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Cheesemaking: Pickling the Curd
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
July 1963
Mrs. M. E. Scott preparing to place an egg into strong pickle, or brine, to test its strength, in her home, West Stonesdale ( Swaledale). If the brine is the correct strength, the egg will float in it...
Cheesemaking: Pickling the Curd
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
July 1963
Mrs. M. E. Scott placing an egg into strong pickle, or brine, to test its strength, in her home, West Stonesdale ( Swaledale). The egg is floating, which indicates that the brine is the correct streng...
Cheesemaking: Pickling the Curd
Kissling, Werner (1895-1988)
July 1963
Pressed curds pickling in bowls of strong brine (pickle) in the home of Mrs. M. E. Scott, West Stonesdale ( Swaledale). The curd will be left in this strong pickle for two or three days. Mrs. Scott po...
Dialect recording in Belford, Northumberland
Orton, Harold (1898-1975)
18 Jul 1938
[Side 1] Willie and Leslie recall cooking 'poddish' [= porridge], memories of route march day after drinking too much beer, distaste for potted meat. [Side 2] Andrew and Willie discuss plans for Belfo...
West Midlands Responses: Book V, Part 7
[1960s]
Collated responses from the West Midland counties to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book V, Part 7: Cooking. Includes questions V.7.1 Porridge - V.7.12 Pod.
West Midlands Responses: Book V, Part 8
[1960s]
Collated responses from the West Midland counties to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Book V, Part 8: Eating and Drinking. Includes questions V.8.1 Drinking - V.8.8 To Pour.
West Midlands Responses: Book V, Part 8
[1960s]
Collated responses from the West Midland counties to Survey of English Dialects (SED) questions from Boom V, Part 8: Eating and Drinking. Includes questions V.8.9 To Brew - V.8.16 Anything (Left).
Sound Recording, [Norway]
Calvert, Valerie E
1961
[Announcement: results of a questionnaire issued by the Norsk Ethnological Institute]; male discusses Easter food and eggs in Norway - relates findings of survey - customary practices, egg consumption...
Hunting, Shooting, and Trapping
1973
This subseries, comprising one file only, includes an ms. diagram and notes on an animal trap seen at Stokesley, North Yorkshire, 27 October 1973, by Tony Green; David Cleveland's article on punt-gunn...
Dialect recording in Waterhead, Lancashire
Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)
26 Nov 1952
[Side 1] Mrs. Schofield explains how to make oven bottom muffins, discusses typical weekly diet in past, describes recipe for Lancashire hotpot. [Side 2] Mrs. Schofield talks about father keeping pig,...
Dresser (Furniture)
Sanderson, Stewart (1924-)
Summer 1958
Wooden dresser in a deserted farmhouse near Gainslaw Hill (Northumberland). The dresser had been removed from the farmhouse by the summer of 1959. Mounted on Photo File card. With typed note.
"Gypsy Mother and Child"
Hucklebridge, John
1968
Mrs. Light and one of the Light family sons, sitting on the roadside at an unknown location in Wiltshire. A kettle hangs over a small fire on a long metal hook which has been rooted in the ground. Mou...