On Facebook there is a wonderful group called the Vicar’s Wife Club. It is devoted (with tongue firmly in cheek) to the promotion of cooking buns, visiting Wesley Owen and hosting dinner parties.
Run by a host of single ladies dreaming of the day when they too will reach the lofty heights of vicar’s wife-dom, they consider important subjects with complex reference to Calvin and Luther, such as dancing in public and how to access good knitting patterns.
The missing cookbook
Despite this group’s diligence to all things Proverbs 31, they lack one thing; the search for the quintessential cooking guide for the Vicar’s wife. As a youthworker’s wife, my culinary skills have mainly revolved around the ability to know the phone number for the local pizza delivery company. Having said that, there has been the odd occasion when I have had to branch out and do a bit of cooking too. Multiplying Delia’s recipes by four or five just got too expensive. Where to look for guidance?
