I started cooking family meals myself at about age 11, and have been doing it ever since.
I wished there might have been a bit more depth-not dishing dirt, but a few more tales of her misadventures as a beginning kitchenmaid cook. She also moved around too much, spending little more than a year in most posts until she got married-and in those days married women weren't expected to remain in service unless their husband was the butler or something.Ī light, fast read. No dissing on the great and the good to be found here-Wadlow is the essence of the "family retainers" of 19th and early 20th century fiction, though down in the kitchen she was too far from the action to live vicariously through her employers.
Including some of Flo's cherished recipes and photographs from her life, Over a Hot Stove is a must-read for fans of Downton Abbey.Very short, very sweet. By her early twenties, Flo was in charge of the kitchen and cooked for prime ministers and royalty. Starting as a kitchen maid in London, she soon rose through the ranks and worked at many of England's great houses including Woodhall in Hilgay where she met scullery maid Mollie Moran, author of Aprons and Silver Spoons Hatfield House and Blicking Hall. At the age of sixteen, Flo Wadlow left her family to begin what would become a distinguished life 'in service'. This delightful memoir provides a unique 'Upstairs, Downstairs' account of what life was really like in a bygone era. They should have talked to people like me.' Flo was unimpressed by the TV programmes Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey, saying: 'They have got it wrong.
The Daily Telegraph paid tribute to her with a detailed obituary. The charming memoirs of a 1930s kitchen maid.įlorence Wadlow died on 9th January 2013, at the age ofġ00.
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