Name/TitleBooklet: Hotch-Potch
About this objectSlim booklet titled 'HOTCH-POTCH: A Collection of Recipes Culled from Members of the North Eastern Area of the Scottish Women's Rural Institutes'. Includes a foreword by Lady Tweedsmuir, MP, which states: "This book has been compiled in an effort to preserve the old traditional recipes of the North-East, which have largely been collected by Mrs Ferguson. as a past Chairman of the Housewives Committee for all Scotland, her long, devoted work for the "Rurals" has made her well known and loved in many a home." Also includes an inserted typed recipe for Sauty Bannocks. The content headings of the booklet are as follows:
- Soup
- Fish
- Potato Dishes
- Oatmeal Dishes
- Meat Dishes
- Puddings
- Baking
- Miscellaneous
Fully digitised (30 pages plus insert)
MakerNorth-Eastern SWRI
MakerWilliam C. Brown Advertising
Maker RolePublisher
Date Madec.1948-70
Period1950s-1960s
Place MadeScotland, Aberdeen
Place NotesWilliam C Brown Advertising, Union Bank Building, 207 Union Street, Aberdeen
Medium and MaterialsOrganic, paper
MeasurementsH: 213 x W: 140 mm (booklet)
H:180 x W: 203 mm (recipe)
Subject and Association Keywordscookery, cooking, recipes
Subject and Association KeywordsScottish Women's Rural Institutes (SWRI)
Subject and Association Keywordswomen's organisations
Subject and Association KeywordsParty politics
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Women's_Institutes:
The Scottish Women's Institutes (SWI), informally called "the Rural", is a registered charity which promotes the preservation of Scotland's traditions and rural heritage, particularly in the sphere of household activities. It does so by means of local groups of women which meet regularly throughout the country. It was formed on 26 June 1917 as the Scottish Women's Rural Institutes, part of the movement of rural women's institutes started in Stoney Creek, Ontario in 1897. The first meeting in Scotland look place at Longniddry in East Lothian. Catherine Hogg Blair had identified the need for a Scottish example of the emerging Women's Institutes movement and she organised the meeting at Longniddry to avoid a measles outbreak in her own village. 37 women became members and campaigner Nannie Brown was the area organiser. The SWRI created the chance for rural women to network and share their skills with one another. The group's magazine, Scottish Home and Country was first published in 1924. The name changed to Scottish Women's Institutes in 2015.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priscilla_Buchan,_Baroness_Tweedsmuir_of_Belhelvie:
Priscilla Jean Fortescue Buchan, Baroness Tweedsmuir of Belhelvie PC (née Thomson; 25 January 1915 – 11 March 1978), styled as Priscilla, Lady Grant between 1934 and 1944, and as Lady Tweedsmuir between 1948 and 1970, was a Unionist and Conservative politician.
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeBooklet
Object numberGWL-2010-90
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved