Museum food

A couple of days ago we mentioned our forthcoming Museum Miscellany which takes place on October 8th at 7.30pm in the Market Lavington Community Hall. One of the features of this event is museum food...

A Bessie Francis recipe

Bessie was a lifelong Market Lavington resident. She was born a Gye but later married butcher, Peter Francis who gave up the butchery trade to become the local professional photographer – with Bessi...

Vegetarian Plum Pudding

Christmas is coming. Maybe now is the time to be making your Christmas Puddings and here is a recipe to suit all vegetarians (but not vegans). This is a recipe we have at Market Lavington Museum and i...

Lard Cakes

Yesterday we looked at one of Lucretia Gye’s hand written recipes. Today we look at another recipe which you might be able to try at our Museum Miscellany which takes place in the Community Hall in ...

A Recipe Book

Market lavington Museum is pleased to have a number of recipe books. Some are hand written whilst others are commercial books which have belonged to village people. Yhey can be found, appropriately en...