Florence White

‘Hindle Wakes’

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      6 hr

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By Florence White

Published 1932

  • About

Mrs. Kate A. Earp (Brighton) who sends this recipe says: ‘We as a family in Lancashire called these fowls “Hindle Wakes” — why I do not know, unless it was, because old hens were sold at the “wakes” (fairs.)’

Ingredients

  • An old boiling fowl
  • prunes 1 lb.
  • lemon juice (2 lemons

Method

  1. Wash lemon and pare the rind thinly and simmer it gently in ½ pint water for 15 minutes to extract the flavour.
  2. Add to this water the strained juice of the 2 lemons.
  3. Wash the prunes and p