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.   HOME About Holy Trinity The week at Holy Trinity Children & young people Prime Time (50+) More Mature (50-90) Thursday lunch Fellowship groups Music at Holy Trinity Sport at Holy Trinity Projects at home/overseas Preaching programmes Baptisms weddings funerals Hiring 'The Arches' Traidcraft (Fairtrade) stall Rotas News archive Links Contact us   Recipe booklet 100 years old   Click to view (3Mb PDF)   100 years on, a fund-raising recipe book comes home Rev Alison Montgomery was surprised to receive a phone call in August 2007 from a lady in Scarborough, the daughter-in-law of a Mrs Violet Pearson (1912-2002), also of Scarborough. In her personal effects, Mrs Pearson the elder had a recipe book, published in 1907 to raise funds for a 'New Heating Apparatus' for Holy Trinity Ripon. Mrs Pearson the elder had never lived in Ripon, so no one knows how the recipe book came into her possession; perhaps an older relative bought a copy and contributed to the upkeep of the church 100 years ago. The 28-page booklet contains recipes contributed by people all over Ripon and beyond; names and partial addresses are given, and advertisements by local merchants, such as butchers, fishmongers, spirit merchants and drapers, show familiar addresses with 2-digit phone numbers. It all adds up to a fascinating insight into the city's history, as well as a bygone way of life. This was a time when ladies' first names were a mystery; when it was considered perfectly normal to 'clean a large oxtail carefully', to cook over a fire, to boil a pig's head, and to weigh out a 'stone of flour'. A recipe for Cocoa-Nut Ice from 'Mrs Longstaff - Trinity Vicarage' ties in neatly with the record, on Holy Trinity's website, of a Revd T Longstaff, vicar of the church from 1904-1918. The booklet also offers further insight into the ongoing maintenance of the church over the years, and an interesting foretaste of the Space Project - a major refurbishment which took place at Holy Trinity Ripon in 2003 - when another new heating 'apparatus' was installed! In 1907, the new heating system was probably the first the church had ever had: built in 1827, the church was unlikely to have been fitted with radiators originally. We do know from the history of the church, also shown on this website, that there was a fair amount of re-ordering going on in the early 1900s: in 1901, the vestry was placed in the church tower and chancel; the new organ was moved from the south gallery to its final resting place in the north transept; and the comunion rail was brought forward. This booklet is the first we knew of a new heating system being installed (or at least planned!) around 1907.

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