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Peter Thoday] In the glasshouses of estate gardens like Chilton, thousands of ornamental plants had to be destroyed to make way for food crops. But, if like these climbing roses, they took up little space, they could be spared. Harry digs the recently cleared bed to grow early cauliflowers. Glasshouses were a great asset, as they provided vegetables at a time of year when there was a shortage of fresh greens. At the age of 70, Mott replied to an appeal, printed in the Women's Institute journal Home and Country, for women who had worked in country houses before the Second World War, especially those who had experience of Victorian methods of cooking. The BBC wished to build on the success of the television show The Victorian Kitchen Garden, which explored how a country garden would be run during Victorian Britain. The second series was called The Victorian Kitchen, and this explored how the produce grown in the garden, by series gardener Harry Dodson, would be cooked using Victorian methods. [3] [5] Bill died in 1959. Mott continued in her catering and office work until 1970 when she was offered a full-time role as cook-housekeeper at Basildon Park near Pangbourne for Lord and Lady Iliffe. [3] Mott continued to work full-time at Basildon Park until 1987, when she was 70, although she did casual work for the household after this date. Ruth Mott] Well I think everybody thought they were hard done by. In the country, we thought they did better in the towns, and in the town they thought you did better in the country. I mean, we had access to rabbits, eggs, perhaps a drop more milk, various things like that. In the town, of course, they knew the minute that the fish was in the fish shop. They had the advantage of queueing for cigarettes, which would only be in a very small amount in the village.

Harry Dodson] We’ve got a few summer crops all from it, and then we cloche up some autumn crops again. Automobile Club; The City Club; Cranbrook School Trustees (Bloomfield Hills); Elks Club; Flint Community Education; Flint Junior College Board (now Mott Community College); Hurley Hospital; Kiwanis; Masonic Lodge; Michael Hamady Club House for Stepping-Stone Girls; Mott Camp for Boys; President of YMCA; Red Feather Fund; Rotary Club; Rotary International; Stevens Institute of Technology; St. Paul’s Episcopal Church; YWCA Trustee Peter Thoday] Among those evacuated during the first days of the war were mothers with young children. Joyce and her small son Paul arrive from London. Ruth, like so many others, must learn to share her kitchen.

I have the series The Victorian Kitchen Garden on DVD and the book, I just love the series as do my younger daughters. I also loved the Wartime Kitchen & Garden which featured a completely different assistant helping Ruth Mott and was not Alison Arnison who played the part of Scullery Maid excellently in The Victorian Kitchen Garden. Let's hope they release The Wartime Kitchen & Garden onto dvd soon, in the meantime UKTV Garden's shows both series once or twice a year, the Wartime K&G was on in Feb this year. Peter Thoday] At first, people had no idea what to expect. They feared the bombers would come at once. They didn’t. Nor did the shortages. As the troops left for France, many people believed it would be all over by Christmas. This unexpected reprieve gave people a chance to prepare themselves. With government encouragement, storing and preserving the autumn harvest took on a new urgency. Old skills were called up, like drying apple rings. Ruth Mott] Now I’m cutting this into about six or eight rings. This is a nice apple because it’s soft, and so it’ll dry out, ‘coz that’s the object of the manoeuvre. And then we can keep these for the rest of the winter, or quite a long time. We’re going, also, to light a sulphur candle, and turn the jar up over it so that it will fill with fumes. And then that will stop the apples, hopefully, discolouring. They’re bound to go a little bit brown, because of the drying out process.

Ruth Mott] You registered with whatever, if your grocer, you had to ask them if they would accept you. Possibly if you were a bad payer, he perhaps wouldn’t feel too happy about taking you. Also you registered with your butcher, and then you just went to those each week and got what you were entitled to. You couldn’t… if you didn’t take your ration this week, you couldn’t put it off until next week and have a double ration. When her daughter, Bertha, was born, Mott became a housewife, only returning to employment in 1957 when Bertha was in school. Mott took an office job in the day, and catered for local functions in her free time. Harry Dodson, stringing onions] From now on, it’s fairly straightforward. You want, as near as possible, a couple of onions the same size. Then you wind the tops round like that. They need, really, about three inches of pretty sound top. Well then you just put them round, twist them like that. They never seem to go quite where one wants them, but that often happens. It comes right in the end. You want to keep the rope going even, and the next ones will come so they fill in that hole. A lot of people have got the idea that these are tied on. A good garden fashion, good old kitchen gardeners, I’ve never seen any of them tie them on. It was always used by this method. I’ve been chattering and not paying too much attention to what I was doing, and one or two of the old boys wouldn’t have been very proud of this string. But it’s not so bad. At 8:30 on the evening of Friday, 5th November 1993, the first episode of WTKG aired on BBC Two and I, for one, will be marking the day with a bit of WTKG over-indulgence (and possibly a few fireworks, given the date). tablespoonfuls of cream, a little margarine, 10 anchovies. Bake the potatoes in a moderate oven. Then cutWith no script and using turns of phrase, Mott spoke to the camera describing bygone methods of preparing and cooking food. She was a success with the viewers, who took to her stories and personality, and the fact that Mott, with her ample figure, strong Berkshire accent and capable abilities, epitomised the positive stereotype of a country cook.

Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Ruth Mott worth at the age of 95 years old? Ruth Mott’s income source is mostly from being a successful Miscellaneous. She is from UK. We have estimated As you already answered the first question about The Wartime Kitchen & Garden I'll move on to answer the second. The programme in which Harry Dodson visted Canada was called Harry's Big Adventure and you can find a little bit of information bout it at this url: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0879815/ She is a member of famous Miscellaneous with the age 95 years old group. Ruth Mott Height, Weight & MeasurementsMy name is Alison Arnison. I was the Scullery Maid in the 'Victorian Kitchen' Series. I am now living in Canada and have 3 children. I cannot believe it has been around 20 years since we filmed the series!! I am still in touch with Ruth and some of the crew. It was very sad to hear of Harry Dobson passing a few years ago. He was a very very nice man and it was an honour to work with him. Her parents’ care for children and spirit of giving lived on in Ruth. She went east to study physical education and returned home to teach in the late 1920s. She later opened a dance studio where she delighted in teaching children, including those of her friends, and performed with her studio partners. She met Charles Stewart Mott in 1932. After they married in 1934, Ruth moved to Applewood, C.S. Mott’s Flint estate, where they raised their three children and nurtured a family legacy of giving and civic participation.

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