Free from the kitchen
Printable sheets for the jobs a recipe leaves you to work out alone. Every recipe on this site is free to read and free to print, and none of them are gated. These are the pages that go on a door or in a drawer.
TWO PAGES. PDF
How to Read an Old Recipe
A gill, a moderate oven, butter the size of an egg. What they meant, in numbers you can use. Old measures converted, oven descriptions in real degrees, the instructions that leave something out, and the places an old recipe is not safe to follow.
Works on any old recipe, not only the ones here.
FOUR PAGES. FILLABLE PDF
The Cottage Christmas Gift Kit
The hard part of gift baking is never the baking. It is the four days between your oven and somebody else’s kitchen. What keeps, what travels, what can be posted, a blank Christmas list, twelve gift tags, tin labels and a recipe card to pass on.
Type into it on screen, or print it blank and write by hand.
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They are all free and none of them are gated. Rhubarb crumble, molasses cookies, tea biscuits, homemade butter and the rest, each with its history and how long it keeps.