Hannah's Recipes
A compilation of my mother's recipes from her battered blue folder
My mother, Hannah Horgan (1912 – 2013) collected and compiled recipes from friends, family and acquaintances. These recipes were filed in a battered blue plastic folder held together by old masking tape.
In 2019 I joined the yearly April A-Z blogging challenge to motivate myself to digitise some of these recipes to preserve her handwriting and to record some of her favourite recipes.
Creamy Rice was one of my favourite desserts when I was a child. I made a stovetop version for my own children in later years. Here’s her handwritten recipe.
The A-Z of her recipes with editorial comments is available to view as a PDF on my family archive at WeAre. Enjoy some sweet treats.
On my Earlier Years blog, her Honey Sponge Roll has been viewed more than 1600 times.
Mum made many of these sponge rolls, sometimes honey, sometimes ginger or chocolate. The trick to achieving a good result is in rolling the cake while still hot in a clean tea towel and gently unrolling to fill when cool. These lightly spiced sponge rolls are delicious!
I love this too. We called the sponge roll a Swiss roll and my mother rolled it exactly as you described. I too, have her recipe file in her handwriting and several years ago I scanned some of the recipes and made a digital album each for my children. 🥰
Fabulous to have me the recipes in her very own handwriting!