PREVIOUS generations of Christmas cooks would have had a tin at their fingertips marked “Lingfords baking powder”. Baking powder was a leavening agent which lightened the texture and increased the ...
At the outbreak of war Moira was at school, but soon after became a shorthand typist at Lingfords, the baking powder producer, in Bishop Auckland. Her pay was 1/- (1 shilling = 5p) a day. In 1943, ...