From Tins to Tables
Agnes May Warren kept her family's knowledge in two old tins for sixty years. Inside: handwritten recipes from 1914 onwards, clippings, remedies, a Girl Scout certificate — and a secret. In her final months Daphne gave the tins to DuGallan — her last wish that he carry on the journey of discovery. Inside he found more than recipes. This is the companion to the Hughes Chronicles — the real book that was inside the tins all along.
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The real book inside the tins
Agnes May Warren née Randall was born on 3 September 1911 in Matatiele, Natal. She cooked on a Defy Dover coal stove that burned twenty-four hours a day. She drank Mazawattee tea — loose leaf, steel teapot, warmed cups, milk first. She never lounged in the lounge. Everything happened in the kitchen.
Her two tins — including the Queen Elizabeth tin — held handwritten recipes from 1914 onwards, clippings, remedies, a Girl Scout certificate from 1922, and a secret she never spoke of in her lifetime.
The companion to The Hughes Chronicles
The recipe tins that feature in the Hughes Chronicles are real. This is the book that was inside them. Readers of the series will find the tins take on a new meaning when they know Agnes May's story.
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