Lillian Beckwith S Hebridean Cookbook

‘Oh, how I love that gorgeous smell,’ announced the Bruach nurse, sniffing her way into my kitchen. ‘I wish I had time to indulge myself with food in the way you do . . .’ Lillian Beckwith’s stories of life as a crofter on the Hebridean island of Bruach have delighted her millions of readers over the years. Here she has collected the many traditional recipes that she learned in her Bruach kitchen. Ranging from the simple, delicious dishes of Hebridean fare to her own versions of universal favourites, Lillian Beckwith’s Hebridean Cookbook contains unusual and original recipes for every occasion and budget.

"When Lillian Beckwith advertised for a secluded place in the country, she received a letter with the following unusual description of an isolated Hebridean croft: 'Surely it's that quiet even the sheeps themselves on the hills is lonely and as to the sea it's that near as I use it myself everyday for the refusals...' Her curiosity aroused, Beckwith took up the invitation. This is the comic and enchanting story of the strange rest cure that followed and her efforts to adapt to a completely different way of life."--Back cover.

"Liliian Beckwith's settling in on the island of Bruach and having a croft of her own is the basis of these comic adventures"--Back cover.

"On the Hebridean island of Bruach, life among the crofters ia as happy and full of humour as ever. Beckwith tells enchanting tales about the islanders' wit, their canny resourcefulness and their gossipy interest in outsiders. There is Flora and the fancy dress dance, beachcombing, winkle gathering, Highland cattle and a stag - among many other characters and animals. Based on Beckwith's own experiences"--Publisher's description.

A climbing holiday has brought David Jones to the West Coast of Scotland. Fate has introduced him to Donald. As the days grow into weeks, he finds that fishing for lobster and herring is unlike anything he has done before. As he progresses from being a Green Hand to a practised fisherman, David takes to his new life with relish. The days of his strict chapel-going home in Wales are far behind him. Fishing has become his one obsession. This is as amusing and sympathetic novel.

Lillian Beckwith takes us back to her childhood; to the years before the Second World War, when her father ran a small grocer’s shop in a Cheshire town. It was typical of so many corner shops – the shops that are now more and more becoming just a memory, overwhelmed by redevelopment and the march of the supermarket. The corner shop where customers were known, often friends, people, not just faces at a checkout point, where shopping was gossipy, unhurried. A shop full of remembered smells of childhood: soft soap, aniseed balls, bacon and tea. A shop that is brought to life by the acute, affectionate memories of the little girl who grew up in it.

Another Lillian Beckwith story of love, loss and the struggle for existence in the remote Hebridean Islands.