Nan's Fish Batter
My Nan was a fantastic cook and housekeeper who worked hard all of her life. Always in motion, and if you wanted to talk to her you had to follow her around as she never let up was always doing something. Even when she was in the house there was always baking, sewing, knitting, making wine, making Christmas cakes, preserving food in bottles, jams, for the freezer. Not only did she do all this she worked full time at the local Junior School until it moved full time as the School Cook as well as doing service at the local Church (St Clements) Nevin the property that my grandad and her owned in Fiskerton just outside of Lincoln was mostly set to food of some kind or another. They lived in the village for over 60 years. The garden (2 acres) was mostly set to Orchards but also livestock chickens and pigs and lots of vegetables, bees and soft fruit. She also made the most of the wild larder and during the war years my Dad used to go out catching Rabbits to fill the pot...