An English holiday with car and camera . ated oven from which it had beendrawn. The crust was neither tough nor rocky, butcrisp and fragrant. Cooking has become almost a lost art in England;yet, according to Macaulay, confirmed by Dr. Johnsonand numerous other writers, at the old Englishtavern the very choicest cookery obtained. InQueen Elizabeths days William Harrison declaredthat there is nothing on the Continent to comparewith the plenty and comfort of our great Englishhostelries; nowhere is there such cooking, suchexcellent food. Nowadays, alas, the conditionsare reversed, though, of late,
An English holiday with car and camera . ated oven from which it had beendrawn. The crust was neither tough nor rocky, butcrisp and fragrant. Cooking has become almost a lost art in England;yet, according to Macaulay, confirmed by Dr. Johnsonand numerous other writers, at the old Englishtavern the very choicest cookery obtained. InQueen Elizabeths days William Harrison declaredthat there is nothing on the Continent to comparewith the plenty and comfort of our great Englishhostelries; nowhere is there such cooking, suchexcellent food. Nowadays, alas, the conditionsare reversed, though, of late, matters are improving,for I know of a few old country inns where the fare,though simple, is of the best, and you may enjoy thewine without the dread of gout. We took a photograph of that old cottage, herereproduced, showing the old-fashioned primitiveoven projecting externally and roofed over withstone slats. It may be observed just below thechimney to the left of the building. Some day,perchance, like many another, it will be improved. AO X A CURIOUS DISCOVERY 165 away, and a modern, more economical, less trouble-some but food-spoiling range established in its is to-day a common complaint; I believethat the modern range and indifferent cooking havemuch to do with the evil. There is a proverb thatruns, God sends us meat, the devil sends uscooks ; and I should like to add cooking-ranges! A curious incident was related to us in connectionwith one of these ovens wherein a certain countrybaker baked his bread contentedly for years, and tothe satisfaction of his customers, as his father haddone before him. It appears, however, that at oneperiod occasionally a loaf was delivered bearing onthe bottom of it the strange legend, Aged , that any baker should brand his bread assixty-nine years old is an incomprehensible thing,unless, as the village gossips whispered, the manmust have gone mad! Eventually the mysterywas solved. The oven had been repaired by thelocal
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