WHAT I TREASURE

Granny’s pie dish By Kathryn Price

While I have prettier things by which to remember her, nothing expresses Granny’s personality as well as her pie dish. She loved fine china for her cup of tea, and a good glass for her dram of whisky, but the pie dish says much more about her. Granny was born in 1897 and, as a girl, she’d been in service in a big house. There’s a photo of her from before the First World War, taken as a gift for her mother – it’s a startling likeness to my niece, some 100 years later. While Granny was proud of being a cook, including in Morpeth’s ‘Buttery’ (“That’s The Buttery in The Queen’s Hotel, on the main road, ye knaw”), she wasn’t the best at teaching her four granddaughters to bake. Well, not…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2024

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