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Mythchaser
This month's FT Mythchaser column is about the purported use of wooden fakes of raspberry pips in dodgy jam.
A quick Google will find it rumoured to have happened in Victorian times, or during WW1, or during and after WW2.
Best hit seems to be a ref to Sylvia Pankhurst setting up a jam factory to make the real stuff employing the women who'd been making the wooden pips, in WW1. But of course as soon as you Google her name you just get load sof politics. She mentioned it in a book she wrote in '31, apparently. None of this is proof it was ever actually true.
Anybody know?
A quick Google will find it rumoured to have happened in Victorian times, or during WW1, or during and after WW2.
Best hit seems to be a ref to Sylvia Pankhurst setting up a jam factory to make the real stuff employing the women who'd been making the wooden pips, in WW1. But of course as soon as you Google her name you just get load sof politics. She mentioned it in a book she wrote in '31, apparently. None of this is proof it was ever actually true.
Anybody know?
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Author Pankhurst, E. Sylvia (Estelle Sylvia), 1882-1960 Other titles by Author(s)
Title The suffragette movement : an intimate account of persons and ideals / by E. Sylvia Pankhurst
Publisher London ; New York [etc.] : Longmans, Green and co., 1931
Control Number p3327730
Subject Women--Suffrage--Great Britain
Women--History--Suffrage
Physical description xii, 631 p