Introduction to the title and me

Hello firstly a line or two about myself, my Dad was a baker all of his life , so I lived a breathed cakes and the bakery all of my childhood, back then to bake myself was not an interest apart from eating them of course! But here is the thing, baking means more to me than a nice scrummy cake with a coffee or tea, it actually is means no words I can type, it's me, memories, family, past ,passion and above anything my Dad, sadly he's gone but every time I bake, read a recipe book, smell a recipe book.....weird! I'll explain, I collect antique recipe books as an added interest and trawl antique shops etc for kitchenalia etc, these are linked realy for research as my dad sadly never had recipes wrote down from my much loved childhood, not even when I asked him for them could he help me as the vast volumes they as brothers in the bakery used could not be quantified and down scaled, as measures hands were used three scoop handfuls /handful squirts of mixture for that cake etc, also they used massive purpose built ovens so again baking temperatures and times could not be transferred to a home oven. So there you have it my mission began to learn myself and learn from antique recipes and hope to become a credit to my dads memory so when people say oh your Cliffs daughter from Wherry and sons , I can say yes and gladly my dad passed on to me some of his baking talent! "Wherry and Sons" of Louth in Lincolnshire is sadly no more and my dad was one of the second generation ie the sons to run the bakery, an even greater tragedy is all three of the brothers who worked together in there life as bakers and a butcher in this same family business are now gone. I've had nothing but good reports and requests for my cakes and bakes and recipes so I did start to make a hand written cook book, logged findings and found out great tricks, I've sent recipes in to competitions and won, so I think I can bake a bit and decided to set up this blog to log recipes etc, I hope you find it interesting and if you find help of a great recipe to bake and give joy to others then mission accomplished as far as I'm concerned, and if anyone has any hints old recipes please post and let me know, I can never get enough ..... Here are some muched loved photos I have in my kitchen of my Dad and the Bakery and my mum.