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Mom’s Home Cooking
Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our Mom’s homemade rusks or favourite chicken dish, food has a was of transporting us back to the past.
I decided to put this book together to help us remember her where she seemed to be happiest – in the kitchen cooking for the family. Mom enjoyed meeting people, especially if they had an interest in food, sharing ideas and recipes with them, and this book is proof of that.Sharon Tennant
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Recipes from a Mother’s Heart
René Walker is an Afrikaner child of the Eastern Cape, born, raised and educated in Port Elizabeth. Her earliest memories are of her mother cooking boerekos, and even then, she had a discerning palate, which her mother called “fiemies”, which would stand her in good stead in later life.
After a lifetime dedicated to cooking and catering, René has produced a colourful, family-orientated little recipe book, filled with a diverse collection of great recipes which both reflect her love for cooking and her joy in providing good food for her family, friends and clients.
The recipes are an eclectic fusion of good, solid traditional fare and modern dietary and health needs and influences. Her love for family and the satisfaction she gains from cooking for them is reflected in little comments throughout the book, such as “Steven’s best”, and “David’s favourite”. There are also personal little tips and hints throughout the book, which gives it an intimate, family feel.
This special book will, in René’s words, “inspire you and enable you to rejoice with us on our loving journey through the creation of fine food”. -
Recipes from Bechuanaland
This book is the REPRODUCTION & REPRINT of an iconic and highly popular (in its day) recipe book, produced in the early 1960s by the Women’s Institute of Francistown in the then Bechuanaland Protectorate as a fundraiser for their charitable projects.
It was reproduced by Write-On Publishing at the suggestion of members of the Historical Francistown Facebook page – a closed Facebook group whose members have lived, worked in or went to school in Francistown. And that includes Write-On’s Frank Nunan!
The book’s 144 pages are crammed full of an eclectic mix of good old “home cooking” recipes like “Chicken Casserole” to sophisticated Haute Cuisine dishes such as “Tourte de Pintade a la Hongrosie”, and going on to such home-grown specialities such as “Madila” (sour milk).
it has an “On Safari” section, with game (venison) recipes for the three-legged pot, and a section on Cooking for Invalids and Convalescents,
It also has a handy “hints” chapter with all sorts of household tips.
This is one of my favourites:
White suits: To disguise a last-minute dirty mark on a white drill suit eg. Queen’s Birthday Parade! Use white shoe cleaner.
It also has a Chapter called “Be Your Own Drycleaner!”
A must for Francistown (and Botswana) nostalgia buffs as well as current residents.
