee where she was born, and finding her feet there with already major exhibit credentials. I'm planning to follow her career.
So that was yesterday, happy day all round. Today it's Desk Set st the library movie afternoon.
And the reading is Kate Atkinson
Her latest, where she's partly channeling Maisie Dobbs and I think might be setting up a post WW1 Jackson Brodie detective in CI Frobisher's partnership with former combat nurse then peacetime librarian Gwendolen Kelling.
Set in the seedy nightclub world after WW1, it's already gripping and I've only started it, with nightclub owner, notorious Nellie Coker and her various offspring, I have to get back to it now, so
Happy day everyone, vote, read, support your good causes. One little light is powerful.
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