Of course, you WILL share your recipe, won't you? Learning how to make something that was an important part of family life for our ancestors would definitely enhance our Yorkshire Family Stories, I should think. I don't think that our families went out to bakeries way back then, so surely there are family-held recipes for this goody that we have only heard about... often wondered what a "Parkin" was! Nancy in Michigan, U S of A, where there just aren't many Parkins... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janice Wood" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 1:05 PM Subject: [YORKSHIRE] London Group meeting > Hello all, > > As Roy has mentioned it - I am going to the meeting on the 28th, to hear a > talk about "Yorkshire Food" by Christine Willott - if you've been to any > of > our Yorksgen gatherings, you probably know Chris. > My contribution to the meeting - I am bringing some authentic Yorkshire > Parkin, which all those who attend will be able to sample. > > Now many of you will be wondering what Parkin is - it's made at our local > bakery and is an oaty gingerbread. > > :-)) > > Janice Wood > > > > > Some useful websites - > FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ > FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

If you decide to share your recipe, I would like a copy of it. Would like to know what my ancestors ate. Carol Texas USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nancy Keith" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 1:36 PM Subject: Re: [YORKSHIRE] London Group meeting > > Of course, you WILL share your recipe, won't you? Learning how to make > something that was an important part of family life for our ancestors > would > definitely enhance our Yorkshire Family Stories, I should think. I don't > think that our families went out to bakeries way back then, so surely > there > are family-held recipes for this goody that we have only heard about... > often wondered what a "Parkin" was! > > Nancy > in Michigan, U S of A, where there just aren't many Parkins... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Janice Wood" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 1:05 PM > Subject: [YORKSHIRE] London Group meeting > > >> Hello all, >> >> As Roy has mentioned it - I am going to the meeting on the 28th, to hear >> a >> talk about "Yorkshire Food" by Christine Willott - if you've been to any >> of >> our Yorksgen gatherings, you probably know Chris. >> My contribution to the meeting - I am bringing some authentic Yorkshire >> Parkin, which all those who attend will be able to sample. >> >> Now many of you will be wondering what Parkin is - it's made at our local >> bakery and is an oaty gingerbread. >> >> :-)) >> >> Janice Wood >> >> >> >> >> Some useful websites - >> FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ >> FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ >> Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki >> http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > > Some useful websites - > FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ > FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message