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

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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.

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.

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C.S. and Ruth appreciated art in all of its forms and collected items that they loved. The house is adorned with paintings and sculptures primarily from American and European artists. run through the bottom, because they always have a clear run in. And you must keep that, with the trap in 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. Peter Thoday] Among those evacuated during the first days of the war were mothers with young children. Joyce and her small son Paul arrive from London. Ruth, like so many others, must learn to share her kitchen.

What the BBC got absolutely right in 1989 was the schedule timing. In the 13 weeks prior to ‘ The Victorian Kitchen’ starting, they re-ran the first series in the same Thursday slot. This meant on 12th October, 1989, we watched Harry close the big green doors at Chilton Foliat on one series and, a week later, we were treated to seeing Harry open them up again for a second marvellous season. 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. Peter Thoday] A covering of earth was recommended as extra protection. This also replaced the valuable growing space lost when the shelter was erected. Annie spreads compost, before planting trailing marrows. C.S. gave not only money to support community initiatives, he also gave his time as an active member of many groups and organizations, some of which remain a part of Flint today. Below is a list of some of the organizations C.S. was connected to: 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] 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. 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] Ruth Rawlings Mott was a mother, a local leader and philanthropist, and an active partner in the community alongside her husband, Charles Stewart Mott. With characteristic generosity, she endowed her namesake foundation with her heart, her home (Applewood), and resources to benefit Flint many years into the future. Her legacy of caring and providing opportunities for others is part of the ongoing work of the Ruth Mott Foundation, which announced its first community grants in 2001.