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Florence White (20 June 1863 in Peckham – 12 March 1940 in Fareham, Hampshire) was an English food writer, the daughter of Richard White and Harriet Jane Thirkell. She established the English Folk Cookery Association in 1928 and published books on cookery and other domestic subjects. Her cookery book Good Things in England remains in print. Early life Florence White was the fifth and youngest child of Richard White, a lace buyer for Copestake, Moore, Crampton & Co., a firm in the City of London, and his second wife, Harriet Jane Thrikell. Many on Richard White's side of the family had worked as innkeepers. Florence White's mother died on June 2, 1869, when Florence was almost seven. Richard White then married Ann Pope, White's stepmother, with whom she had a fraught, difficult relationship. The family lived initially in Peckham but had moved to Lewisham shortly before Thirkell's death. Writing of her mother in her autobiography, White noted that "there was never a happier, lovelier home as long as [Mother] was alive. The love she was so rich in not only made the fire in the kitchen, but warmed all our hearts." As a young child, White was blinded in one eye while playing with a spinning-top and subsequently suffered from frail health, including neuralgic headaches and weakness that adversely affected her ability to prepare for Girton College, University of Cambridge, entrance exams. Due to her father's financial difficulties brought on by an economic depression in the late 1870s, White and her sister, Kate, were removed from school after Christmas in 1877, ending White's formal education. Kate took work as a daily governess while Florence became the White family's maid-of-all-work and her younger siblings' governess. It was from this time forward that White learned to cook. The White family moved again in 1878 to a semi-detached house in Oxford Terrace, South Beddington, with no room for a servant. Again, White recalled, she "was set to work to teach [her] stepbrothers and sister, do the cooking and scullery work, and also a certain amount of upstair bedroom work." White described herself as "a veritable Cinderella." The "proof lay in the fact that an old man who came to the backdoor selling bloaters [Bloater (herring)], oranges, and nuts, would frequently give me something for myself, and the old sweet-woman who came around on Saturdays selling home-made bull's-eyes [Humbug (sweet)] would always give me a screw of peppermint balls, with a 'Bless your sweet face, darling.'" During this period, Kate and Florence also decided to expand their teaching to create a small, fee-paying school. Out of necessity, White learned to both economize but also cook with ingenuity and creativity. She noted in her autobiography that she made her family a hot-bed of garden rubbish to grow vegetables, and that their being "frightfully poor" necessitated her care in the kitchen where she "learnt to make savoury dishes out of very little, and not to waste anything. At that time we could get a sheep's head and pluck from our butcher for ninepence. This included the head with tongue and brains, the heart, lights, and liver. A very good bargain. We always had this once a week, the lights being afterwards boiled up and mixed with mash for the chickens." White, always an avid walker, likewise took full advantage of the edibles that grew in the lanes and hedgerows in their vicinity, particularly the blackberries that White used to make puddings, pies, and jam. Equally important to White's foundation and interest in food were two paternal aunts: Harriet (b.1809), and Louisa (or Louie), who ran the Red Lion Hotel in Fareham after White's grandfather died in 1854. White joined her aunts at the age of 18 where she was introduced to traditional cookery, or what she described as the "good epicurean country-house cookery which had been handed down in the family from mother to daughter since the days of Queen Elizabeth." Because Harriet was suffering from an inoperable tumour and Louisa from creeping paralysis, White's responsibility was to assist in her aunts' care but also to help in the Red Lion kitchen, well-known for serving dishes that were still made on an open range where the food could be roasted in front of the fire. It was during her time at the Red Lion that White further enhanced her cookery skills, learning to paunch hares, and draw, truss and roast poultry. Professional life She later held jobs including school teaching and shop-keeping, before writing her first book, Easy Dressmaking (1891). This was published by the Singer Sewing Machine Company and sold 110,000 copies over eight years. For much of her life, White worked as a journalist as well, including a period at the Edinburgh Evening News where she was the only woman on a staff of twenty men, and as such recalled in her autobiography the days “when Mrs Johnstone edited Tait's Magazine, in the time of Sir Walter Scott.” White told her colleagues that she was “‘no lady’ but just an ordinary journalist as any of [them]” and was allowed almost unlimited scope in topics to write about. Such freedom led to her continued interest in British Foodways as well as a growing interest in working-class girls and diet. White initially investigated a none-too-rare situation for her time period: A girl’s mother died, leaving the child five shillings a week to support herself. By taking in another girl who paid three shillings sixpence in rent, the remaining shillings and pence were left to cover their clothing, fuel, and food. Neither child knew how to buy or cook food, and so they survived on “bread and dripping, stewed tea, cheap pickles, and an occasional kipper or sausage, and porridge, anything to satisfy their appetites. No wonder they were ill,” White concluded. Periods of her own ill health frequently interrupted White's work, but she often used convalescence to devote more time to understanding cookery and foodways, including in the late 1800s when a doctor prescribed a sea voyage. To afford it, White accompanied two young children to India to pay for her own voyage on top of a small wage. Another sickness resulted in White's brother and sister giving White an allowance, freeing her to convalesce in Paris where after she was stronger, she sought professional culinary training by attending Henri-Paul Pellaprat’s and Marthe Distel’s recently opened Le Cordon Bleu. “I avoided classes for ladies,” White stated bluntly in her autobiography. “I wanted the real thing, and got it.” White returned to England and determined on a course of study that would have profound implications for her career: She treated where she was living with cousins in Priest Hutton, City of Lancaster, as if it were as worthy of the same scrutiny she had given to abodes abroad, particularly as the place related to historic and regional foodways. White purchased a map and compass and drew a five mile radius around Lancaster, Lancashire to immerse herself in her ho.... Discover the Harriet Jaine popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Harriet Jaine books.
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