ENVIABLE JOB

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 42, 17 August 1935, Page 19

ENVIABLE JOB

"A PACK OF NONSENSE"

So much is heard of the lamentable ways of women with vegetables, of conquest of ,the , kitchen .. by tinned foods, and of the' decline of English cooking, that it is a relief when somebody ups : and says that. these, complaints are. a packet of. nonsense—or should be taken with a handful of kitchen salt, says the "Morning Post." That is thb rejoinder of Mrs. Arthur Webb, who has.been on.a mission to make your mouth water; a tasting .tour of the English' counties to see how in solid farmhouses and ■ yeomen's cottages the daily, battle with country appetites is waged. She has come back full'of good things, and with the recipes for compounding them; and these succulent researches Mrs. Webb has been passing on to the morning audiences of the British Broadcasting Corporation; so that many a husband home for dinner that^same evening from the city has been flabbergasted by Singing Hinnies or a Figgy Squab. Many of ■ the tasty and favourite dishes Mrs. Webb is raising from a local to a general'fame are made not from.written recipes, but according to the methods mothers taught their daughters, and in \ getting them safely down on paper, Mrs. Webb is doing for ■ traditional English cookery what Mr. Cecil Sharpe" did for traditional English songs. And the interesting point, is that "modern wives" -who have "forgotten' how to cook," and -who are said to rely chiefly on baking powders, and tin-openers, are clamouring to be told more, and are'eager to fill the small cubic space'of town flats with the recondite, though; savoury, odours of good old country,-fare, '■'"