Cookery Book 1957
Extracts from a cookery book produced for Armagh Circuit in 1957. It contains helpful hints on how to keep your laundry white, recipes for cakes and savouries as well as advertisements from local businesses. It was one of a series of cookery books published free of cost to the church with the comment that 'help given to the advertisers is appreciated and readers are invited to recognise this assistance by supporting them whenever possible.' The result is an interesting source of useful information for the household. It also provides us with a glimpse of domestic life in Armagh in the 1950s.
Helpful Hints
The minister of the Circuit at the time was Rev W E Morley Thompson. He was born in 1894 and died in 1969. Rev Morley Thompson was minister of Armagh Circuit from July 1955 to June 1959. He also served as President of the Methodist Church in Ireland in 1948-49.
The Advertisers
The advertisers were:
Bustard Bros, Footwear and shoe repairs
Mrs Greer, ladies outfitting and millinery
George Kennedy, groceries and provisions
R Ballantine, flesher and poulterer
Charlemont Arms Hotel, Armagh
Fane Valley Co-op Society, dairy co-operative
Victor McMullen, electrical appliances
Adam Wilson, clothing and household goods
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This might be one of the most amusing adverts for Adam Wilson & Co who sold ladies, gents and children's clothing. It says:
'Adam started the clothing business with a fig leaf.'
Recipes
