Marguerite Patten’s “500 Recipes – Fish Dishes. 2nd edition published in 1969, hence the price being either 3 shillings & sixpence or 17 1/2 pence.
Marguerite Patten’s “500 Recipes – Fish Dishes. 2nd edition published in 1969, hence the price being either 3 shillings & sixpence or 17 1/2 pence.
by Bleepblorp44
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Bleepblorp44
To explain the dual price more, in 1971 the UK went over from the Imperial to the Decimal system, in both weights & measures, and money. (A lot of people still use Imperial weights and measures, but Decimal is the primary system taught in schools.)
This meant, for a few years preceeding, goods were priced in both “old money,” and “new money.”
The old system consisted of pounds, shillings, and pence, shortened as L.s.d (from Latin, librae, solidi, denarii) and written as £1 2/3 – one pound, 2 shillings and threepence. The old pound was made of 20 shillings, one shilling was 12 old pennies, so one pound was 240 old pennies.
In new money, one pound was 100 pennies, one shilling was 5 new pence, old pennies were retired completely, and half pennies were retained until the early 1980s.
When I was a kid, shilling and two shilling coins were still legal tender as 5p and 10p respectively. New coins had “1 new pence,” “2 new pence” etc on them. Shillings were withdrawn from circulation when new smaller 5 and 10p coins came in.
This has been old man ramblings, thanks for attending!
Critical-Artist2441
What is the dish shown on the cover? It looks odd to me. The recipes inside look good, though I haven’t had good luck finding smoked haddock here in the U.S. so no kedgeree for me.
Icy-Establishment298
I’m going to make the Canadian one, you know just for the the “halibut”.
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To explain the dual price more, in 1971 the UK went over from the Imperial to the Decimal system, in both weights & measures, and money. (A lot of people still use Imperial weights and measures, but Decimal is the primary system taught in schools.)
This meant, for a few years preceeding, goods were priced in both “old money,” and “new money.”
The old system consisted of pounds, shillings, and pence, shortened as L.s.d (from Latin, librae, solidi, denarii) and written as £1 2/3 – one pound, 2 shillings and threepence. The old pound was made of 20 shillings, one shilling was 12 old pennies, so one pound was 240 old pennies.
In new money, one pound was 100 pennies, one shilling was 5 new pence, old pennies were retired completely, and half pennies were retained until the early 1980s.
When I was a kid, shilling and two shilling coins were still legal tender as 5p and 10p respectively. New coins had “1 new pence,” “2 new pence” etc on them. Shillings were withdrawn from circulation when new smaller 5 and 10p coins came in.
This has been old man ramblings, thanks for attending!
What is the dish shown on the cover? It looks odd to me. The recipes inside look good, though I haven’t had good luck finding smoked haddock here in the U.S. so no kedgeree for me.
I’m going to make the Canadian one, you know just for the the “halibut”.
Sorry, couldn’t resist. Thanks for sharing!