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Sandbags

Last year, the Council
were able to secure a
n u m b e r o f f i l l e d
sandbags. These are
avai lable for any
parishioners to borrow if it
looks like they might be
affected by flooding. If you need to borrow any sandbags, please contact the
Clerk on bereregispc@gmail.com.

Fencing at Egdon Close

book is all handwritten recipes collected it appears by one lady from friends from Having been asked by multiple residents for an explanation of why the path
other places in the country. I think this must be about 1951 or before. These were through the residents car park at Egdon Close had been fenced off recently, we
days of food rationing, with food shortages before photocopies, and paper was have reached out to Aster Housing for an explanation and will give an update
short. Recipes were precious. People jealously guarded their baking secrets. when we get more information..

I will be making a presentation of the book at the November History Society
meeting and maybe will try some of the recipes for consumption. Wildlife Group
There are recipes for marmalades and jams one of which is dated 1902. There The Wildlife Group meet on the first Saturday of every month, but are in urgent
are plenty of cakes. One is described as ‘a very fine cake’ another cake is a need of more volunteers in order to continue. If you could spare a couple of hours
welsh cake called Bryn Asaph cake. No mention of this on the internet although once a month, to help with a variety of tasks in relation to improving the areas
there is a cake shop in the North Wales village of St Asaphs. There are Victoria around the Nature Reserve, stream and footpaths in particular, then contact Mike
Buns made with Ground rice. Gee on mike.n.g@outlook.com.
The measurements are imperial and refer to gills and handfuls. The oven cooking
instructions are interesting and need interpretation. There are recipes using Communibus Trips
dripping and a large section on the salting pickling and pressing of meats. Others
are cold remedies and cough remedies. Some look very unexciting and one These are proving incredibly popular and the bus is now out almost every week.
using tinned lobster. The programme for the remainder of the year is as follows:

I hope that over the next few months we will be able to try some of these recipes Dec 6th Palmer’s Nursery - £10 Depart 10am
and print them in the parish magazine. Some of them may be very similar to
those recipes in common use today. Some may be rather ordinary compared to Dec 12th Xmas Lunch* & Lights - £10 Depart 1pm
the luxurious cakes and bakes we have today. It will be interesting to go back
and see what the fashionable recipe was in past times and see if there is Dec 18th Xmas Lunch* & Lights - £10 Depart 1pm
anything in the book that might be different or original. Lunch at additional cost
To book please contact Kim Benjafield on 01929 471170
Trips for 2024 will be announced in due course, and any queries relating to the
Communibus can be directed to the clerk or a Parish Councillor.

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