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"Fire is elemental and primitive,
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"the most miserable situation clears up when somebody gets the fire going.
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"It should be lit, burn up and boil a kettle within 20 minutes."
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Well, it's taken me a bit longer than 20 minutes
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but I didn't write those words.
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They come from Food In England,
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published in 1954 by Dorothy Hartley
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and I use this book the whole time
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in my work as a historian and a curator. It's just brilliant.
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It's packed full of the most extraordinary, intriguing,
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fascinating little things you didn't know about history.
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Food In England was the product of more than 30 years of research.
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Its 600 pages are fabulously well-written.
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They describe how food and kitchen utensils and cooking techniques
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were central to the lives of every single person in Britain,
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rich and poor.
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And the book's also full of Dorothy's own lively illustrations.
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I've been a big fan of Dorothy Hartley's best-known book
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for a long time
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but I have to admit I don't know much about the woman herself.
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In this programme, I'm hoping to find out
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who this elusive and eccentric author really was,
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and what she achieved in her life.
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To do this, I'm going to meet some of her many and fervent admirers.
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Look at all the detail, it's just so remarkable.
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- Don't tell anybody this, will you?
- LUCY LAUGHS
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I forged her signature and posted it off.
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THEY BOTH LAUGH
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- Let's go!
- ALL: Yes!
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I'm going to recreate parts of the lost world
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she describes so well in Food In England.
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Oh, he's opened his little eyelid!
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Oops!
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BLEATING
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I haven't finished, come back!
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And I'm going to follow in her footsteps, from the Yorkshire Dales,
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all across the Midlands to her final home on the borders of Wales.
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I can't promise you
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that I'm going to sleep in the hedgerows like she did,
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but I AM determined to discover who she was,
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why she wrote this book and to pinpoint
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just how big a contribution it makes to the history of what we eat.
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Food In England is a treasure trove, it's a reference book
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but also a thoroughly good read.
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It ranges from Saxon cooking, to the Industrial Revolution
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with chapters on everything from seaweed to salt.
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But to me, it's not a conventional history book.
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It hasn't got proper references to source material or footnotes
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and historians like me worry about things like that.
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Does this really matter, though, when the heat's on in the kitchen?
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I'd like to know what cooks think about Dorothy Hartley.
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To find out, I've come to ask the award-winning chef
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and food writer, Rowley Leigh.
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I'm interested in Food In England because of what it tells us
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about the history of food, but what interests you in it as a chef?
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I love her concentration on what the food means.
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Not in terms of mythology but in its place in the culture and...
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When she talks about mutton, for example,
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she talks about half a dozen different types of mutton,
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when they're at their best, where they come from, what they feed on,
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what gives them a different flavour.
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And the cooking element is just how to exploit that.
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What sort of impression has Dorothy Hartley made on you
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and your cooking?
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I think she's reinforced, really, my ideas about food.
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I bang on about seasonality and context.
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I want to eat asparagus in May, for example,
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not because that's the best asparagus - although it is -
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not just because it's English and not French - although it is -
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I want to eat it then because that's when it feels right
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as part of that rhythm. It's spring, it's a shoot
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and it comes after the deprivations of Lent and everything else.
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It's that celebration.
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If you have asparagus at Christmas, you've just lost that.
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You know, that's an integral part of her thinking, I think.
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Rowley is demonstrating that very principle.
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He's cooking two dishes that Dorothy reckons are perfect in spring -
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red mullet and roast duck with fresh peas.
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- Phwoar, it's pretty hot.
- It's quite warm.
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What I like is although this is a hugely hi-tech thing, actually,
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Dorothy shows a picture of meat
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- being roasted in exactly the same way.
- Absolutely.
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- With a vertical wall of flame.
- This is what roasting means.
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When people put something in an oven, it's sort of baking with steam.
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This is proper, old-fashioned roasting,
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where it's only cooking in its own fat,
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you just get the flavour of the meat itself on an open fire.
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The duck will take another hour but the mullet's ready.
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Wrapped in paper with butter and seasoning
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and baked whole for just 30 minutes. Dead simple.
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- Do you want to give it a go?
- Yes, please.
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Wow, that's really salty and anchovy-like. Bleurgh!
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That's not what I was expecting at all.
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Mmm, that is super-delish.
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- And you did hardly anything to it at all?
- I've done nothing, yes.
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It's a respectful way to treat a beautiful fish.
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- Absolutely.
- Yes.
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What would you say to Dorothy Hartley
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if she were to walk into the room now?
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"Have some of the mullet, lass."
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Ha! Very good.
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"Please consider this book as an old-fashioned kitchen,
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"not impressive, but a warm, friendly place,
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"where one can come in any time and have a chat with the cook."
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This book is an amazing treasure trove of information.
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Not only history,
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but tradition and anthropology and culture in society.
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And it's also a book about Dorothy herself.
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It's quite autobiographical.
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Here is a picture of her own grandfather's egg cosy,
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with its knitted pom-pom on top.
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She said it was "just like a woolly nightcap."
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"The breakfast egg was a Victorian institution.
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"Really nice homely families kept their eggs coddled in hot water
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"under a china hen."
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"According to superstition, empty eggshells
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"should always be broken up, lest witches make boats thereof."
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The first chapter is her memory of all the different kitchens
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that she's used throughout her lifetime.
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The earliest of them are in Yorkshire.
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She was born in Skipton, so that's where I'm off to now.
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Skipton is a busy market town
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at the southern end of the Yorkshire Dales.
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The Hartley family were based just up the hill from here.
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But they didn't live in an ordinary house.
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This is the place where Dorothy was born.
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It's a pretty gloomy and austere-looking place
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for a little girl to grow up.
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It was and it is the local boy's grammar school.
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Her father was the headmaster.
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He came here in 1876,
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and his third child, Dorothy, was born in 1893,
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probably in his own private rooms, part of the main school building.
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Today, some of the boys are going to have a go at recipes
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Dorothy would have eaten here at the school in the 1890s.
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And, at lunchtime,
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'the rest of the pupils are going to try what they've made.
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To be honest, I'm not sure how well it's going to go down.
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- What are you going to be making?
- We're making stargazy pie.
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Now, what is that? People won't know what it is.
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It's basically herring pie,
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but you've got the herring heads sticking out the sides.
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The heads are sticking out.
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- Do you think this is going to go down well in the canteen?
- No.
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Go!
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'All these recipes come from Food In England.'
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- I think it'll taste better than it looks.
- I think you're right.
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'The desserts are oatmeal pudding...
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'..and that's semolina.
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'That's mutton broth made of sheep's' bones,
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'a staple here in Dorothy's day.
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'And this is the dough for Yorkshire teacakes.'
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'And finally, stargazy pie.'
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Why do you leave the heads on them?
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- If we cut them off and we cook them, we'll lose all the oil.
- OK.
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That's what it's going to look like.
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While the students are cooking,
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I'm going to find out what late Victorian life was like
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at the school for Dorothy and her family.
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So this room that we're in, now it's the library,
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it used to be The Big School, it's called in 1896,
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What went on in here? Is it a big classroom?
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Yes, it's really the main teaching room.
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How many boys are we talking about?
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You're talking about 80 boys overall, of whom about...
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never more than 30 in this period would've been boarders.
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So here is Dr Hartley, the headmaster,
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Mrs Hartley, the Hartley kids
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and that's little Dorothy there.
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What sort of a man was he?
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He looks very respectable here in his mortarboard.
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Yes, you have to remember
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the headmaster of the grammar school had a real status.
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It was a minor squirearchy, so there was that sort of distance
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and respect, in a way.
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I have to say, Dorothy, in all these pictures, looks a little bit grumpy.
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- Yes.
- Would you like to share your childhood home with 80 boys?
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- I'm not sure I would.
- I don't think so, I don't think so.
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Dorothy's mother, Mrs Hartley,
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she was involved in the running of the school, wasn't she?
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She was, I think pretty well the sole runner of the school.
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There's nobody but a matron, which they can't always afford,
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- plus a sort of odd-job man...
- Oh.
- You see.
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So, Mrs Hartley, she's essentially the head of catering.
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I think she's probably the only caterer, really, most of the time.
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- Oh, golly.
- From the finances,
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I can't see how it could've been run in any other way
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without her doing almost all the work herself.
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Producing food for 80 boys.
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And this made an impression on Dorothy. She remembers it.
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She describes the school kitchen here.
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She said it was "masculine and enterprising."
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I guess they had to be enterprising to feed all of those boys.
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She talks about home-made bread,
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"Rising each week in a huge tub set before the fire."
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And, "Piles of Yorkshire teacakes came daily from the baker."
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DOROTHY: "It was here that I first realised
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"the specialities of England...
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"bilberries from the mountains in leaking purple crates.
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"From the east coast, came barrels of herrings.
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"Oxfordshire sent crates of wonderful fruit.
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"From the north, came sacks of oatmeal."
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Roll up, roll up, get some stargazy pie.
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Fish heads! Fish tails! Herrings!
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- Do you have to eat the head and the tail?
- No, you're not,
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but they're there to give it extra flavour.
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OK, can I have a bit, please?
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Which one would you like, sir?
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I don't even like fish!
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Get some stargazy pie.
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- Can I have some of that?
- Get it whilst it's warm.
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- Going to eat it all? Promise?
- Yes.
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'They'll eat anything you put out for them.'
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They like to come to school, have a bacon sandwich
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and then, at break time, they come out with big slices of pizza,
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then they come and have big bowls of pasta and home-made cake.
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And then they go home and eat again.
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Imagine Mrs Hartley, then, the headmaster's wife,
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catering for 80 growing boys. How did she do it?
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I don't know.
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She must have worked from five in the morning till ten at night.
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It's nice.
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Yeah, it's nice.
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Normal food's nicer.
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Normal food is nicer. Oh, OK.
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Verdict on the semolina?
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- Good.
- Good.
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THE BOYS CHATTER
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The Hartleys ate pretty well at the school.
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Not so, people in the poorer farming communities nearby.
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'In Food In England, Dorothy writes of families in the Dales,
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'whose diet depended on what they could produce
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'from the land around them.'
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'If you came here 100 years ago,
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'you would've seen a different sort of farming.'
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It would've been more of a mixed farming.
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There would've been sheep and cattle,
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but there would've also been crops, particularly oats
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and a variety of barley that does well at this altitude called bigg.
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You're about 800 feet above sea level here.
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Wheat is just not going to succeed.
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Most villages were surrounded with oat fields.
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Mmm. It's kind of got more boring, in a way, hasn't it?
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Well, we had to be self-sufficient and, of course, we aren't any longer.
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- Yes, no, no.
- And that's really what this sort of food was about, really.
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- Self-sufficiency.
- Yes.
- Northern grit.
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Survival.
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'Dorothy visited the Dales regularly as a child.
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'Later, she described how oats
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'were the basic ingredient of meals up here.'
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Oatcake and porridge were the two staples of this region
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and every farmhouse, every village,
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every area developed their own ways of making various oatcakes.
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They often went by their Norse name,
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they were sometimes called "haver-carke," or "have-a-cake."
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Does it not mean, "Have a cake, help yourself"?
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No. The word "hafer," or "haver," is a Norse word meaning oats,
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so haversack is a bag for putting your oats in.
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Ah, so it is.
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- I've already made some batter.
- Batter. What's in the batter?
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It's a mixture of very, very fine sifted oatmeal,
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milk, water, a little bit of salt and some yeast.
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- Easy-peasy then?
- Yeah. If you bring the bowl over
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and get as close as you can without burning yourself...
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OK? I'm going to ladle that on to the girdle like that.
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And I get the scraper and I...
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go like that with it.
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There you go. We just let that cook.
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This is really food that has absolutely vanished and disappeared.
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You dip it in your soup, for your evening meal,
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you'd wrap up cheese in it.
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It's very nice. Really good stuff. Well worth reviving, I think.
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- Don't burn yourself.
- Thank you.
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Yes, that's it. Use your fingers. That's it, perfect.
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- OK? Shall I hang that up for you?
- Er, I can do it.
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- Ooh!
- Brilliant.
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What do you think of Dorothy Hartley?
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Where does she fit into the history of food for you?
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Dorothy is part of a group of people who started to actively
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try to investigate disappearing customs.
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People like Cecil Sharp, who was collecting folk songs
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and folk dances in the early 20th century.
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There was also a contemporary of Dorothy Hartley called Florence White
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who was a founding member of the English Folk Cookery Association
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and I think all of them realised they were living at a time
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when rural customs were vanishing rapidly.
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And I think the whole point of their activities
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was to try and record these things before they entirely disappeared.
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- That's what's really valuable, her work as an oral historian.
- Yes.
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That's the richest part of the book,
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is where she actually talks to a ploughman or a shepherd.
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It's when you hear the voice of a lady
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who's describing how she scrapes the bristles off her pig
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after she's killed it with a candlestick, you know.
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It's that kind of thing that's so marvellous about it.
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- That is the best bit of the book.
- That's the world we have lost.
- Yes.
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DOROTHY: "In old-fashioned country houses,
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"no housemaid's box was complete without a couple of goose pinions.
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"Those strong, firm plumes which were so excellent for dusting ledges.
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"A stiff, trimmed goose pinion is also kept by the lady's maid
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"for taking the dust from velvet."
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SHEEP BLEAT
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Dorothy remembered the Yorkshire Dales
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from her very earliest childhood.
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But, at the start of the 20th century,
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she and her family moved down to the warmer landscape of the Midlands.
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By 1904, Edward Hartley was losing his eyesight.
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He had to give up his job
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as headmaster of the boy's school in Skipton.
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Instead, he became a rector in Rempstone in Nottinghamshire -
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quite a small parish - and the family moved south.
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They ended up living here,
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in this Elizabethan, rambling, impressive house.
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And this is only the back!
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DOROTHY: "A lovely old house, with every medieval inconvenience.
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"The nearest shop was five miles away and we had no car.
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"A butcher called once a week. A grocer, once a fortnight."
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'Dorothy was 11 years old when her family arrived here.
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'And now she had a room of her own at the top of the house.'
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"It was a double turn of wooden stairs
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"and a low door into a little room
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"and a second door up wooden steps to a further attic.
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"The old thatch was rotting and full of birds' nests
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"and there, crouched and cold, I worked from dawn.
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"I loved that room.
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"It was my citadel against all the hard work of long days
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"and, in it, I wrote my first book and got my Master's art degree."
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So this is the very place that Dorothy would work,
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between dawn and the time she had to leave to go to art school
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and she used to feed the starlings out of the window here.
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And we know that for a fact,
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because, many years later, she wrote letters about it.
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Do you think she's being a bit melodramatic here
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when she talks about how the old thatch
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was rotting up there in the attic?
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- No, because it was very much like that when I bought it!
- Oh, OK.
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It wasn't thatched, but..
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'Felicity Fletcher-Wilson bought the rectory in 1999
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'and, during renovations, she discovered a secret stash
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'of Dorothy's letters, written to the previous owner.'
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What's great about these letters is that they're very personal,
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they're her reminiscences about her life.
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I think that's what's nice about them,
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because you read in the book about the house,
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and it doesn't mention the name or anything,
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but you can put the letters to the book
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and come out with a completely different story
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and something that's very, very personal, actually.
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I like the description of how she prepares her workroom.
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She scrubbed the oak beams in the wall with hot vinegar.
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It's not what you'd expect a teenager to be doing -
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- scrubbing old beams with hot vinegar.
- No, not at all.
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Dorothy quickly became a professional artist, didn't she?
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I think, at this time, she was already doing artwork.
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I found some illustrations of Dorothy's
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in a book by Geoffrey Henslow.
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And there are some 90-odd illustrations in here,
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which goes to show what a busy girl she was.
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They seem to just set up all the things
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that she's going to be interested in.
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There's a real attention to historical costume,
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- and also there's a lot of landscapes and countryside.
- Yes, there are.
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These are just the things that captured her imagination.
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Now, this letter's really interesting because it's about food.
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We've got a sort of edible history of Edwardian Rempstone village here.
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Yes, we have.
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I really like the fact that, in the cottages,
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she says people don't have scales and they can't write.
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So when she says "How much of that?"
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They say, "About as much as Jim could eat at a meal"!
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"That much!"
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"After the bleak North,
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"everything in the Midlands seemed warm, rich and ripe.
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"The mutton was fat, the cakes full of eggs,
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"and, in September, we made wonderful wines and jams and rich preserves."
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By comparison with life in Yorkshire,
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this village must have seemed like a living larder, really.
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There's just so much food here.
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And so much of it.
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Just behind there were the pigsties, where Dorothy's pigs lived,
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and they must have eaten these pears off this tree above me.
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'Like sensible thrifty country people,
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'the Hartleys wasted nothing when their pig was killed.
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'Including his head!'
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Follow the cut down the middle and split the head into two pieces...
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'I'm helping pig keeper Tom to make a kind of pate called brawn,'
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'in Dorothy's kitchen and using her own recipe.'
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- SAW SCRAPES BONE
- Oooh!
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Did you feel that against the bone?
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I shouldn't have thought about cutting someone's leg off!
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- I think you're going to have to give a demo.
- Right, I'll give it a try.
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Going a little bit off course.
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Yeah, it's not going down the middle, is it?
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Should be OK, though. It's all going to end up in the same place.
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That's it.
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Yay! Well done! Look at that.
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- I think I think we've got it.
- Oh, look at his teeth!
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Look at his brain!
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This bowl here, we'll put all the nasty bits in
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like tongue, brain, eyeballs. Things like that.
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Got to get the eye out next.
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Best way to do that is if you feel around,
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you can sort of feel an eye cavity...?
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- Round the bone.
- Oh, he's opened his little eyelid!
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Put the knife in and follow the bone all the way around.
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Try and cut underneath the eyeball,
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so you take the eyelid and everything out from underneath.
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Oh, my goodness, that is so frightening and horrible!
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There we are. Very good.
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Oh!
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This is a curious mixture of disgusting and wonderful.
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This seems like a really horrible, alien, strange experience.
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But I suppose that, as modern people, we're the odd ones out,
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we're the ones who aren't familiar...
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Ooh, there's his eye! ..with this.
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But, for centuries, people would have just been used to doing this.
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They would've been.
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I think we've become quite detached in recent years
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from how our food is prepared, made and where it comes from.
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Killing the pig in the autumn, everybody did it?
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Yes, everyone would club together,
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and they'd have a pig processed in a day.
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They'd do all the brawn, all the butchery, make sausages, cure bacon.
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Everyone would club together and get it done really quite quickly.
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So we boiled it for a couple of hours and then let it cool down.
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And now we're picking off all the meaty bits.
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I'm an natural scavenger.
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There's something brilliant
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about finding something that others have overlooked.
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And then we're going to pour in that leftover stock,
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and then, as it cools, it will form a solid jelly.
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- Then we'll be able to make it into slices.
- Yes.
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Then eat it - with mustard, very important. Must be with mustard.
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That's what Dorothy says.
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So I'm pouring in the stock. How long do we have to leave it?
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I'd want to leave it in a cool place overnight for it to set firmly,
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and then it'll be something nice to have for lunch tomorrow.
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- It has set into a proper glistening jelly, hasn't it?
- It has, yes.
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For you...
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Now, I'm really torn. I'm actually quite hungry. It smells nice.
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Mmm... That's all good!
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But what's flashing into my mind
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- is cutting out the pig's eye with the knife.
- Really?
- Yeah.
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I think the best thing is to give it a try and see what it ends up like.
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That's not bad. The mustard certainly helps.
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Mmm, I quite like that.
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- I've overdone the English mustard!
- THEY BOTH LAUGH
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- You're wolfing it down here.
- It's quite nice. I'm quite enjoying it.
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I'm sorry, I don't like it.
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That's all right.
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I'm sorry to say, I think it's really disgusting!
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I've done my best to try and like it.
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Why doesn't anybody eat brawn these days(?)
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- There are reasons - it tastes awful.
- LUCY LAUGHS
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Dorothy left the rectory in the early 1920s, and moved to London.
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The capital gave her room to develop her talents as an artist and writer.
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She gave art lessons at Regent Street Polytechnic,
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but spent her spare time in the British Museum.
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She was exploring the whole world of medieval England.
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I've come to meet the food writer and journalist Adrian Bailey,
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who met Dorothy in the late 1960s.
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I'm hoping he can shed some light
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on her fascination with medieval history.
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Dorothy's father was a Chaucerian
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and that was very likely where Dorothy's interest
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in the medieval world and the 14th century came from.
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What was she really like?
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She was very hospitable, quite funny,
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very elegant, in fact.
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She used to write to me and she would sign it,
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"Yours truly, D Hartley (Miss)"
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Just to establish the fact
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that here was a spinster you don't mess around with.
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SHE LAUGHS
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She was extraordinary.
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But some of these papers ARE old love letters.
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They contain clues about one quite serious relationship
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with a man called Mickey.
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He, though, was a heavy-drinking, elusive loner,
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who worked as a ranger in Africa.
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Marriage was never on the cards and he died young.
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He says, "I will never settle now
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"and the next time I go home back to England,
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"I shall wander all over the British Isles with a toothbrush."
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..which is what she would do.
486
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:49,160
Which is what she would do, so they're two of a type, really.
487
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:50,320
Absolutely, yes.
488
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,880
I think that, deep down in her heart,
489
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:56,200
she didn't really want to be married.
490
00:28:56,200 --> 00:29:00,160
She didn't have time for a domestic life.
491
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,360
She fought off proposals.
492
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:04,640
There was one Mr Barham.
493
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:07,800
- He proposed to her by letter...
- Mm-hmm?
494
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:15,080
..and she replied with a long discourse on Viking burial customs
495
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,880
and said, "That'll see him off."
496
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:21,000
- She put him off with the Viking burial customs?
- Yes.
497
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,640
- That's one way of doing it.
- That was typical of her.
498
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:27,320
I rang her one day and she picked up the phone and,
499
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:29,080
without asking who it was, said,
500
00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,680
"Can't talk to you now, I'm in the 14th century,"
501
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:35,240
and put the phone down. It could have been anybody.
502
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:37,840
But that was her, she was like that.
503
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:42,440
Somebody that had a great love for what she did
504
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,960
and she wanted to convey that to her readers
505
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:50,720
and greatly succeeded, because here we have Food In England.
506
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,680
What's your opinion of the importance of this book?
507
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:58,200
It is the product of a lifetime's experience.
508
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,040
It is a history book. It isn't a cookery book.
509
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:05,080
And she goes back in history to the Victorian period
510
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,560
and then back through to the...
511
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:11,800
ending up in the Tudor world, which she loved.
512
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:20,960
Dorothy's engagement with history bore fruit in 1925,
513
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:22,880
when she published her first book -
514
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,440
Life And Work Of The Peoples Of England.
515
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,320
While researching it, she came across a writer
516
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,800
who was to have a profound influence on her life...
517
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:44,600
..a Tudor farmer and poet called Thomas Tusser.
518
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:01,600
Thomas Tusser keeps cropping up in Food In England.
519
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,080
Dorothy was clearly very interested in him.
520
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,760
He spent his life in 16th-century Suffolk
521
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:08,720
and she tracked him down there.
522
00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:13,640
This photo shows her standing up to her ankles in a bog
523
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:15,480
and it says on the back,
524
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:18,240
"Me on Tusser's marsh."
525
00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:20,520
Well, I think I need to visit Tusser's marsh
526
00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:22,120
and Tusser's landscape
527
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:25,600
to see what they might tell us about Dorothy herself.
528
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:42,240
This is the spot, in what's known today as Constable Country,
529
00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:44,720
where Thomas Tusser's house once stood.
530
00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:49,080
He was born in Rivenhall in Essex in about 1524.
531
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,640
A Hundred Good Points Of Husbandry
532
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,920
is his rhyming book about agriculture.
533
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,920
HE GEES THE HORSES
534
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:33,840
Good lads. Right...
535
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:35,920
'Tusser was one of the first writers
536
00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,320
'to record the experience of ordinary tenant farmers.'
537
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,360
Are you going to go each side of the sticks?
538
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,200
Yeah, those should straddle. Get up!
539
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:47,160
'Suffolk farmer Roger Clark works land very near to Tusser's farm
540
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:50,520
'and does it in a way that Tusser would have recognised
541
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:52,640
'five centuries ago.'
542
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,280
Tell me a bit about Suffolk Punches, then,
543
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,760
these enormous horses. Are they especially for ploughing?
544
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,680
Yeah, because if you look at the legs
545
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:03,840
and you compare them with the Shire Horse,
546
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,640
which has a mass of feather, you'll see how clean they've kept
547
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,520
and that's why we call them clean-legged.
548
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:10,800
So the Shires get all muddy when they go up and down,
549
00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:12,080
and that's no good?
550
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,400
The Suffolk Horse was bred as the...
551
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:18,200
Well, the perfect agricultural horse.
552
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:19,920
- He is a human tractor.
- Yeah.
553
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:22,400
Not a human tractor, an EQUINE tractor.
554
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:23,800
Absolutely, yeah.
555
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:28,560
I have the oldest recorded pedigree, bar the thoroughbred.
556
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,080
- Going back to...
- 1750.
- Wow!
557
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,920
I've always tried to keep Suffolk Horses,
558
00:33:33,920 --> 00:33:36,200
because they are an endangered species.
559
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:39,280
In fact, there's more giant pandas about than there are Suffolk Horses.
560
00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:40,880
- No, really?
- Yeah.
561
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:42,200
But not only, I think,
562
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,040
it's important to maintain the horse as a breed,
563
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:47,720
but to maintain the skills that went with it.
564
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:49,640
I can see that this is an art.
565
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,440
Yes, yes, and it would be tragic if all these things -
566
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,720
like ploughing, like harness making and all things like that -
567
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:57,320
were finished.
568
00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,080
Thomas Tusser was ploughing with oxen.
569
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,640
How do you think that would have worked?
570
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:04,560
Well, you'd...
571
00:34:04,560 --> 00:34:06,800
As I can see it, you had the oxen,
572
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,880
but you also had a boy with a sharp stick to poke them along.
573
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:11,480
To poke them along?
574
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:13,040
With these, you don't need that.
575
00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:14,680
THEY LAUGH
576
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:19,960
Tusser tells us, "Look well to thy horses in the stable, thou must.
577
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:24,720
"Let not your hay be foisty or your chaff full of dust,
578
00:34:24,720 --> 00:34:29,320
"nor stone in their provender or feathers or clots,
579
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:33,200
"nor feed with green peason for the breeding of bots."
580
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,280
So, don't let the hay be foisty...
581
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:36,960
..which was mouldy.
582
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,400
- He doesn't eat foisty hay.
- No, he certainly doesn't.
583
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:43,240
- No stones in the food.
- No. No dust in the...
- No dust.
584
00:34:43,240 --> 00:34:46,720
- What are bots?
- Bots is the larvae of a gadfly...
- Ah!
585
00:34:46,720 --> 00:34:49,280
..and they attach themselves to the stomach
586
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:51,040
and then they come out through the skin.
587
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:53,360
I mean, today, we worm horses in November,
588
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,880
because that gets rid of the bot larvae.
589
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:59,360
- Now, I'm worried about Jester getting cold.
- That's it.
590
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,640
- Do we need to warm up, do a bit more?
- Yeah, well done.
- Right, OK.
591
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,160
HE GEES THE HORSES
592
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,240
Having visited Thomas Tusser's home and learnt a bit more about him,
593
00:35:26,240 --> 00:35:29,560
I can see why Dorothy was so attracted to him.
594
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:31,880
He was like the Tudor version of her.
595
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:37,360
In 1931, Dorothy published her edition of Thomas Tusser's poem,
596
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:41,000
it's called Thomas Tusser And His Farming In East Anglia.
597
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,320
Both of them were interested in crops and the land
598
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,480
and seasons and how things were done
599
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,920
and both of them had the ability to express it
600
00:35:48,920 --> 00:35:51,480
in really simple language.
601
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:59,160
Dorothy clearly shared Tusser's interest in everyday things,
602
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:03,200
and she did probe really deeply into his life and work.
603
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:09,000
I'm beginning to realise her research into Tusser's world
604
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,280
shows that despite my earlier misgivings,
605
00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:14,560
she really was becoming a serious historian.
606
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,480
In the 1930s, she travelled the country,
607
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,880
documenting and illustrating rural ways of life
608
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:30,680
in three books and a regular column for the Daily Sketch newspaper.
609
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:36,320
I've come to visit someone who's spent many years
610
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:39,520
researching this period of Dorothy's life -
611
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,960
the potter and artist Mary Wondrausch.
612
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:46,880
And she's making me lunch.
613
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:52,280
We're not cooking it, because it's already been smoked,
614
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:56,920
and that is in a sense cooking it.
615
00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:00,840
- How do I get it out, like this?
- No, you don't.
616
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:02,840
No, there's a trick.
617
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:05,240
The trick is this.
618
00:37:05,240 --> 00:37:08,080
Oh, look at that! It lifts up.
619
00:37:08,080 --> 00:37:11,080
'Mary's warmed up some Arbroath smokies,
620
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,760
'smoked haddock from northeast Scotland,
621
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:17,960
'which Dorothy describes in one of her Daily Sketch articles.'
622
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:19,680
So there's our lovely smokie,
623
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:22,800
and I'll tell you what it's supposed to be like.
624
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,800
It's supposed to be "a gold bronzed fish,
625
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,600
"smoke-dried, redolent with the savour of the peat."
626
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,320
- And mind the bones.
- Mind the bones.
627
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:34,520
Mmm. That's very good.
628
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:39,200
- You certainly need the butter with it.
- Mmm.
629
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:40,760
- It's delicious.
- What do you think?
630
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:43,040
Mmm, very nice. It's delicious, but I don't think
631
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:46,000
we should be eating it in your lovely, warm kitchen.
632
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,320
We should be in a smoke-filled cottage in the middle
633
00:37:48,320 --> 00:37:49,840
of a peat bog in Scotland.
634
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:54,400
I can see you're a romantic, Lucy! Yes.
635
00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:59,960
Because you're an artist, what do you see in her as a fellow artist?
636
00:37:59,960 --> 00:38:01,640
Well, really, I see her
637
00:38:01,640 --> 00:38:06,760
more as an illustrator than as an artist,
638
00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:12,200
and her drawings are so wonderfully accurate,
639
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:15,320
so what really fascinates me
640
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:19,920
is the way she makes it absolutely clear
641
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:25,040
what everyone or everything is doing,
642
00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:27,520
how it's made, the detail.
643
00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:31,720
And despite from being so accurate,
644
00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:33,960
they're not boring at all.
645
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:35,920
They're all lively,
646
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:39,840
and her observation is acute.
647
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:42,120
Look at all the detail,
648
00:38:42,120 --> 00:38:46,680
the tool you're using, and the plaiting, and...
649
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:49,640
It's just so remarkable.
650
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:52,560
What do you think is the most important
651
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,240
thing of all about Dorothy Hartley?
652
00:38:55,240 --> 00:38:59,000
Well, it's the breadth of her interests.
653
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,840
She was really a very adventurous woman,
654
00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:05,640
and very hard-working,
655
00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:08,240
and one of my theories is
656
00:39:08,240 --> 00:39:11,760
this was because she wasn't married,
657
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:16,560
didn't have children, or some fractious husband,
658
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:19,760
and that whole focus went on
659
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:24,040
whatever she was researching at the time.
660
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:33,680
"By the time coal cooking came into fairly general usage,
661
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:35,120
"the fireplace had moved
662
00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:37,560
"from the middle of the room to the side wall.
663
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,880
"Chimneys had been built climbing up the older houses
664
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,640
"like hollow caterpillars clinging to a leaf."
665
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:51,600
Tell me a bit about your amazing cottage.
666
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:53,160
How long have you been living here?
667
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:57,960
Well, I bought the house in 1955.
668
00:39:58,960 --> 00:40:02,440
My husband...I was going to say "buggered off",
669
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:06,640
- but you can't say "bugger", I believe.
- I think you can!
670
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:09,320
- He went off.
- I think if you want to.
- Yes.
671
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:13,600
And so I was left with two children,
672
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:16,120
and my third child was born here,
673
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:18,360
but I'd never lived in the country
674
00:40:18,360 --> 00:40:22,440
so I had to learn about how to do it,
675
00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:26,120
and it was reading Hartley
676
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:31,560
that I began to get some idea about cooking on the fire and so on.
677
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:34,960
So the chapter in here about fuels and fireplaces,
678
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:37,960
for you that was like an instruction manual to your cottage?
679
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:41,240
Absolutely. It really was, yes.
680
00:40:41,240 --> 00:40:45,360
I was fascinated to see all her wonderful illustrations
681
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:50,680
of the different ways of cooking on the fire.
682
00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,320
Dorothy devoted no less than 30 pages
683
00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:09,920
to fuels and fireplaces in Food In England.
684
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:13,080
She researched the book as she roamed the countryside,
685
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:15,640
sometimes by car, sometimes by bike.
686
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:21,360
Sleeping rough under the stars, she relished the hardships.
687
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:25,960
"I was freezing on the Pilgrim's Way.
688
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:29,880
"My fingers were claw-curled with cold inside my gauntlets.
689
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:35,760
"Almost, I could hear the ghosts of Chaucer's riders,
690
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:39,480
"their horse bells tinkling down the path like melting ice."
691
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:54,000
Throughout her travels, Dorothy made connections
692
00:41:54,000 --> 00:41:56,400
between the past and the present.
693
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:00,120
When she saw canal workers, or bargees,
694
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,680
cooking a one-pot meal on their barges,
695
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:06,440
she recognised how closely it was related to the medieval cauldron,
696
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:08,680
and sure enough, there it is,
697
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:11,280
in the chapter on fuels and fireplaces.
698
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:17,640
The food writer Rose Prince is going to cook the bargemen's dinner,
699
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:19,000
just as Dorothy described.
700
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:21,400
It's ancient, this dish is.
701
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:23,840
I love the cross-section in her drawing
702
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:27,360
where you see all of the vegetables with the meat on top
703
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:30,280
all layered up, and look above and you see the cauldron
704
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:33,680
and there are pieces of meat and fat wrapped in cloth.
705
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:36,320
So much of what she saw had to be taken from history books.
706
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:37,800
This was the real thing.
707
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:39,560
Right, turnips first?
708
00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:42,120
Turnips at the base for sweetness.
709
00:42:42,120 --> 00:42:44,760
Fresh belly of pork.
710
00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:49,040
A little bit of smoked salt pork to add flavour.
711
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:52,280
On top of that, carrots and parsnips. Now, she says water.
712
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:54,640
Just gain a little bit of extra flavour
713
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:58,560
if you have some nice gelatinous broth like this.
714
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:02,360
On top of that, a huff paste, which was a suet crust, essentially,
715
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:04,600
acting as an insulating layer.
716
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:08,440
- On top of that, some sliced potatoes. More huff paste.
- OK.
717
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:11,720
- On top of that, some apples.
- Apples!
- If you're going to have a pudding.
718
00:43:11,720 --> 00:43:13,600
- Yeah.
- That will fuel the bargee.
719
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:18,120
It's such a simple but powerful idea, isn't it?
720
00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:22,000
Once you've made that preparation, it cooks itself.
721
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:24,880
Great!
722
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:27,280
- Into the water, do you think?
- There we go.
723
00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:37,360
The brilliant idea here is that the one pot
724
00:43:37,360 --> 00:43:39,200
will cook the main meal and the pudding
725
00:43:39,200 --> 00:43:42,800
and anything else you want slowly in the boiling water.
726
00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:46,000
It'll be ready to eat after about two hours,
727
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:48,560
or you can just leave it to bubble away all day
728
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:51,960
until the boatman, Tim here, gets hungry.
729
00:43:55,440 --> 00:43:58,000
- Oh, they're cooked! It's worked!
- They have cooked.
730
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:01,240
- That is true cooked food.
- And look, the pastry's cooked.
731
00:44:01,240 --> 00:44:04,600
- Oh, it looks cooked. It looks like a suet pudding.
- Yeah.
732
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:07,840
The apples have kept their shape nicely, haven't they?
733
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:11,200
Needs a bit of custard on there, I think.
734
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:12,960
There it is. Bit of turnip.
735
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:16,680
- Now then.
- Great!
736
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:18,840
Thank you very much. Smashing.
737
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:20,280
You got a fork there?
738
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:26,280
That warms the cockles of the heart, doesn't it?
739
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:27,920
Well, I think it's great.
740
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:29,920
Just the sort of thing you need at the end of a day.
741
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:33,080
What are your final thoughts, then, on Dorothy, Rose?
742
00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:34,680
What does she mean to you?
743
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:38,440
I think she's the most interesting writer
744
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:40,320
to have covered British food
745
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:42,680
for a simple point that she is the person
746
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:45,040
who found out what everyone is eating.
747
00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:47,520
- So often we know what kings ate.
- Yeah.
748
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:50,040
And we know what ladies in Tudor households
749
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:53,640
prepared for their big kitchens, but we don't know what people ate,
750
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:56,840
and through her very forensic investigation
751
00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:01,200
into all the equipment and the animal breeds and the landscape,
752
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:05,560
she found out, and that marks her out above everyone else.
753
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:11,720
I agree with Rose.
754
00:45:11,720 --> 00:45:16,520
It's Dorothy's interest in ordinary people that's really extraordinary.
755
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:21,000
And I'm beginning to appreciate
756
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:23,680
that she was a chronicler of her own times.
757
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:26,360
Food In England isn't just a history book.
758
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:28,600
It also paints a picture of the England
759
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:30,880
she criss-crossed between the wars.
760
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:37,760
In her newspaper articles and photographs, her fascination
761
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:42,080
with the way people lived and worked on the land is plain to see.
762
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:45,560
She devotes no less than 29 pages of Food In England
763
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:48,960
to the very mundane subject of sheep.
764
00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:55,960
"An old shepherd and myself spent one summer mapping the moorland.
765
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:58,600
"It was a curious piece of work,
766
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:01,920
"and very enlightening as to the mentality of mutton."
767
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:09,640
Dorothy writes really romantically and evocatively about farming life,
768
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:13,120
but she also includes lots of utilitarian information too,
769
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:15,720
like absolutely everything you can do
770
00:46:15,720 --> 00:46:20,200
with absolutely every single part of a cow or a sheep.
771
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:24,280
She brings to life the annual spectacle of the sheep-shearing.
772
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:27,640
This is Manor Farm, a hill farm right up above Wharfedale,
773
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:32,040
and it's a good day to be here, cos it's shearing day.
774
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:44,800
Chris Akrigg's family came here as tenant farmers
775
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,400
in the Yorkshire Dales just after the Second World War.
776
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:51,920
These days, Chris runs the business with his three sons.
777
00:47:03,720 --> 00:47:05,200
'My turn now.'
778
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:10,320
First we're just going to practise cuddling a sheep...
779
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:13,240
Just grip it well. That's it.
780
00:47:13,240 --> 00:47:14,840
- I've got him. Got him.
- Excellent.
781
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:17,120
I love sheep. I love you!
782
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:23,480
No, don't pull the wool. Always pull the thing back, that's right.
783
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:27,360
- I'm so worried about hurting him.
- No, you're not hurting.
784
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:35,760
That's it...
785
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:38,040
There you go, you're done!
786
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:41,880
Ooh, dear. That's not brilliant, is it?
787
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:44,920
- It's not too bad, actually...
- I haven't finished! Come back.
788
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:50,400
We don't need a dog when we have Lucy.
789
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:55,040
- It's pretty good.
- No, it's dreadful compared with the others!
790
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:58,080
- Distinctive anyway, isn't it?
- Yeah.
791
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:01,680
So what was it like in Dorothy Hartley's childhood, then,
792
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:05,320
in the late Victorian times? What was the sheep shearing like?
793
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:08,120
Traditionally, people would help each other do it.
794
00:48:08,120 --> 00:48:10,760
And, of course, it was much quieter.
795
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:13,760
I remember an old chap telling me once that he was the very first one
796
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:17,200
to take a machine round to one of these parties.
797
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:18,960
You'd do it with your neighbours
798
00:48:18,960 --> 00:48:21,000
and perhaps invite some other people to come,
799
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,680
and they'd have a clipping session. He went with his machine.
800
00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:25,640
The others couldn't hear each other talking,
801
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:27,000
so they never asked him again.
802
00:48:27,000 --> 00:48:29,400
- That's modernity for you!
- Exactly.
803
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:35,720
Farming in the Dales has changed beyond all recognition
804
00:48:35,720 --> 00:48:38,160
since Dorothy Hartley's day.
805
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:41,600
Over the years, Chris has had to take on more and more land
806
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,440
to make a decent living.
807
00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:46,200
He now farms around 2,000 acres.
808
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:50,720
It's not just us that's done this,
809
00:48:50,720 --> 00:48:53,280
lots of farms in the Dale have all expanded
810
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:56,000
and taken over another farm, and it's a shame,
811
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,080
because it's depopulated the Dale.
812
00:48:58,080 --> 00:48:59,840
On the social side especially.
813
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:02,360
There aren't as many jobs, though, for human beings.
814
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:05,600
No. My grandfather milked ten cows, kept poultry,
815
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:08,560
a few turkeys at Christmas, 20 pigs and a few sheep.
816
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:11,240
And employed a man and a boy. And made a good living.
817
00:49:11,240 --> 00:49:14,080
But that would be a sort of part-time job today.
818
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:18,720
That's the difference, you just need so much to make a living nowadays.
819
00:49:21,240 --> 00:49:25,680
"At sheep shearings, baskets of beef sandwiches were carried around.
820
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:29,520
"Each with a mustard pot tied to the handle.
821
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:32,200
"No-one eats mutton at a sheep shearing."
822
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:39,040
- Right, I'm having mustard.
- I'm going to have onions, I think.
823
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:40,200
Go on, then.
824
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:41,760
Any excuse to eat beef!
825
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:44,040
'Dorothy's writing is so compelling -
826
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:46,560
'partly because she's capturing a world
827
00:49:46,560 --> 00:49:48,640
'just on the cusp of destruction.
828
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:52,720
'She described the lifestyle of Chris Akrigg's grandfather
829
00:49:52,720 --> 00:49:56,040
'and others like him even as it began to fall apart,
830
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:58,640
'with mass production and mechanisation.
831
00:50:01,800 --> 00:50:04,240
'Two generations and a World War later,
832
00:50:04,240 --> 00:50:07,120
'it was a way of life that would be lost for ever.'
833
00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:16,640
"Bracken used to be cut for bedding for farm animals,
834
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:20,720
"for covering in root crops, and for weaving into shelters and hurdles.
835
00:50:20,720 --> 00:50:24,240
"Quantities were used by the slate and heavy earthenware industries
836
00:50:24,240 --> 00:50:27,360
"to pack their ware for road transport.
837
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:29,040
"Now, it is not cut,
838
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:32,920
"and has become a desperate weed instead of a useful growth."
839
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:41,600
Most of the research for Food In England
840
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:44,160
was done during her wandering years.
841
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:48,320
But after 1945, Dorothy settled down here in North Wales
842
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:50,560
and this is where my journey ends.
843
00:50:54,280 --> 00:50:56,640
She lived in the village of Fron
844
00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:58,760
in a house she'd inherited from her mother
845
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:00,640
overlooking the Llangollen Canal.
846
00:51:04,960 --> 00:51:08,880
'It was here that 30 years of painstaking observation
847
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:11,480
'came together in her magnum opus,
848
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:14,280
'the book that's her greatest achievement.'
849
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:23,160
'Food In England was published in 1954. Reviewers loved it.
850
00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:25,680
'Harold Nicolson, writing in The Times, said,
851
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:31,120
'"Miss Dorothy Hartley's Food In England will become a classic".
852
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:35,040
'He was right. Food In England has never been out of print.'
853
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:47,360
'By the time it was published, she was well into her 60s.'
854
00:51:49,480 --> 00:51:53,240
'I've come to her house to meet four people who remember Dorothy
855
00:51:53,240 --> 00:51:57,920
'from these last years of her life, including Malcolm Wiles,
856
00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:00,760
'whose father, Teddy, helped her to move in.'
857
00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:04,840
"Wiles, Wiles, Wiles," she used to call my dad, didn't she?
858
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:09,360
"I want you to go to so-and-so." Not "can you", "I want you to go."
859
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:14,120
'Malcolm's wife, Rosemary, still has the letter that Dorothy sent
860
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:16,240
'with instructions about moving.'
861
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:19,760
'This was just like Dorothy.
862
00:52:19,760 --> 00:52:22,800
'Instead of listing her furniture, she draws it.'
863
00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:28,080
First of all in her mind was her work desk.
864
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:31,520
This was where her writing was done and she had put that first.
865
00:52:31,520 --> 00:52:34,640
- This is the most important item of all.
- That's what I thought, yes.
866
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:36,640
The desk where she does the writing?
867
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:39,400
- Yes, that's right. And herself last.
- Yep.
- With the cat.
868
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:42,840
The sewing machine, cycle, cat - there he is.
869
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:45,000
- Yes, Mark.
- Mark the cat.
870
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:46,720
And here's Dorothy herself.
871
00:52:46,720 --> 00:52:50,000
She's carrying a packet of sandwiches,
872
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:51,440
a trifle cutter.
873
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:55,600
- And it also says she's carrying a small garden spade.
- Yes.
874
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:58,360
Would you describe her as easy to get to know?
875
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:00,480
- Well,
- I
- found her easy to get to know.
876
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:03,720
She didn't phone, she arrived by the door, didn't she?
877
00:53:03,720 --> 00:53:05,680
The Welsh are...
878
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:07,120
Well, "Come day, go day."
879
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:09,440
That's the slang word, isn't it?
880
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:12,160
Anything will do, tomorrow will do, there's no rush,
881
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:14,880
but that wasn't Miss Hartley. It's now, isn't it?
882
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:18,480
- That was Miss Hartley. Now.
- Was she generous?
883
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:21,880
Money-wise, no, because she hadn't got any.
884
00:53:21,880 --> 00:53:24,520
- But as I say, she'd do anything for you.
- Yeah.
885
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:27,640
- She'd never see anybody in trouble, would she, now?
- No.
- No.
886
00:53:27,640 --> 00:53:29,840
Never see anybody in trouble.
887
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:31,880
And she didn't want the world to know
888
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:34,520
that she'd done this, that or the other for them.
889
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:38,200
- She asked me to type a letter for her.
- Yes.
890
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:43,800
Rickety old machine and she dictated it to me, you see.
891
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:46,800
She kept changing her mind. "No, no, no, cross that out."
892
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:50,480
So I'd cross it out. X it out, no Tipp-Ex in those days.
893
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:54,520
And ended up with a whole paragraph X-ed out.
894
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:58,480
I said, "I'll type it nicely for you." "No, no, no."
895
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:03,440
She signed it, "Just post it on your way home." So I thought...
896
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:06,160
So I'm afraid I stole a piece of paper from her study
897
00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:10,120
on the way home and I typed it on my machine.
898
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:12,880
- Oh, you typed it properly?
- LUCY LAUGHS
899
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:15,720
And... Don't tell anybody this, will you?
900
00:54:15,720 --> 00:54:18,360
I forged her signature and posted it off!
901
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:21,000
THEY LAUGH
902
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:24,560
What's the most personal item of Dorothy's that you own?
903
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:27,440
I think probably the most interesting one that came out
904
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:29,920
of all the boxes and files and papers
905
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:31,960
was her handbag, which I have.
906
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:35,560
Her handbag, look at this! The handbag of Dorothy Hartley.
907
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:38,200
It's more or less just as the contents were in there.
908
00:54:38,200 --> 00:54:41,400
That seems to me exactly the sort of thing I would imagine her carrying -
909
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:43,880
something big that you could knock people on the head with
910
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:44,920
if you wanted to.
911
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:46,800
- Can I open it?
- Please do, yes.
912
00:54:46,800 --> 00:54:50,240
- That such an intimate thing to do, to look into a lady's handbag.
- Yeah.
913
00:54:50,240 --> 00:54:53,760
It feels wrong to look into somebody's handbag.
914
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:55,240
Oh, she wouldn't mind.
915
00:54:55,240 --> 00:54:57,760
I guess she'd have done the same thing, wouldn't she?
916
00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:00,480
If she found our handbags lying around, she'd be right in there.
917
00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:03,080
If there was something hand-crafted in there, she would.
918
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:06,440
Now, here we've got a little knife.
919
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:09,400
Little horn penknife.
920
00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:15,000
Oh, look, this is so characteristic.
921
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:18,040
It's her ticket to the reading room of the British Museum.
922
00:55:18,040 --> 00:55:21,320
"Miss D Hartley, not transferable."
923
00:55:21,320 --> 00:55:24,400
That's just the sort of thing I would have hoped to find.
924
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:26,480
Oh, and we've got another one.
925
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:29,840
The Departments Of Manuscripts at the British Library.
926
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:32,360
Here's something else incredibly characteristic.
927
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:34,360
She's carrying around an atlas.
928
00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:36,160
It's an atlas of the British Isles,
929
00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:40,560
- so she always knows where she is and where she's going next.
- Yes.
930
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:43,200
That really is the woman in a bag, isn't it?
931
00:55:43,200 --> 00:55:45,440
- All those things together there.
- Yes.
932
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:52,120
I'll tell you now, Lucy, I walked in here today and it affected me.
933
00:55:52,120 --> 00:55:54,880
I've not been in here since the day of the funeral
934
00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:58,920
- and when I come through that door...
- And she's not here...
935
00:55:58,920 --> 00:56:01,720
- ..there was a lump in my throat.
- Mm.
936
00:56:01,720 --> 00:56:03,760
We weren't close, not anything like that,
937
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:10,200
no more than doing things for her. But I still... But I still felt...
938
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:12,880
You know, as I say, there was a lump in my throat.
939
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:21,600
Having followed Dorothy's journey to its very end,
940
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:23,280
I'm surprised and impressed
941
00:56:23,280 --> 00:56:26,120
to find a respectable schoolmaster's daughter
942
00:56:26,120 --> 00:56:29,960
following such an unconventional course through life.
943
00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:33,640
I've come to realise she's more than a great writer.
944
00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:36,240
I think she's an admirable human being.
945
00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:42,520
Dorothy died in 1985 and it was Malcolm
946
00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:48,120
who brought her body up from the house here to the churchyard.
947
00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:50,600
I was really moved by how much Malcolm
948
00:56:50,600 --> 00:56:53,720
and her other friends still seem to miss Dorothy.
949
00:56:53,720 --> 00:56:56,920
They regret the fact that she didn't leave any children
950
00:56:56,920 --> 00:57:00,960
but, instead, she did leave us this amazing book.
951
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:03,880
And as I followed her up and down the country -
952
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:07,640
from Yorkshire to Leicestershire, to Suffolk, to Wales -
953
00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:09,640
I've really come to appreciate
954
00:57:09,640 --> 00:57:13,360
just how magnificently eccentric she really was.
955
00:57:13,360 --> 00:57:19,920
She devoted her whole life to this mad quest, to capture a lost world.
956
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:21,560
And thank goodness she did.
957
00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:25,840
The world needs these crazy, passionate people like Dorothy.
958
00:57:32,520 --> 00:57:35,760
There's just one more piece to put into the picture -
959
00:57:35,760 --> 00:57:40,200
a home movie showing Dorothy doing what she loved to do,
960
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:44,520
working in the garden and digging up potatoes for dinner.
961
00:57:59,800 --> 00:58:03,640
"If everything I possess vanished suddenly, I'd be sorry,
962
00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:08,800
"but I value things unpossessed -
963
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:13,960
"the wind, and trees and sky and kind thoughts - much more.
964
00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:24,600
"What a poetic old party, eh?"
965
00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:54,280
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