Vintage Glory!

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.

Tony Visconti

I think I've mentioned a few times my great love affair with vintage doodads (don't you just love that word?) and this doesn't cease when it comes to my kitchen.

One day, I dream of having a 1950's inspired kitchen, with raised counter tops just like Julia Child had because I happen to be a bit taller than the standard counter accommodates. I want a lovely old Libra cast iron scales. My mam has these and I adore them so much, sure they aren't as accurate as the modern digital ones but isn't that some of the charm?

I also dream of a gorgeous 6 burner stove, oh how I'd bake the hell out of one of those babies!

If this were a 6 burner I would be in heaven!

Even the aprons I adore, I personally think they looked better and covered better, after all - isn't that their purpose anyway?

Obviously this kitchen of mine is still a dream, for now at least, but I do have some cute little knick knacks already stashed away waiting for the day when we have our very own place and I can go nuts in the kitchen! For an example (and one I'm very proud of) of my knick knacks, here's my salt and pepper shakers...well not my actual ones, but I have the exact same set :)

Aren't they adorable?

I know, I know, I'm making you all jealous so I won't put any more examples up or tell you how devilishly difficult it was to source them or the good deal I got on them when I did find them...Ok! You bent my arm! It was £15! How good was that?!

Anyway, I digress, my main point of this article is to ask if I should post more vintage recipes on here? What do you guys think? And also to tell you I have started another blog Vintage Daub to get some of my addiction out of my system. I hope that you go check it out and look out for the vintage kitchen paraphernalia reviews and tips!

Happy Baking!

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Freedom to bake!!

Yes! I am free again to bake! Yesterday was my last diet day (for now) and I have to say a big thank-you to everyone who has been giving me encouragement and keeping their fingers crossed for me. It worked for sure! 3 big fat kgs are gone! Woohoo! :D

I start the evil (but working!) diet again on Monday, let's hope I lose the same amount again.

Right, back to the much more interesting task at hand.
In my absence from baking we had a slight hiccup - our oven broke...well actually it was that the socket it was plugged into started to smoke, not good.

Thankfully our lovely landlord soon had it fixed but it did get me thinking of different ways to cook my creations.

Now I'm not one for boiled cakes or other baked goods (not that I'm knocking them but really how can a 'baked' anything taste good being boiled? The clue is in the name haha) so how else to cook biscuits/cookies?

Well we have a toaster oven and a microwave so lets find out shall we?

I was going to have fun playing with the notion today until my lovely fiancé said he's taking me to see a movie and to go to a restaurant tonight (after taking our little Nalu to the vets of course) so I'm afraid I'll have to refrain from that type of fun until tomorrow so I can have fun with my man instead...I'm sure you all understand :)

*Random thought time: imagine what baking would have been like before we had temperature controlled ovens? Interesting to say the least* 😉

I'll post a well loved recipe today and my experiment tomorrow.

Happy baking!