Tulbagh Crafters

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12/06/2024

A great event and a chance to browse round this beautiful building while looking at local gifts and goodies on sale.
Outside sit on the lawns while the children enjoy the kids area.
Just one of the many things at this years Christmas in Winter 🧑‍🎄🧑‍🎄

31/05/2024

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17/05/2024

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27/04/2024

Tea pots made at Rochelle Beresfords workshop - just proves anyone can do it!!

23/12/2023

For anyone making mince pies today !

Mince pies are a sweet pie of English origin filled with "mincemeat," which is a mixture of fruit, spices, and suet. These pies have been a staple of Christmas fare since the 13th century. European crusaders brought back Middle Eastern recipes from the Holy Land, these recipes combined meats, fruits, and spices. The pies were traditionally oblong-shaped to resemble a manger, and more elaborate ones were often topped with a depiction of the Christ Child. They were originally called by several names, including "mutton pie," "shrid pie," and "Christmas pie.".
In Tudor England, shrid pies were made from shredded meat, suet, and dried fruit. The addition of spices such as cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg was a nod to the spices brought to the baby Jesus by the Biblical Magi. In the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, they were known as minched pies and would contain beef tongue, goose meat, or mutton, but by the English Civil War, the pies were associated with Catholic “idolatry” and frowned on by the Puritan authorities. Nevertheless, the tradition of eating Christmas pies continued into the Victorian era, although by then its recipe had become sweeter and its size had been markedly reduced from the large oblong shape to a circle.
Today’s mince pies don’t contain meat any more but are still made with suet or other animal fat and are a popular Christmas treat across the UK and other English-speaking countries.

Sources:
Discovering Christmas Customs and Folklore, Margaret Baker
British Popular Customs – Present and Past – Illustrating the Social and Domestic Manners of the People, T. F. Dyer
Something for Everybody (and a Garland for the Year), John Timbs

22/12/2023

Merry Christmas to all our Tulbagh Crafters !