Corgyncombe's Tillie Tinkham.
It is Beatrix Potter's 150th Birthday Year!
Beatrix Potter was born July 28, 1866.
What joy she has brought into our lives through her stories and illustrations!
Using my High Dumpsie Dearie jam, an old English jam, in a Roly Poly Pudding produced my creation of Corgyncombe High Dumpsie Dearie Roly Poly Pudding!
On the cup is Beatrix Potter's Flopsy Bunny standing by potted geraniums.
On the cup is Beatrix Potter's Flopsy Bunny standing by potted geraniums.
My daughter Sarah and I are admirers of Beatrix Potter and feel a kinship with her. We enjoyed teas, elevenishes and delightful conversations with Tasha Tudor. What fun it would have been to have had Beatrix Potter with us also... what we all together could have talked about... bunnies, gardens, ducks, old houses, old barns, and other aspects of country life and landscapes!
Tom Kitten looks longingly out the window alongside a bouquet of cosmos.
In Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding", published in 1908, Anna Maria the Rat steals some dough for a planned Roly-Poly Pudding. Samuel Whiskers the Rat steals the butter and the rolling pin from the dairy... a rolling pin being necessary to make a Roly-Poly pudding.
Tom Kitten attempted to hide from his Mum by going up the chimney. He was in hopes of getting to the roof where he could catch sparrows. Whilst working his way to the roof he accidentally fell into the Rat's room and was tied up by Anna Maria the Rat. Anna Maria's husband Samuel Whiskers requested that she make for him a "kitten dumpling roly-poly pudding". A butter covered Tom Kitten was then placed and wrapped in the dough, and then dough and Kitten were rolled with the "Roly-Poly" pin. Tom Kitten was to be a Roly-Poly Pudding!
High Dumpsie Dearie is an old English receipt for jam made with apples, pears, and plums with some bruised ginger.
Samuel Whiskers the Rat sitting by the "Roly-Poly" Pin with gathered vegetables, tomatoes and bread for his wife Anna Maria to steal away with.
Samuel Whiskers is a Beatrix Potter figurine based on her book.
Samuel Whiskers is a Beatrix Potter figurine based on her book.
Tom Kitten's sister Mittens, who had hidden away in the dairy, exclaimed to her mother that she had seen "a dreadful 'normous big rat" who swiped away a rolling pin and a pat of butter.
High Dumpsie Dearie makes your kitchen smell delightful!
I peeled, cut up, and weighed out two pounds of each of the fruit. I weighed the plate first and set the scale accordingly.
An old English Roly Poly Pudding tin.
The dough is rolled out and High Dumpsie Dearie jam is applied to the dough leaving the edges free.
A Corgyncombe High Dumpsie Dearie Roly Poly Pudding.
The dough is rolled up and the edges tucked in and then placed in the Roly Poly Pudding tin with a paper liner. The Roly Poly Pudding is steamed.
Corgyncombe High Dumpsie Dearie Roly Poly Pudding and chamomile tea in a Peter Rabbit cup at tea.
Nanny Nettie-Kin feeding her fowl cracked corn.
Nanny is wearing a Sontag that she spun and knit.
We love the book "Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life" by Marta McDowell. Marta McDowell writes of Beatrix Potter's gardens through the seasons. Included are many drawings by Beatrix, photographs of flowers, and old photographs of Beatrix Potter.
Nanny is wearing a Sontag that she spun and knit.
We love the book "Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life" by Marta McDowell. Marta McDowell writes of Beatrix Potter's gardens through the seasons. Included are many drawings by Beatrix, photographs of flowers, and old photographs of Beatrix Potter.
Nanny Nettie-Kin's wheel is whirling as she is spinning yarn for her Sontag.
Beatrix Potter and I both have collected old spinning wheels!
Beatrix Potter, like Benjamin Bunny, wore clogs.
"The Tale of Benjamin Bunny" by Beatrix Potter.
See his little clogs!
See his little clogs!
Beatrix Bunny
Iron on the underside of the clogs.
From the Corgyncombe Vegetable Garden, radishes gathered in a trug with some fresh cut spearmint on the red and white spotted handkerchief. In Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", after eating lettuce and french beans, Peter Rabbit found some radishes and ate til he felt quite ill!
The red and white spotted handkerchief reminds me of Peter Rabbit's mum's red and white spotted handkerchief that was used by the little naughty bunnies, Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny, to gather onions in Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Benjamin Bunny". The handkerchief is also seen in "The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle" as it has been laundered and folded by Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, who, alas, could not get the smell of onions out. Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle then delivered the handkerchief to the bunnies who were hiding amongst the ferns along the way and gladly received the laundered handkerchief.
My garden and sheep at pasture.
2013 was the 100th Anniversary of the publishing of Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Pigling Bland".
In the photograph of the figurines above, Pigling Bland's Mum is sending him off to market.
In the photograph of the figurines above, Pigling Bland's Mum is sending him off to market.
As a little girl, I always felt a strange mix of excitement and fear around my grandpa's pig pen. Perhaps it was the gap in the fence that had me worried!
Sarah feeding her ducks near my garden of herbs.
In Jemima Puddle-Duck, Jemima is sent by the fox Mr. Tod, to look for the herbs for stuffing..
The old apothecary jar holds sage from my garden of herbs.
The old apothecary jar holds sage from my garden of herbs.
At Christmastime I took some photographs of some of the old things and Beatrix Potter figurines on my cupboard. You can see the reflection of the sparkly Christmas tree lights in the glass and china. On the old apothecary jar filled with bay leaf, it looks like a twinkly waterfall coming down the jar between Rebeccah and Drake Puddle-Duck.
High Dumpsie Dearie is also delicious on biscuits at tea served on a Beatrix Potter plate. A Mrs. Rabbit figurine stands nearby with basket and umbrella. The teapot is one of Diane's favorite and has Jemima Puddle-duck and, as Beatrix Potter said, the "foxy-whiskered gentleman" walking about discussing things of importance, such as nesting. The "foxy-whiskered gentleman" was all too interested! There are foxgloves on either side of the Jemima Puddle-duck and the "foxy-whiskered gentleman".
My great wheel in the garret.
Plums in a favorite yellowware bowl with High Dumpsie Dearie jam alongside.
A Tussie Mussie of scented geranium flowers and leaves, camomile and lavender.
At Corgyncombe's Beatrix Potter Birthday Tea 2012, a tussie mussie was made using larkspur, lavender, thyme, winter savory, rosemary, wild marjoram, rose geranium leaves, and baby's breath all gathered from the Corgyncombe Garden of Herbs. The little mouse knitting is based upon Beatrix Potter's illustration of the "Old woman who lived in a shoe" in "Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes". It is one of our favorite Beatrix Potter illustrations! The little knitting mouse's cap reminds us of the white cap that our doll Bridget likes to wear. "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" book on the table is a limited edition reproduction of Beatrix Potter's first privately printed Peter Rabbit book and has the original illustrations with Beatrix's own handwriting. The dust jacket is a reproduction of calico printed by Beatrix's grandfather's calico printworks. It is such a sweet book!
Some of the photographs and some of the writings on this post are from previous Corgyncombe Courant posts that can be found here on the Corgyncombe Courant and from our previous writings elsewhere on the internet.
Here are links to two previous
Beatrix Potter Birthday Celebrations
at the Corgyncombe Courant:
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http://corgyncombecourant.blogspot.com/2016/07/beatrix-potters-150th-birthday-year.html
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