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Sound Recording, Suffolk

Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A371r Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Sound Recording, Suffolk

Level: Item

Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A371r

Creator(s): Dunn, Ginette

Site Location(s): Subject - Blaxhall, East Suffolk, England, United Kingdom( 52.161, 1.4619 )

Date(s): 11 September 1974

Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 60' 45".

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414422

Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture

1 - Rabbit Pie

Media credit University of Leeds

Description

Priscilla Savage, recorded at home in Blaxhall; talks about the village Youth Hostel; her parents and siblings; food, diet and bread baking; own family and children; working in service; childhood in Little Glemham; the village of Wickham Market; shows photographs of her sons/daughters and grandchildren; in service as a cook; mother's work; parish allowance; education; wages; gleaning; baking bread; pig keeping, curing bacon and ham; local herring seller; differences between curing ham and bacon.


Bread making; cookery, including the preparation of rabbit pie; rabbiting; sparrow soup; Swimmers [term for dumplings]; stone picking for road mending; clothes and shoes; home brewing beer - describes ingredients and process; milk; the village and neighbourliness; growing vegetables; her son, Lenny Savage, singing; PS singing to her children; her husband's songs; George Ewart Evans and his wife; Suffolk rusks.


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Physical and technical conditions

9.5cm/sec. High recording level. Adjusted on AC copy.

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