The Jumble Room Legacy, below us here a picture of Lakeland life
caught in all it's glory fingers and thumbs in all the wrong places scuffs on knees yet all polished for what is truly one of Lakelands oldest
and most famous rituals, Grasmere Rushbearing.
Many Years ago at the beginning of the 17th century the yearly event began, a real village affair, the collecting of fresh rushes 
from beside Grasmere's picturesque lake. 
The Rushes would be brought back to the Church and strewn on the uncovered earth floor to keep the dust from rising and to make the place smell a lot sweeter as they still buried people inside the church then! 

For all this hard work you we're rewarded with a slab of gingerbread, a delicious thick warm and gooey sponge made for the first few years by the local ladies in their fireside ovens. A few years later however the job was taken on by Chrissy Hills Ancestors and made on these very premises.   Where although it has passed to others over recent years after Chrissy's father retired, it has returned to be made with love!.
We make and give freely to the village every year over 200 slabs of gingerbread all stamped with the old stamp 
of St. Oswald, what isn't eaten is sold and the money goes to charity, why? because we feel that our heritage is 
waning and tradition is the backbone of our culture and so should be nurtured.
Why the picture ? because it's my wife and your chef ................. a few years ago!

 

 

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